Phil Klay Quotes

We are tired of having our integrity impugned. We are tired of having our sincerity questioned. We are tired of having our intelligence insulted.

I can cross the line when I'm making fun of people.

I'M OFFENDED, because of the insulting comments I've seen that are not only insensitive but dismissive to the painful experiences of others.

Moral contempt is a far greater indignity and insult than any kind of crime.

… a controlled disrespect for authority is essential to a scientist.

If you expect me to buy something where all I can sense is carelessness, actually I think that is personally offensive.

There is nothing that people bear more impatiently, or forgive less, than contempt: and an injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.

I feel very strongly about my country and stronger still about people who abuse my country.

I'm honestly offended whenever someone says I'm being harsh.

The widespread shame of motherhood is criminal, and it needs to stop. The world can never improve if you disrespect the people that bring life.

Where I think people are being offensive to religion in this country - whichever religion that might be, but particularly the one I and many other Christians subscribe to - well, we will just call it out, and we will demand the same respect that people should provide to all religions.

Rudeness is not having fun, and if it is, it's at the expense of another person.

I'm just not going around disrespecting people.

I don't appreciate people taking shots and joking at my expense, when I don't do that to anybody else.

I was a kitchen porter for an hour at the Bank of England when I was 18. In the cafe, someone clicked their fingers and shouted, 'Boy, come and clear my table.' I walked out.

What harm has he ever done to you?' 'You know what harm he's done me. He offended me with his terrible taste.

I know of people whose actions and words I admire and respect. Some are called "intellectuals," some are not.

If all good, respectable people had one face, I'd spit in it.

There is no outward sign of true courtesy that does not rest on a deep moral foundation.

There are so many ways of being despicable it quite makes one’s head spin. But the way to be really despicable is to be contemptuous of other people’s pain.

Taro taught me that people respect spirit, but even cowards don't respect cowards.

With girls I get no respect. A belly dancer told me I turned her stomach.

The more seriously you take your growth, the more seriously your people will take you.

Oh sirs, deal with sin as sin, and speak of heaven and hell as they are, and not as if you were in jest.

There are always gonna be people that are gonna be offended about something. This will never end.