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I like offending people, because I think people who get offended should be offended.


Linus Torvalds

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DERECK WHITTENBURG Good grief, we're getting offended by everything these days! People can't say anything witho...
HILLARY CLINTON People have tried to corner the market on being offended, corner the market on language and corner t...
PATRICE O'NEAL Few people can see genius in someone who has offended them.
ROBERTSON DAVIES I am sorry I offended you - I should have lied.
UNKNOWN I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have.
LEONARDO DAVINCI I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have.
LEONARDO DA VINCI For a long time the people at my shows were sort of the Pantera-tattoo trucker guys, really cool dud...
DAVE ATTELL You never know what people will choose to be offended by.
GILBERT GOTTFRIED I would like to apologize to anyone whom I haven't offended yet. Please be patient, I will get to yo...
ANONYMOUS Don't change your mind just because people are offended; change your mind if you're wrong.
CRISS JAMI I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have.
LEONARDO DA VINCI No matter what I put out, somebody will be offended. I made a video on 10 reasons to smile, and it h...
LILLY SINGH People get addicted to feeling offended all the time because it gives them a high; being self-righte...
MARK MANSON When I hear people talk about collective expulsions, deportations, laagers, as an Italian I am deepl...
GIUSEPPE PISANU Some people looove to feel offended because it makes them feel important. When your only tool is a h...
OLIVER MARKUS MALLOY When people disappoint you never be too offended,for it is only an opportunity for you to verify tha...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) I think that parents only get so offended by television because they rely on it as a babysitter and ...
TREY PARKER AND MATT STONE I do not get offended if you insult me, laugh at me or even make fun of me. I am offended when you d...
SAMEH ELSAYED I don't think it's that controversial. I'm really in favor of legalizing marijuana. I thought people...
MARY-LOUISE PARKER We touch a lot of people, ... This is a world-impacting ministry, and I personally get a little offe...
EDDIE LONG I've undoubtedly offended people, but in the end, I've learned the people that will understa...
CAITLIN STASEY Surely those who should be offended most are the loyal South Park fans who were delivered at best on...
FRANCES GRANT Hypocrites get offended by the truth.
JESS C. SCOTT I? KILL? said Death, obviously offended. CERTAINLY NOT. PEOPLE GET KILLED, BUT THAT'S THEIR BUSINESS...
TERRY PRATCHETT I needn’t be offended every time I have to look at you
NAOMI NOVIK We should assume that the end product can be switched off by any consumer who is offended or frighte...
RICHARD KING I pause here for a moment to explain exactly what I mean when I say that word, just so people can de...
ELIZABETH GILBERT I felt offended. So offended that I planned to ignore for the next few weeks the "friends" who'd sen...
GABOUREY SIDIBE But I won't be offended if someone chooses to violate it.
IMTIAZ AHMED Just because you're offended, doesn't mean you're right.
RICKY GERVAIS The point is that some Muslims are offended by them. I think that people need to apply their own fai...
CAROLYN WASHBURN Being offended by freedom of speech should never be regarded as a justification for violence.
ALAN DERSHOWITZ Why didn't they put the warning on the label? Because of money. Everyone in this courtroom should be...
JOE ESCOBEDO I think anybody who's offended by the name needs to have their head examined. Grow a sense of humor....
DAVID MASON You think I'm daffy?"

"Don't be offended by a snap judgment. It's true of anyone who care...
EDWARD W. ROBERTSON I have offended reputation, A most unnoble swerving.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE In so far as we interact with people each day from dawn to dusk, we shall surely be offended by peop...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH When I first started doing press, one of the things people started pushing was this idea that I'...
EDDIE MARSAN We've reached a point where people are actually afraid to talk about what they want to say, beca...
BEN CARSON Linus Torvalds, the creator of Linux, is an expert of understatement in his leadership of Linux deve...
DAN WOODS And if there were a God, I think it very unlikely that He would have such an uneasy vanity as to be ...
BERTRAND RUSSELL And if there were a God, I think it very unlikely that He would have such an uneasy vanity as to be ...
BERTRAND RUSSELL If we shadows have offended,Think but this, and all is mended,That you have but slumber'd here,While...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Aye, well, I've got my garden.
LIKE I I told my Nike representative, 'Why didn't you guys use me for this?''' Williams said, laughing.
LIKE I On the interception, I was out of bounds,
LIKE I casually made his 'abort black fetuses' argument.
LIKE I I can field my position. If I start worrying about being ready for a line drive too soon that means ...
LIKE I I told him that he played a great game,'' said Falcons quarterback Michael Vick , who like Manning w...
LIKE I I was so concerned with getting the ball out of my hands and not taking the sack, that sometimes I t...
LIKE I I knew I had to throw the ball better,'' Manning said of his poor start.
LIKE I I think the reason that I have that title or that moniker is because people don't know what to expec...
LIKE I You're either ready and prepared to take on the task, or you're not,'' he said.
LIKE I I did not have one butterfly out there today,'' he said.
LIKE I Married to the Mob.
LIKE I Hello you're with Drudge.
LIKE I I don't expect Christian Fundamentalists to reach out to me. They are adamant that homosexuals are i...
LIKE I throw enough shit at the wall and some should stick?
LIKE I I'm not happy, that's all I can say about it,'' he said.
LIKE I He who is accustomed to evil is offended by good.
VIKRANT PARSAI Why take the risk? All you need is one person to be offended. Some people don't want to be reminded ...
BOB LACHKY We, as a team, didn't think he meant anything by it. He's not that kind of person. I personally wasn...
JASON BROWN I'm not offended by dumb blonde jokes because I know that I'm not dumb. I also know I'm not blonde.
DOLLY PARTON We will lower the tax burden on middle-class Americans by asking the very wealthy to pay their fair ...
, "PUTTING PEOPLE FIRST", 1992 When people have invested their identities into clichés, the only counter argument they have is 'be...
STEFAN MOLYNEUX Conservatives can't claim to be "pro Israel" and then get offended by the term "Happy Holidays.”
T. RAFAEL CIMINO I do walk with a bit of a swagger. I do swear a lot. And people are going to be offended by that. Bu...
DANNY DYER I make mistakes, but I have never ever offended Heaven and reason.
KAZERONNIE MAK Now I believe that American people have a deep sense of right and wrong, of fairness and privacy. An...
JOHN CONYERS were offended that she was even prosecuted.
ANDREA YATES ... being offended doesn’t, by itself, make me right.
GARON WHITED It is much more agreeable to offend and later ask forgiveness than to be offended and grant forgiven...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE 'Rome' plays on universal human emotions that hopefully people can relate to. Historians are...
TOBIAS MENZIES I think people who had helped me should really get the recognition.
JONI ANGER Laurie got offended that I used the word "puke." But to me, that's what her dinner tasted like.
JACK HANDY I believe in absolute freedom of expression. Everyone has a right to offend and be offended.
TASLIMA NASRIN A word to those of you out there who have yet to be offended by something I have said: Please be pat...
ANN COULTER Forgive all who have offended you, not for them, but for yourself.
HARRIET NELSON I apologize profusely to those I have offended deeply a million times over.
VANITY I'm not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know I'm not dumb - and I'm not blonde eithe...
DOLLY PARTON Nobody has the right to not be offended. That right doesn't exist in any declaration I have ever rea...
SALMAN RUSHDIE I don't like this reality television, I have to be honest, ... I think real people should not be on ...
GARRY SHANDLING It sounds so nerdy and pathetic, but what I always do on Sunday afternoon is bring my inbox down to ...
MIKE BIRBIGLIA Men don't have to tiptoe around me - you can say anything and I won't get offended.
MICHAEL MICHELE Some were greatly offended, some were terribly amused, but mostly they were shocked that he did it k...
RICHARD HAMILTON He actually came out with an extraordinary deal, considering what he did. I think the jurors could b...
KENT SCHAFFER I'm not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know I'm not dumb... and I also know that I'...
DOLLY PARTON I offer my apologies to those that were offended by my words.
DICK DURBIN I'm always flattered when people on the far Left manufacture a new version of being 'offende...
MIKE HUCKABEE When people do not respect us we are sharply offended; yet in his private heart no man much respects...
MARK TWAIN When people do not respect us we are sharply offended; yet in his private heart no man much respects...
MARK TWAIN Factually, his statement is correct, ... If someone is offended by that, I think that is their probl...
NEAL BOORTZ I'm offended by things and take pathetic little stands against them.
TOM STOPPARD Our weights fluctuate: Some people gain or lose, even friends who are average size. If I would say &...
CHRISSY METZ This hath not offended the king.
SIR THOMAS MORE None is offended but by himselfe.
GEORGE HERBERT There have been so many times when I'm sitting next to someone, and I have no idea who they are....
RILEY KEOUGH I think that in France, we should do like the French people.
MARINE LE PEN You can't take it like it's a country club. I honestly don't think he directed that at everyone. Ins...
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