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[Employees] are often ridiculed and insulted by public officials and frequently convicted in the court of public opinion on unfounded allegations testified to by street lawyers and street spokespersons, if lawmakers do not like the laws that we enforce, that we are charged to enforce, that we are sworn to enforce, then they should have the courage and the skill to change those laws. Otherwise, they should shut up and support the men and women on the front lines. – Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly	Found on FOX News 7 years ago
Someone owes all of these children an apology, they feel like they have been insulted. – Toby Jenkins	Found on CNN 7 years ago
I know there's a tendency to ascribe political motives to all she does. But what you saw yesterday was simply a woman who isn't going to stand by and watch other women be bullied, insulted and demeaned, and more broadly, as you heard her say in her speech, when it comes to standing up for core American values, she's going to speak out. – Nick Merrill	Found on CNN 7 years ago
He was upset, insulted, but I don't think that he thought the price should be what it was. i told the district attorney at the time (of his conviction) that I only thought that O.J. Simpson deserved one to three years in state prison. – Bruce Fromong	Found on CNN 7 years ago
"I won't be wronged. I won't be insulted. I won't be laid a-hand on. I don't do these things to other people, and I require the same from the." The shootist. – John Wayne	added by anonymous 8 years ago
As a Muslim American I ’m just insulted, this is disgraceful that this is one of the mosques -- or the mosque -- that he’s chosen to visit, this mosque is very concerning. – Zuhdi Jasser	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
We are so insulted by this. It is a violation of the very essence of a law that Congress itself enacted, women are dying from maternal complications, teens are getting pregnant and people are dying from HIV-related causes. Lives of Filipino citizens are at stake. – Rom Dongeto	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
We're not home and dry yet, especially since the election is being run in an unfair way, to pull out a candidate on the second round is rather unfair. Today, they're twisting the arm of the French, of the left. Are they going to accept being insulted, despised? We'll see. – The Republicans	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
To pull out a candidate on the second round is rather unfair. Today, they're twisting the arm of the French, of the left. Are they going to accept being insulted, despised? We'll see. – The Republicans	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Don't forget McCain insulted the 'crazies,' which is a blanket insult. – Susan DeLemus	Found on CNN 8 years ago
[Ads in the 1970s] were very blatantly sexist, in those days, there was no consciousness about the fact that this might not be a good idea or that this might be offensive. So [advertisers] were able to get away with an ad for a feminine hygiene spray that said, 'Feminine odor is everyone's problem.' Or a cigarette ad where a woman said, 'My boyfriend told me he loved me for my mind. I was never so insulted in my life.' Or an ad for a construction material, which showed a nude woman with a sort of large derriere and thighs, and the copy read, 'She's built like all our products ... heavy where she has to take the strain.'. – Jean Kilbourne	Found on CNN 8 years ago
He acted out, he insulted everyone he could possibly insult in the courtroom. It raised doubts about his competency. – Brenda Daly	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
It's enough. They humiliated us, they insulted us. We didn't adopt the constitution and the law for them to kill us. – Ramzan Kadyrov	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
But they knew. They insulted us, called us infidels. – Nezahat Eleftos	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
At that time you were insulted by law clerks, excluded from white bar associations and when I was in court, I was lucky to be called Ben, usually it was just ‘boy.’ [But] the judges were always fair. The discrimination of those days has changed and, today, the South is ahead of the North in many respects in civil rights progress. – Benjamin Hooks	added by anonymous 9 years ago
I was asked to memorize what I did not understand; and, my memory being so good, it refused to be insulted in that manner. – Aleister Crowley	added by anonymous 10 years ago
The question that is so clearly in many potential parents minds: Why should we stunt our ambitions and impoverish our lives in order to be insulted and looked down upon in our old age? – Joseph Schumpeter	added by anonymous 10 years ago
I can't say I have a favorite model that I have worked with. Besides there are so many, someone is bound to be insulted I didn't select them, however, I will tell you that Susan Flynn-Doyle will always be my favorite muse. – Robert Bonhomme	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Most men would feel insulted if it were proposed to employ them in throwing stones over a wall, and then in throwing them back, merely that they might earn their wages. But many are no more worthily employed now. – Henry David Thoreau	added by anonymous 13 years ago
He who allows himself to be insulted, deserves to be. – Pierre Corneille	added by anonymous 14 years ago

[Employees] are often ridiculed and insulted by public officials and frequently convicted in the court of public opinion on unfounded allegations testified to by street lawyers and street spokespersons, if lawmakers do not like the laws that we enforce, that we are charged to enforce, that we are sworn to enforce, then they should have the courage and the skill to change those laws. Otherwise, they should shut up and support the men and women on the front lines.

– Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

Someone owes all of these children an apology, they feel like they have been insulted.

– Toby Jenkins

Found on CNN
7 years ago

I know there's a tendency to ascribe political motives to all she does. But what you saw yesterday was simply a woman who isn't going to stand by and watch other women be bullied, insulted and demeaned, and more broadly, as you heard her say in her speech, when it comes to standing up for core American values, she's going to speak out.

– Nick Merrill

Found on CNN
7 years ago

He was upset, insulted, but I don't think that he thought the price should be what it was. i told the district attorney at the time (of his conviction) that I only thought that O.J. Simpson deserved one to three years in state prison.

– Bruce Fromong

Found on CNN
7 years ago

"I won't be wronged. I won't be insulted. I won't be laid a-hand on. I don't do these things to other people, and I require the same from the." The shootist.

– John Wayne

added by anonymous
8 years ago

As a Muslim American I ’m just insulted, this is disgraceful that this is one of the mosques -- or the mosque -- that he’s chosen to visit, this mosque is very concerning.

– Zuhdi Jasser

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

We are so insulted by this. It is a violation of the very essence of a law that Congress itself enacted, women are dying from maternal complications, teens are getting pregnant and people are dying from HIV-related causes. Lives of Filipino citizens are at stake.

– Rom Dongeto

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We're not home and dry yet, especially since the election is being run in an unfair way, to pull out a candidate on the second round is rather unfair. Today, they're twisting the arm of the French, of the left. Are they going to accept being insulted, despised? We'll see.

– The Republicans

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

To pull out a candidate on the second round is rather unfair. Today, they're twisting the arm of the French, of the left. Are they going to accept being insulted, despised? We'll see.

– The Republicans

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Don't forget McCain insulted the 'crazies,' which is a blanket insult.

– Susan DeLemus

Found on CNN
8 years ago

[Ads in the 1970s] were very blatantly sexist, in those days, there was no consciousness about the fact that this might not be a good idea or that this might be offensive. So [advertisers] were able to get away with an ad for a feminine hygiene spray that said, 'Feminine odor is everyone's problem.' Or a cigarette ad where a woman said, 'My boyfriend told me he loved me for my mind. I was never so insulted in my life.' Or an ad for a construction material, which showed a nude woman with a sort of large derriere and thighs, and the copy read, 'She's built like all our products ... heavy where she has to take the strain.'.

– Jean Kilbourne

Found on CNN
8 years ago

He acted out, he insulted everyone he could possibly insult in the courtroom. It raised doubts about his competency.

– Brenda Daly

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

It's enough. They humiliated us, they insulted us. We didn't adopt the constitution and the law for them to kill us.

– Ramzan Kadyrov

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

But they knew. They insulted us, called us infidels.

– Nezahat Eleftos

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

At that time you were insulted by law clerks, excluded from white bar associations and when I was in court, I was lucky to be called Ben, usually it was just ‘boy.’ [But] the judges were always fair. The discrimination of those days has changed and, today, the South is ahead of the North in many respects in civil rights progress.

– Benjamin Hooks

added by anonymous
9 years ago

I was asked to memorize what I did not understand; and, my memory being so good, it refused to be insulted in that manner.

– Aleister Crowley

added by anonymous
10 years ago

The question that is so clearly in many potential parents minds: Why should we stunt our ambitions and impoverish our lives in order to be insulted and looked down upon in our old age?

– Joseph Schumpeter

added by anonymous
10 years ago

I can't say I have a favorite model that I have worked with. Besides there are so many, someone is bound to be insulted I didn't select them, however, I will tell you that Susan Flynn-Doyle will always be my favorite muse.

– Robert Bonhomme

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Most men would feel insulted if it were proposed to employ them in throwing stones over a wall, and then in throwing them back, merely that they might earn their wages. But many are no more worthily employed now.

– Henry David Thoreau

added by anonymous
13 years ago

He who allows himself to be insulted, deserves to be.

– Pierre Corneille

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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