I think there's a difference between (a) offending people for its own sake, which I don't necessarily want to do, because some people are good and decent and it would be unkind to upset them simply to indulge my own self-importance, and (b) challenging their prejudices, their preconceptions, or their comfortable assumptions. I'm very happy to do that. But we need to be on our guard when people say they're offended. No one actually has the right to go through life without being offended. Some people think they can say such-and-such offends me and that will stop the offensive words or behaviour and force the offender to apologise. I'm very much against that tactic. No one should be able to shut down discussion by making their feelings more important than the search for truth. If such people are offended, they should put up with it.

~ Philip Pullman

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Anger gets you into trouble, ego keeps you in trouble.

~ Amit Kalantri

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Hate nobody, love everybody including people who offend you.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

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To know if someone can speak offensively or politely, don’t give him poem to recite; don’t give him a song to sing. Just engage him in an argument and you will know it for yourself who he is.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

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Leaders create influence with the clays of criticism others throw at them. They don't take offence, they take corrections.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

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Know the other person’s viewpoint first and then talk. To Talk after comparing it or mixing it with our viewpoint is an offence.

~ Dada Bhagwan

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Offence is like muddy soil; when trapped underfoot, it resists rapid progress. Don't trap offences under your mind, else you resist change! Jesus said Shake the soil off your sandals! What are you waiting for? Shake it off!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

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Why spend your life working on defense when no defense can be made truly impenetrable? Take the offensive – learn the vulnerabilities of the world around you and be the change you wish to see rather than living in constant fear of what may happen to you instead.

~ A.j. Darkholme

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Victims support is everybodies responsibility, let's always lend a helping hand.

~ Chidiebere Prosper Agbugba

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Justice is a necessity for a fair and free society.

~ Chidiebere Prosper Agbugba

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Like some of the rest of us, she never reflected how balefully her evil mood might operate; and that all things work for good in the end, will not cover those by whom come the offenses. Another night's rest, it is true, sent the evil mood to sleep again for a time, but did not exorcise it; for there are demons that go not out without prayer, and a bad temper is one of them--a demon as contemptible, mean-spirited, and unjust, as any in the peerage of hell--much petted, nevertheless, and excused, by us poor lunatics who are possessed by him.

~ George Macdonald

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I mean that repeated offences, even when they secure forgiveness, drive out love. And from that I came to say that one may compel obedience but never love.

~ Maria Mccann

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To become a better you, take note of what gets you offended quickly and never go there or let it come to you.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

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It is gracious to overlook and offence.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

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You may not be able to do anything about how you feel, but you can do something about how you act. People will definitely offend you willing or unwilling by their words and actions...but you can choose to let that offence sink you down or not....

~ Israelmore Ayivor

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A person's true character lies somewhere until after you might have pressed the wrong button without knowing, then you'll realize that there are dogs in human form.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

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The worst ever offence you can commit against your time is to think that “time spent making plans is time being wasted!” Leaders don’t think that way!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

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Regrets won't change anything. Don't Reject yourself. Just Refrain from what you did badly, repent and move on.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

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Some people take offense like it's a limited time offer.

~ Tim Fargo

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

~ Alan Paton

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If a man realizes who he is, he cannot be hurt, humiliated or offended

~ Sunday Adelaja

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The weapons of divine justice are blunted by the confession and sorrow of the offender.

~ Dante Alighieri

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To show resentment at a reproach is to acknowledge that one may have deserved it.

~ Tacitus

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Let us not take offence over small cheese, let things slide off when they don’t really matter, not take things personally, be free to make better use of our energy, to get on with something meaningful instead.

~ Jay Woodman

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It’s our version of a black hole. Just like amply compact mass can distort space and time to cause a black hole, a sufficiently dense breach of discipline in our office causes a black hole that sucks the offender away for eternity, never to spit back!

~ Pawan Mishra

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It is impossible to be truly artistic without the risk of offending someone somewhere.

~ Wayne Gerard Trotman

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