#offense

No other offense has ever been visited with such severe penalties as seeking to help the oppressed. ↗

— Clarence Darrow

#ever #help #offense #oppressed #other

Excessive literary production is a social offense. ↗

— George Eliot

#literary #offense #production #social

Strictly speaking, every citizen above a certain level of income is guilty of some offense. ↗

— Max Frisch

#certain #certain level #citizen #every #guilty

Today more Americans are imprisoned for drug offenses than for property crimes. ↗

— George Will

#imprisoned #more #offenses #property #than

If I was going to play offense, I'd love to play running back. In high school I played quarterback and wide receiver, but I wouldn't mind running over some folks. ↗

— Ronnie Lott

#folks #going #high #high school #i

I've analyzed the best I can... and I have not found an impeachable offense, and therefore resignation is not an acceptable course. ↗

— Richard M. Nixon

#analyzed #best #course #found #i

Old friends become bitter enemies on a sudden for toys and small offenses. ↗

— Robert Burton

#bitter #friends #offenses #old #old friends

When a man has a gift in speaking the truth, brute aggression is no longer his security blanket for approval. He, on the contrary, spends most of his energy trying to tone it down because his very nature is already offensive enough. ↗

— Criss Jami

#approval #authority #blanket #brute-force #brutes

To apologize is to lay the foundation for a future offense. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#foundation #future #lay #offense

Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it. ↗

— Rene Descartes

#cannot #high #i #me #my soul