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Tabloid stuff just offends. -- William Shatner
Everything that's said against me offends me, whether it's true or not. -- Nick Cave
How many people have had starter marriages? For some reason, mine really offends people. -- Jessica Seinfeld
Literature should not be suppressed merely because it offends the moral code of the censor. -- William O. Douglas
What offends me more than something sexist is something poorly written or unfunny or cliched. -- Jenji Kohan
It is the public scandal that offends; to sin in secret is no sin at all. -- Moliere
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Who to himself is law, no law doth need, offends no law, and is a king indeed. -- George Chapman
I shall stick to my resolution of writing always what I think no matter whom it offends. -- Julia Ward Howe
Sharia is the impetus behind multinational diplomatic efforts to accommodate Sharia blasphemy prohibitions on expression that offends Muslims. -- Frank Gaffney
Time travel offends our sense of cause and effect - but maybe the universe doesn't insist on cause and effect. -- Edward M. Lerner
You work your butt off and somebody says you can't have your record played because it offends them. Tyrants are made of such stuff. -- Richard Pryor
Humor has become so cliche and boring that nothing's funny anymore unless it involves something totally disgusting that offends somebody or makes them feel really uncomfortable. -- Tom DeLonge
What comes out when life squeezes you? When someone hurts or offends you? If anger, pain and fear come out of you, it's because that's what's inside. -- Wayne Dyer
Even to this day, when someone says something derogatory about Boy George, it still upsets and offends me. Part of me will always be quite attached to him. -- Douglas Booth
The don't-ask-don't-tell approach to plot and character that 'The Hurt Locker' relies on to set itself in motion doesn't offend me politically. It offends me as a storyteller. -- Jonathan Dee
I brought this case because I am an atheist and this offends me, and I have the right to bring up my daughter without God being imposed into her life by her schoolteachers. -- Michael Newdow
I speak my mind. If it offends some people, well, there's not much I can do about that. But I'm going to be honest. I'm going to continue to speak my mind, and that's who I am. -- Jesse Ventura
It's easier not to make a particular joke in case it offends. But every joke will offend someone, and I've always believed that the audience is bigger than one person. The danger is that things will become bland. -- David Walliams
The one thing that offends me the most is when I walk by a bank and see ads trying to convince people to take out second mortgages on their home so they can go on vacation. That's approaching evil. -- Jeff Bezos
What offends me the most when I hear criticisms about this so-called Africa bias is how quick we are to focus on the words and propaganda of a few powerful, influential individuals, and to forget about the millions of anonymous people who suffer from their crimes. -- Fatou Bensouda
Young people have this almost romantic attachment to civil rights, liberties, emancipating people from oppression, etc. The idea that such oppression exists in this country offends me, but it's able to be pushed and sold because education in this country is so woefully incompetent and inept. -- Rush Limbaugh
Obviously I don't want to make a film that offends people, but the whole world is so politically correct - I'm not going to not do something because it may be politically incorrect. At some point, the metaphors and allegories break down. They disappear, and you just have science fiction. -- Neill Blomkamp
One of the things that comedy has given me over the years is a really good ability to laugh at myself and to not take things that don't matter too much too seriously. I feel that very little offends me anymore and I'm really grateful for that because I think I was a pretty uptight little kid. -- Anna Faris
I like Jacques Derrida; I think he's funny. I like my philosophy with a few jokes and puns. I know that that offends other philosophers; they think he's not taking things seriously, but he comes up with some marvellous puns. Why shouldn't you have a bit of fun while dealing with the deepest issues of the mind? -- Alan Moore
Respectability offends my taste. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
A gentleman never offends unintentionally -- Oscar Wilde
Too much zeal offends where indirection works. -- Euripides
The zeal of fools offends at any time. -- Alexander Pope
I can't, myself determine what offends another person. -- Paula Deen
Woe to the man who offends a small child! -- Fyodor Dostoevsky
The tongue offends and the ears get the cuffing -- Benjamin Franklin
If being me offends you, maybe I'm not the problem. -- Tsem Tulku
Sometimes God offends our minds in order to reveal our hearts. -- John Wimber
All that is unfair, offends us if it's not beneficial for us -- Luc de Clapiers
Let what offends God offend me, and what God pardons, I pardon. -- Criss Jami
A gospel that in no way offends the sinner has not been understood. -- Mark Dever
That which offends the ear will not easily gain admission to the mind. -- Quintilian
If someone offends you by speech, you must learn to defend yourself by speech. -- Camille Paglia
It deserves and warrants conversation because somebody is saying, 'Hey, this offends me,' -- Darrell Green
The sound of you, it offends me. Abomination, I command you to be silent. -- Thomas E. Sniegoski
Who to himself is law no law doth need; offends none and is king indeed. -- George Chapman
When someone offends you, you can raise your spirits to heights where offenses cannot reach. -- Anthony de Mello
Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards because a refusal often offends, I read somewhere. -- Terry Pratchett
Let not that man presumes to look for mercy from God who offends His Holy Mother! -- Louis de Montfort
Your career will be a painful one. I divine something in you which offends the vulgar. -- Stendhal
Beware of flattery, 'tis a weed Which oft offends the very idol--vice, Whose shrine it would perfume. -- Elijah Fenton
We cannot choose who offends us, but we can choose how to respond when we are offended. -- Moffat Machingura
A valuable friend is one who'll tell you what you should be told, even if it offends you. -- Frank A. Clark
When someone offends me, I think it's a gift from Allah (god). He (Allah) is teaching me humility. -- Ibn Taymiyyah
Whoever turns away from us might not offend us in doing so perhaps, but he certainly offends our followers. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
When the truth offends no one it should come from our lips as naturally as the air we breathe. -- StanisÅ?aw I LeszczyÅ?ski
Nothing so offends the doctrinaire intellectual as our ability to achieve the momentous in a matter-of-fact way, unblessed by words. -- Eric Hoffer
Those who want to be offended don't have the right to try and close down the newspaper that offends them. -- Christopher Hitchens
I'm as against restricting access to drugs as I am to burning books. It offends me in the same way. -- Terence McKenna
If you never encounter anything in your community that offends you, then you are not living in a free society. -- Kim Campbell
Once you take away the struggle for food, clothing and shelter, work is the one four letter word that offends everyone. -- Lenny Bruce
[L]et us work to rid ourselves of our attacks of over-zealousness especially when it offends against respect, esteem, and charity. -- Vincent de Paul
Wyman's overpopulated universe is in many ways unlovely. It offends the aesthetic sense of us who have a taste for desert landscapes. -- Willard Van Orman Quine
The knight departing for new adventures offends his lady, yet she has nothing but contempt for him if he remains at her feet. -- Simone de Beauvoir
We have dignity in Mexico and we have to put a stop to anybody who offends the dignity of Mexico or its institutions. -- Vicente Fox
The arrogance that accompanies merit offends us even more than the arrogance of people who are lacking in merit: since merit itself offends us. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
There is scarcely any fault in another which offends us more than vanity, though perhaps there is none that really injures us so little. -- Hannah More
It's just what they are â?? they're jokesâ?¦most jokes are about Jewish people, rednecks, black folksâ?¦I can't determine what offends another person. -- Paula Deen
[Zwarte Piet] is unfortunate, and just like the early American blackface films, if it offends a segment of the population, it shouldn't be shown again. -- Roger Ross Williams
It's not so much the question that offends me; it's that the people asking it don't seem to respect the moral seriousness of the question. -- Phil Klay
I have thick skin. I'm not a baby. Nothing really offends me. If there's something I think might offend me, I don't listen to it. -- Larry the Cable Guy
The moral spectacle of capitalism still offends, as does American capitalism's implacable insistence that the market determine value even in the political, intellectual, and artistic spheres. -- William Pfaff
Earth Day is the first holy day...and is devoted to the harmony of nature... The celebration offends no historical calendar, yet it transcends them all. -- Margaret Mead
While we often huddle in groups of like-minded people, those with faith blaze a trail that threatens all of our comfort zones. Faith offends the stationary. -- Leonard Ravenhill
Truth offends everyone outside its definitions. But the irony of truth is that the greater its potential for offense, the greater its potential for giving hope. -- David Jeremiah
I think my confidence offends a lot of people, but I think people should learn from it and be inspired by it, instead of finding it offensive. -- Jon Jones
The world is to be carried forward by truth, which at first offends, which wins its way by degrees, which the many hate and would rejoice to crush. -- William Ellery Channing
Ultimately, censorship comes down to taste. What offends me may enlighten you. Do you want me deciding-based on my taste-what you should or should not be exposed to? -- Peter McWilliams
Science offends the modesty of all real women. It makes them feel as though it were an attempt to peek under their skin--or, worseyet, under their dress and ornamentation! -- Friedrich Nietzsche
For most Native Americans, there's no more offensive name in English. That non-Native folks think they get to measure or decide what offends us is adding insult to injury. -- Suzan Shown Harjo
That which offends you only weakens you. Being offended creates the same destructive energy that offended you in the first place- so transcend your ego and stay in peace. -- Wayne Dyer
Bowling is not a sport because you have to rent the shoes. When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops? This title offends all three major religions, and even vegetarians! -- George Carlin
When weâ??re young nothing offends us, except adults telling us what should. Then when we become adults, nothing offends us, except we are offended on behalf of our young. -- Craig Stone
The movie cheerfully offends all civilized notions of taste, decorum, manners and hygiene... is the movie vulgar? Vulgarity is when we don't laugh. When we laugh, it's merely human nature. -- Roger Ebert
Anything you need, you tell him and he'll get it for you. If he offends you in any way, let me know and I'll kill him when I get up. -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
Nobody planned the global capitalist system, nobody runs it, and nobody really comprehends it. This particularly offends intellectuals, for capitalism renders them redundant. It gets on perfectly well without them. -- Peter Saunders
Cable is not bound because people pay for it. It's literally a choice, that's the operative word. If you don't like the language, if cocksucker offends you, then turn it off. -- Robin Williams
Costis bowed stiffly. "I am here to make sure that you stay in bed, Your Majesty, because if this offends you and you order me summarily executed, it is no loss. Politically speaking. -- Megan Whalen Turner
If a person offends you, and you are in doubt as to whether it was intentional or not, do not resort to extreme measures; simply watch your chance, and hit him with a brick. -- Mark Twain
It is hard enough to face the moral law even with the revelation that the divine justice and divine mercy are conjoined. It offends our pride to be forgiven, terrifies it to surrender control. -- J. Budziszewski
There is a common, worldly kind of Christianity in this day, which many have, and think they have enough-a cheap Christianity which offends nobody, and requires no sacrifice-which costs nothing, and is worth nothing. -- J. C. Ryle
Her eyes, mostly cast downward, occasionally flicker upwards to meet his before falling again. She is apologetic for everything, as always, constantly saying sorry to the world, as though as her very presence offends. -- Cecelia Ahern
You're not a morning person, are you? (Simone)I'm a Dream-Hunter/demon. By my very nature I'm nocturnal. That big yellow ball in the sky offends me to the very core of my being. (Xypher) -- Sherrilyn Kenyon

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