The clear problem of the outlawing of insult is that too many things can be interpreted as such. Criticism, ridicule, sarcasm, merely stating an alternative point of view to the orthodoxy, can be interpreted as insult.
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Related Be kind. We never know what people are going through. Give grace and mercy because one day your circ... GERMANY KENT [Intelligent design] does not provide any natural explanation that can be tested, ... are an insult ... FRANCISCO AYALA I'm glad I made a piece of art that can be interpreted so widely. Art is always interpreted subj... PAULA COLE There is no plausible theory under which the record of the Pentagon Papers can be interpreted as rel... NOAM CHOMSKY Be nobel. Be the light as if you are the source of life. DEBASISH MRIDHA Kindness is universal. Sometimes being kind allows others to see the goodness in humanity through yo... GERMANY KENT If you take myth and folklore, and these things that speak in symbols, they can be interpreted in so... DIANA WYNNE JONES The overintellectualization of surrealism can be a bromide. A dream interpreted is a deflated dream. GRAHAM JOYCE My Lord, I find thy face apelike and thy form misshapen. Thy beard, moreover, is an offense against ... DAVID EDDINGS I don't know if I have a favorite color. KATE MIDDLETON It's very special having a new little girl. KATE MIDDLETON The slight that can be conveyed in a glance, in a gracious smile, in a wave of the hand, is often th... JULIA KAVANAGH If a mark of affection can sometimes be taken for an insult, perhaps the gesture of love is not univ... KIM THúY I do sometimes accuse people of ignorance, but that is not intended to be an insult. I'm ignoran... RICHARD DAWKINS Nothing is ever as good or as bad as it appears to be. JEFFREY FRY The words 'respect for private and family life, privacy of the home' as innocuous sounding as they a... SHIRLEY RICHARDS So what we're showing in our numbers (is that the) bilateral deficit with China should really be int... FRED BERGSTEN Alcoa's earnings appears to resemble a biblical scripture because it can be interpreted in many ways... SANFORD BERNSTEIN Indonesia is also a democracy that upholds freedom of expression, but such freedom cannot be used as... YURI THAMRIN Reach out and help others. If you have the power to make someone happy, do it. Be a vessel, be the c... GERMANY KENT We are continuing to see a number of signs that could be interpreted with the appropriate caveats as... JOHN CHAMBERS Even in this context, I am not going to get too uptight about it. When (officials such as Griffin) m... STEPHEN HESS 'Noah' is an insult to Bible-believing Christians, an insult to the character of Noah and, m... KEN HAM The naturalists of yore esteemed the ocean to be a treasury of wonders, and sought therein for monst... EDWARD FORBES I am sorry that it has been interpreted as going beyond that point, KEN SALAZAR Because of the reduced U.N. presence on the border, any incident could be interpreted as a provocati... MATT BRYDEN The government has interpreted the peacefulness of the movement as a weakness: the people's non-viol... NELSON MANDELA To a lot of people that would be an insult. CRAIG FUGATE Everything we say has metamessages indicating how our words are to be interpreted: Is this a serious... DEBORAH TANNEN Things which restrict the common are to be interpreted rigidly LATIN PROVERB The strengthening of our statehood is, at times, deliberately interpreted as authoritarianism. VLADIMIR PUTIN The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line. W.E.B. DU BOIS Aside from the effects of high oil prices, growth in imports in general can be interpreted as a sign... KOJI KOBAYASHI The unfortunate thing is that, sometimes, we slip, but, fortunately, consciously or unconsciously, w... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH No one can be as calculatedly rude as the British, which amazes Americans, who do not understand stu... PAUL GALLICO A fatwa is a religious edict. Such edicts bind only those who seek to follow the Imam issuing them b... MAAJID NAWAZ Easter tells us that life is to be interpreted not simply in terms of things but in terms of ideals. CHARLES M. CROWE ...this cryptic game of hide-and-seek is what makes it one of the greatest historical mysteries. So ... BRAD MELTZER A patient's passivity must not be unilaterally interpreted as lack of motivation, resistance, lack o... MARSHA M. LINEHAN A lie is an affront to the soul, as well as an insult to the intelligence of the person to whom one ... JUDITH MCNAUGHT How can I believe the people that say women have equal rights? When the worst insult a man can be ca... LAURA BATES I think you have to be crazy not to want to work on the Joker! I can't think of many characters,... LEE BERMEJO The two men had a conversation. Brief, cryptic, to the point. As though they had exchanged numbers a... ARUNDHATI ROY We feel that the message of this poster can be interpreted as if we are a racist company. I don't kn... CHARLOTTE SIMONSEN God has the capacity to look at the world through two lenses. When God looks at a painful or wicked ... JOHN PIPER Criticizing these reporters is like booing at the special olympics. TRIUMPH THE INSULT DOG The one measure of true love is: you can insult the other SLAVOJ ŽIžEK Life is short, and that's why, I don't test people; because we all fail tests sometimes, but that is... C. JOYBELL C. To be just, that is to say, to justify its existence, criticism should be partial, passionate and po... CHARLES BAUDELAIRE A play, after all, is a mystery. There's no narration. And as soon as there's no narration, ... MIKE NICHOLS If the inversion is to persist or deepen, then it may be interpreted as a real bear sign. JASON SCHENKER What I like doing is imagery that can be interpreted in any particular way by the person who wears i... BELLA FREUD Testimony demands to be interpreted because of the dialectic of meaning and event that traverses it. PAUL RICOEUR To call you excrement would be an insult to the product of my bowels. CLIVE BARKER She washed he hands,then looked at my side. "you haven't even had it stitched?" She said incredulous... PATRICK ROTHFUSS Ugly. Is irrelevant. It is an immeasurable insult to a woman, and then supposedly the worst crime yo... MARGARET CHO In common use almost every word has many shades of meaning, and therefore needs to be interpreted by... ALFRED MARSHALL How it is looked at and interpreted comes from one's own mind, and we cannot control how people thin... SHARON FISHER A dog is not almost-human, and I know of no greater insult to the canine race than to describe it as... JOHN HOLMES She said 'Over my dead body!' so I took her at her word. DIANA WYNNE JONES The end of the world is a strange concept. The world is always ending, and the end is always being a... NEIL GAIMAN What is the Other?" they ask. The Other is the one who taught me whatI should be like, but not ... PAULO COELHO From a technical point of view these elections are as sound as they can be under the circumstance. CARINA PERELLI O me, you juggler, you canker-blossom, you thief of love! WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained. QUEEN ELIZABETH II Like all best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and... QUEEN ELIZABETH II My husband has quite simply been my strength and stay all these years, and I owe him a debt greater ... QUEEN ELIZABETH II It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime. QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have to be seen to be believed. QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have in sincerity pledged myself to your service, as so many of you are pledged to mine. Throughou... QUEEN ELIZABETH II I hope that tomorrow we can all, wherever we are, join in expressing our grief at Diana's loss, ... QUEEN ELIZABETH II I myself prefer my New Zealand eggs for breakfast. QUEEN ELIZABETH II The British constitution has always been puzzling and always will be. QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have behind me not only the splendid traditions and the annals of more than a thousand years but t... QUEEN ELIZABETH II To what greater inspiration and counsel can we turn than to the imperishable truth to be found in th... QUEEN ELIZABETH II What were once only hopes for the future have now come to pass; it is almost exactly 13 years since ... QUEEN ELIZABETH II First, I want to pay tribute to Diana myself. She was an exceptional and gifted human being. In good... QUEEN ELIZABETH II I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something e... QUEEN ELIZABETH II To all those who have suffered as a consequence of our troubled past I extend my sincere thoughts an... QUEEN ELIZABETH II Grief is the price we pay for love. QUEEN ELIZABETH II The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its ... QUEEN ELIZABETH II At its heart, engineering is about using science to find creative, practical solutions. It is a nobl... QUEEN ELIZABETH II At Christmas, I am always struck by how the spirit of togetherness lies also at the heart of the Chr... QUEEN ELIZABETH II For many, Christmas is also a time for coming together. But for others, service will come first. QUEEN ELIZABETH II The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses w... QUEEN ELIZABETH II I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your s... QUEEN ELIZABETH II Therefore I am sure that this, my Coronation, is not the symbol of a power and a splendor that are g... QUEEN ELIZABETH II We lost the American colonies because we lacked the statesmanship to know the right time and the man... QUEEN ELIZABETH II Madam President, speaking here in Dublin Castle it is impossible to ignore the weight of history, as... QUEEN ELIZABETH II These wretched babies don't come until they are ready. QUEEN ELIZABETH II I know of no single formula for success. But over the years I have observed that some attributes of ... QUEEN ELIZABETH II The events that I have attended to mark my Diamond Jubilee have been a humbling experience. It has t... QUEEN ELIZABETH II In remembering the appalling suffering of war on both sides, we recognise how precious is the peace ... QUEEN ELIZABETH II Like all the best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters... QUEEN ELIZABETH II No one who knew Diana will ever forget her. Millions of others who never met her, but felt they knew... QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have been aware all the time that my peoples, spread far and wide throughout every continent and o... QUEEN ELIZABETH II I've always wanted the IQ of a rock. No, wait. That would be an insult to the rock. JULIE KAGAWA In line with international law, only the U.N. Security Council could sanction the use of force again... VLADIMIR PUTIN Sometimes the past seems too big for the present to hold. CHUCK PALAHNIUK For this, be sure, tonight thou shalt have cramps, Side-stitches that shall pen thy breath up. ... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
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BROOKS ATKINSON The virtue of the camera is not the power it has to transform the photographer into an artist, but t... BROOKS ATKINSON I told myself, 'When I grow up, I want to make pictures that can inspire and nourish people.'... BILL ATKINSON In every age 'the good old days' were a myth. No one ever thought they were good at the time... BROOKS ATKINSON It will be very hard for anyone to pigeonhole Allen as belonging to any one faction of the Republica... FRANK ATKINSON George Allen has often been compared over the course of his career, dating back to his term as gover... FRANK ATKINSON To these men and women we humbly bow, to the generations who followed and carried the pulpit and tea... FRANK ATKINSON This is nothing short of a huge coup to have the president come in right before the election. FRANK ATKINSON When I charged a round in the chamber, he got down real fast, FRANK ATKINSON It's just so much like Iraq, it's not funny, ... except for all the water, and they speak English. FRANK ATKINSON We're going to have to buy machines for 335 precincts. But before we do, our goal was to get as many... JANICE ATKINSON If we are able to conduct it by mail, there would be no polling locations. Running parallel election... JANICE ATKINSON Chances are not great that all counties in California, including ours, will be able to get enough ma... JANICE ATKINSON To be honest, we've had no complaints from people with disabilities about being unable to vote with ... JANICE ATKINSON Time only flies when you're having fun and dying, it's flying right now and I'm definitely not the f... JACOB ATKINSON Is it just me or do we seem to ignore the intelligent people in politics and focus on the radical id... 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