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People get angry when I insult them justly, but they never care when they offend me unjustly. – Ryan Pack	added by littleking 10 months ago
Love God and do whatever you please, for the soul trained in love to God will do nothing to offend the One who is Beloved. – Saint Augustine	added by Greying_Geezer 1 year ago
What I said was ill-thought-out, and I make no defence for it, but I will clarify that the term used is one that has widely and historically been used colloquially in Brazilian Portuguese as a synonym for ‘guy’ or ‘person’ and was never intended to offend. – Nelson Piquet	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The more integrity you have the more humanity will offend you, the less integrity you have the less offensive humanity will be to you. – Ryan Pack	added by littleking 1 year ago
Be kind to yourself, be kind. Stay out of the circle of toxicity with people if they offend you. Live your life. Be proud of your life. – Anthony Hopkins	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Tolerance will reach such a level that intelligent people will be banned from thinking so as not to offend the imbeciles. – Fyodor Dostoevsky	added by Normando 1 year ago
I also care deeply about people's lives -- the lives of ordinary Ukrainians and the brave Ukrainian military. I can not let them down even if that means saying unpopular truths that offend the politicians or diverge from the popular narrative of the day, i will never give up or give in, and I will do everything I can to see a united Ukraine and a defeated Vladimir Putin. – Victoria Spartz	Found on CNN 1 year ago
General Allen’s counsel is deeply concerned about the serious and damaging ethical breach that occurred with the public release of a search warrant affidavit containing confidential grand jury information, not only did the breach offend longstanding law and Department of Justice policy on the confidentiality of ongoing investigations, but the narrative presented in the affidavit and now made public also is factually inaccurate, incomplete, and misleading. – Beau Phillips	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
I’m sure, you know, he didn’t really mean it, and people make mistakes, but it didn’t offend me at all. – New York	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
I'll tell your viewers and any other viewers : It does not offend me to call me Black. It just doesn't. They're wasting their time, however, they continue to send those very nasty messages. I've never been called the N-word so much in my life. – Fani Willis	Found on CNN 1 year ago
I certainly would never want to offend someone for entertainment with something as stupid as racism. – Joe Rogan	Found on CNN 2 years ago
What is most important to me is that my intentions as an HIV/AIDS advocate be made clear, and that my friends in India understand that it has never been, nor could it ever be, my intention to offend you. – George Pimentel/WireImage -RRB- Gere	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Satire has a very important place. It's meant to be provocative. It's meant to start discussions. You offend very often … it's hard to figure out where exactly the line is, and people have different ideas of where that line is, i think we need to be careful and understand what the role of satire is. – Al Franken	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
When we arrest somebody, especially for a violent crime, and they're out almost immediately and then they re-offend — that wears on the absolute soul of police officers. – Brantner Smith	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
That's what I mean that it drives you crazy, when I first met him, I would spend as much time as I could filling a silence, just to feel comfortable. And the more I jibber-jabbered on, the quieter he would get. And I thought, I don't understand what's happening ! He's looking at me with eyes of confusion. He's quiet. Did I say something to offend him ? And then a day or two later, he would arrive with a note or a little package, saying,' I thought about what you said.' And he would have his response. – Sandra Bullock	Found on CNN 2 years ago
My comments at the event last May included an inappropriate choice of words. I immediately apologized to people who approached me then and I apologize again now. I know how important it is to choose my words carefully. I would never want to offend anyone. – Cal McNair	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
It takes a lot more to offend me. – Whoopi Goldberg	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Look, I do n’t want to offend anyone : Ring girls are the most useless people in martial arts. What is their function ? I have a question. You can show that it is the second round on the screen, i realize that is a history( behind ring card girls). History knows many mistakes. We read history to avoid mistakes of the past in the future. If we look in the history, it says they are useless. That is my personal opinion. Dana White maybe likes it. Maybe you do, too. But my name is not Dana White. My name is Khabib Nurmagomedov. – Jeff Bottari/Zuffa	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Now kids sometimes, you don’t want to offend them, so you tiptoe. – Laurent Landi	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
I don’t know what people got canceled that we wish we had back. Who are they? It’s done for the reasons it’s done for and it helped who it helped, if all that’s going to happen is that we have to be more sensitive in the way that we talk, isn’t that what we want anyway? I’m saying, your job as a comedian is to please the most amount of people with your art. So if you wanna offend somebody, nobody took those words away from you… But don’t call somebody this word when you know it affects all of these people. – Katt Williams	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
This strikes me as a political decision, not a rules-based decision, it sounds like the administration is trying not to offend allies here ... those allies that are going to be most important in containing China. – Thierry Wizman	Found on Reuters 3 years ago
It sounds like the administration is trying not to offend allies here ... those allies that are going to be most important in containing China. – Thierry Wizman	Found on Reuters 3 years ago
If you think the Donald Trump thing in the long term is going to be the winning coalition and not somebody like me that's conservative but doesn't offend people, and doesn't go out and attack and say that you owe me everything, and doesn't incite insurrections -- then we'll be a minority party forever. – Adam Kinzinger	Found on CNN 3 years ago
Your behavior makes me angry, the outcome of your behavior makes me sad, altogether you offend me. – Ryan Pack	added by anonymous 3 years ago

People get angry when I insult them justly, but they never care when they offend me unjustly.

– Ryan Pack

added by littleking
10 months ago

Love God and do whatever you please, for the soul trained in love to God will do nothing to offend the One who is Beloved.

– Saint Augustine

added by Greying_Geezer
1 year ago

What I said was ill-thought-out, and I make no defence for it, but I will clarify that the term used is one that has widely and historically been used colloquially in Brazilian Portuguese as a synonym for ‘guy’ or ‘person’ and was never intended to offend.

– Nelson Piquet

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The more integrity you have the more humanity will offend you, the less integrity you have the less offensive humanity will be to you.

– Ryan Pack

added by littleking
1 year ago

Be kind to yourself, be kind. Stay out of the circle of toxicity with people if they offend you. Live your life. Be proud of your life.

– Anthony Hopkins

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Tolerance will reach such a level that intelligent people will be banned from thinking so as not to offend the imbeciles.

– Fyodor Dostoevsky

added by Normando
1 year ago

I also care deeply about people's lives -- the lives of ordinary Ukrainians and the brave Ukrainian military. I can not let them down even if that means saying unpopular truths that offend the politicians or diverge from the popular narrative of the day, i will never give up or give in, and I will do everything I can to see a united Ukraine and a defeated Vladimir Putin.

– Victoria Spartz

Found on CNN
1 year ago

General Allen’s counsel is deeply concerned about the serious and damaging ethical breach that occurred with the public release of a search warrant affidavit containing confidential grand jury information, not only did the breach offend longstanding law and Department of Justice policy on the confidentiality of ongoing investigations, but the narrative presented in the affidavit and now made public also is factually inaccurate, incomplete, and misleading.

– Beau Phillips

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

I’m sure, you know, he didn’t really mean it, and people make mistakes, but it didn’t offend me at all.

– New York

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

I'll tell your viewers and any other viewers : It does not offend me to call me Black. It just doesn't. They're wasting their time, however, they continue to send those very nasty messages. I've never been called the N-word so much in my life.

– Fani Willis

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I certainly would never want to offend someone for entertainment with something as stupid as racism.

– Joe Rogan

Found on CNN
2 years ago

What is most important to me is that my intentions as an HIV/AIDS advocate be made clear, and that my friends in India understand that it has never been, nor could it ever be, my intention to offend you.

– George Pimentel/WireImage -RRB- Gere

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Satire has a very important place. It's meant to be provocative. It's meant to start discussions. You offend very often … it's hard to figure out where exactly the line is, and people have different ideas of where that line is, i think we need to be careful and understand what the role of satire is.

– Al Franken

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

When we arrest somebody, especially for a violent crime, and they're out almost immediately and then they re-offend — that wears on the absolute soul of police officers.

– Brantner Smith

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

That's what I mean that it drives you crazy, when I first met him, I would spend as much time as I could filling a silence, just to feel comfortable. And the more I jibber-jabbered on, the quieter he would get. And I thought, I don't understand what's happening ! He's looking at me with eyes of confusion. He's quiet. Did I say something to offend him ? And then a day or two later, he would arrive with a note or a little package, saying,' I thought about what you said.' And he would have his response.

– Sandra Bullock

Found on CNN
2 years ago

My comments at the event last May included an inappropriate choice of words. I immediately apologized to people who approached me then and I apologize again now. I know how important it is to choose my words carefully. I would never want to offend anyone.

– Cal McNair

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

It takes a lot more to offend me.

– Whoopi Goldberg

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Look, I do n’t want to offend anyone : Ring girls are the most useless people in martial arts. What is their function ? I have a question. You can show that it is the second round on the screen, i realize that is a history( behind ring card girls). History knows many mistakes. We read history to avoid mistakes of the past in the future. If we look in the history, it says they are useless. That is my personal opinion. Dana White maybe likes it. Maybe you do, too. But my name is not Dana White. My name is Khabib Nurmagomedov.

– Jeff Bottari/Zuffa

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Now kids sometimes, you don’t want to offend them, so you tiptoe.

– Laurent Landi

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I don’t know what people got canceled that we wish we had back. Who are they? It’s done for the reasons it’s done for and it helped who it helped, if all that’s going to happen is that we have to be more sensitive in the way that we talk, isn’t that what we want anyway? I’m saying, your job as a comedian is to please the most amount of people with your art. So if you wanna offend somebody, nobody took those words away from you… But don’t call somebody this word when you know it affects all of these people.

– Katt Williams

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

This strikes me as a political decision, not a rules-based decision, it sounds like the administration is trying not to offend allies here ... those allies that are going to be most important in containing China.

– Thierry Wizman

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

It sounds like the administration is trying not to offend allies here ... those allies that are going to be most important in containing China.

– Thierry Wizman

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

If you think the Donald Trump thing in the long term is going to be the winning coalition and not somebody like me that's conservative but doesn't offend people, and doesn't go out and attack and say that you owe me everything, and doesn't incite insurrections -- then we'll be a minority party forever.

– Adam Kinzinger

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Your behavior makes me angry, the outcome of your behavior makes me sad, altogether you offend me.

– Ryan Pack

added by anonymous
3 years ago

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