#offensive

To treat everyone equally is offensive, because it fails to recognize anyone as an individual.
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— Jarod Kintz

#individual #individuality #offensive #recognition #recognize

People ask me, 'Have you ever considered doing stand-up?' To me it would be less offensive if someone asked me, 'Have you ever considered dental implants?' ↗

— David Sedaris

#asked #considered #dental #doing #ever

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

Never start a sentence with the words 'No offense. ↗

— Gretchen Rubin

#kindness #offensive #politeness #tact #fun

In some respects, inside information is a form of financial steroid. It is unfair: it is offensive; it is unlawful; and it puts a black mark on the entire enterprise. ↗

— Preet Bharara

#enterprise #entire #financial #form #information

Good women always think it is their fault when someone else is being offensive. Bad women never take the blame for anything. ↗

— Anita Brookner

#anything #bad #being #blame #else

Murder is an offensive act. The term cannot be applied legitimately to any defensive act. ↗

— Benjamin Tucker

#any #applied #cannot #defensive #legitimately

In addition to a timeline, I have proposed that U.S. troops be removed from front line combat positions in Iraqi cities and towns, turning over daily security patrols, interactions with citizens, and any offensive security actions to the Iraqis themselves. ↗

— Peter DeFazio

#addition #any #cities #citizens #combat

An idol of the mind is as offensive to God as an idol of the hand. ↗

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

#hand #idol #mind #offensive

I am not a particularly political person, but, as a Tribeca resident, the commodification of September 11th is offensive to me. ↗

— Lena Dunham

#i #i am #me #offensive #particularly