Browsing Quotes With Tag: offense (5)
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Nobody has the right to not be offended. That right doesn’t exist in any declaration I have ever read.
If you are offended it is your problem, and frankly lots of things offend lots of people.
I can walk into a bookshop and point out a number of books that I find very unattractive in what they say. But it doesn’t occur to me to burn the bookshop down. If you don’t like a book, read another book. If you start reading a book and you decide you don’t like it, nobody is telling you to finish it.
To read a 600-page novel and then say that it has deeply offended you: well, you have done a lot of work to be offended.
Speaker: Salman RushdiePosted: 14 Feb 2015 at 2:40 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Your government does not exist, and should not exist, in order to keep you or anybody else – no matter what color, no matter what race, no matter what religion – from getting your damn fool feelings hurt.
Speaker: Kurt VonnegutSource: If This Isn't Nice, What Is?Posted: 27 Jun 2014 at 2:39 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
“One of the greatest indicators of our own spiritual maturity is revealed in how we respond to the weaknesses, the inexperiences, and the potentially offensive actions of others.”
Speaker: David A. BednarSource: "And Nothing Shall Offend Them," OCTOBER 2006 Conference ReportPosted: 10 Mar 2014 at 4:58 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
“...it ultimately is impossible for another person to offend you or to offend me. Indeed, believing that another person offended us is fundamentally false. TO BE OFFENDED IS A CHOICE WE MAKE; it is not a condition inflicted or imposed upon us by someone or something else.”
Speaker: David A. BednarSource: "And Nothing Shall Offend Them," OCTOBER 2006 Conference ReportPosted: 10 Mar 2014 at 4:56 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
In civilized life domestic hatred usually expresses itself by saying things which would appear quite harmless on paper (the words are not offensive) but in such a voice, or at such a moment, that they are not far short of a blow in the face.
...Your patient must demand that all his own utterances are to be taken at their face value and judged simply on the actual words, while at the same time judging all his mother’s utterances with the fullest and most oversensitive interpretation of the tone and the context and the suspected intention… once this habit is well-established you have the delightful situation of a human saying things with the express purpose of offending and yet having a grievance when offense is taken.Speaker: C.S. LewisPosted: 20 Aug 2008 at 8:26 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment!