Offence Quotes

An honest man speaks the truth, though it may give offence; a vain man, in order that it may.

Truly upon mortals cometh swift of foot their evil and his offence upon him that trespasseth against Right.

Everybody will make mistakes, and for some that mistake will rise to the level of being a crime.

Customs and convictions change; respectable people are the last to know, or to admit, the change, and the ones most offended by fresh reflections of the facts in the mirror of art.

Free speech is the bedrock of liberty and a free society. And yes, it includes the right to blaspheme and offend.

Try not to offend someone who writes a weekly column.

If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.

If we wait for threats to fully materialize, we will have waited too long …. The war on terrorism will not be won on the defensive.

A university is supposed to show you ideas that offend you and make you feel uncomfortable,

It is earnestly recommended to all officers and soldiers, diligently to attend Divine Service; and all officers and soldiers who shall behave indecently or irreverently at any place of Divine Worship, shall, if commissioned officers, be brought before a court-martial. there to be publicly and severely reprimanded by the President; if non-commissioned officers or soldiers, every person so offending, shall, for his first offence, forfeit One Sixth of a Dollar, to be deducted out of his next pay; for the second offence, he shall not only forfeit a like sum, but be confined for twenty-four hours, and for every like offence

There are some people who can receive a truth by no other way than to have their understanding shocked and insulted.

When we wish to correct with advantage, and to show another that he errs, we must notice from what side he views the matter, for on that side it is usually true, and admit that truth to him, but reveal to him the side on which it is false. He is satisfied with that, for he sees that he was not mistaken, and that he only failed to see all sides. Now, no one is offended at not seeing everything; but one does not like to be mistaken, and that perhaps arises from the fact that man naturally cannot see everything, and that naturally he cannot err in the side he looks at, since the perceptions of our senses are always true.

How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense, and love the offender, yet detest the offence?

A small unkindness is a great offence.

Justice consists in doing no injury to men; decency in giving them no offence.

It's much easier to make jokes about sensitive issues if there is some dissent, some conflict.

At the drop of a hat, people have begun to take offence. You can't write, paint, make films without worrying about some faction or other whose 'sentiments' will be hurt!

I never saw anything that would qualify as a criminal activity.

I don't think anything's cruel - if you're so sensitive these days that you see cruelty everywhere, unfortunately every time a comedian comes on television, you're going to accuse him of cruelty, because that's the kind of humour that the English people enjoy.

But to punish and not to restore, that is the greatest of all offences.

Whoever shall have blasphemed, swearing by the body or by the blood of our Lord, or in similar manner, he shall be made to kiss the earth for the first offence ; for the second to pay 5 sous, and for the third 6 sous, and for the last offence be put in the pillory for one hour.

… a punishment for blasphemers.

He hates sin more for the indignity of it than the danger.

It is a public scandal that gives offence, and it is no sin to sin in secret.

Those who offend us are generally punished for the offence they give; but we so frequently miss the satisfaction of knowing that we are avenged !.