#insult

Insults are the arguments employed by those who are in the wrong. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#insults #those #who #wrong

I have become an adjective. There is something called a Rovian-style of campaigning and it's meant as an insult. One columnist said it consists mainly of throwing mud until it sticks. One prominent blogger described the elements of a textbook Rovian race as fear-based, smear-based and anything goes. ↗

— Karl Rove

#anything #become #called #campaigning #columnist

People think that they just want movies like Pretty Woman, when really they - at least the ones that I know personally - have been waiting for something that doesn't completely insult them. ↗

— Winona Ryder

#completely #i #insult #just #know

When I'm explaining something to you, if I'm being long-winded, and twisty in a non-productive way, I could make you feel vaguely insulted. And you'd have a right to be. ↗

— George Saunders

#could #explaining #feel #i #insulted

If you believe in journalism, you don't insult good journalists. ↗

— Sydney Schanberg

#good #insult #journalism #journalists #you

I just don't believe that you have to come in and insult people when you want to change things. ↗

— Sydney Schanberg

#change #change things #come #i #insult

Whereas Jeremy is just the opposite: always moving because he's never really thinking of anything and the kind of guy you'd worry inviting to a dinner party because he says what he thinks. He can be insulting at times but doesn't mean to be. ↗

— Jason Schwartzman

#anything #because #dinner #dinner party #guy

Not to be loved is a misfortune, but it is an insult to be loved no longer. ↗

— Charles de Secondat

#longer #loved #misfortune

The court has said you are entitled to robust speech on public sidewalks, even insulting speech. ↗

— Jay Alan Sekulow

#entitled #even #insulting #public #robust

Hour after hour, they shouted at me, accused me, insulted me and members of my family. ↗

— Sam Sheppard

#after #family #hour #insulted #me