44 quotes about offending follow in order of popularity. Be sure to bookmark and share your favorites!

Be modest! It is the kind of pride least likely to offend.

Jules Renard

I'll not willingly offend, Nor be easily offended; What's amiss I'll strive to mend, And endure what can't be mended.

Isaac Watts

The MPC Computers Bowl, whose roots are based on a humanitarian model of service, would never attempt to discredit, humiliate or offend anyone.

Gary Beck

When sex offenders know they're being watched, when they know they're being monitored, they are less likely to offend again. When they no longer believe they are being monitored or watched, they can be tempted to offend again.

Wade Horn

The needle we have to thread is to have a brand integration that is effective enough to have resonance, but - and it's a big but - subtle enough so that it doesn't offend.

Jonathan Prince

Basically, anything goes, as long as it's not obscene, doesn't offend or present a safety hazard.

Mark Giuffre

No matter how well you know the rules of netiquette, you will eventually offend someone who doesn't.

Don Rittner

This is a revolution, damnit! We're going to have to offend somebody!

Peter Stone

What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.

Salman Rushdie

We don't deliberately set out to offend. Unless we feel it's justified.

Graham Chapman

I want everyone to understand that I never intended to offend anyone.

Fisher Deberry

[Describing himself as a] big-time extrovert, ... The last thing I want to do ... is offend people and ostracize myself.

John Rocker

It was the same person re-offending, ... violence potential is going to grow and at one point or another someone is going to get killed.

Kevin Robinson

They shut us down completely in the second half. Either that or we were just a little more offensive (offending).

Bill Cowell

This is what I call power joking, ... We've gotten very politically correct at corporations and we don't want to make a joke to offend somebody or another group. So make fun of yourself.

Judy Carter

Our view is that defamation should never be a criminal offense. It's not a crime. If in the exercise of free speech you offend someone or defame someone . . . it's a civil matter between the journalist and the person who was allegedly defamed.

Joel Simon

But they have never been aimed at harming or offending people nor will they in the future.

Sigrid Krebs

Of course, you are going to offend somebody. But if your life's work is going to be run into the ground, who benefits from that?

Andrew Sherman

Most offenders, you know, re-offend over and over again.

Donna Roberts

With every company, you walk this line. Who could we offend that we won't be doing business with tomorrow?

Sir Howard Stringer

If a person offend you and you are in doubt as to whether it was intentional or not, do not resort to extreme measures. Simply watch your chance and hit him with a brick.

Mark Twain

We're doing everything we can to make sure that he is not put in a position to re-offend.

Whitney Watson

What we want to do is embarrass the (offending) country.

Mark Konrad

Every acre that is not acquired is going to be developed. We can't afford to offend anyone.

Charles Lee

I don't mean to offend, ... but whites just didn't see that blacks should be included in the history.

Ann Taylor

Never offend people with style when you can offend them with substance.

Sam Brown

I don't set out to offend or shock, but I also don't do anything to avoid it.

Sarah Silverman

A lot of people do not want something that would offend someone. That's why they stay more with landscapes.

Pam Ellis

We have some women travel with us sometimes. We don't want to offend anyone.

Joe Polizzi

It won't offend them a bit.

Bill Conine

Nobody can focus on a growing, widening net, ... We have to focus on those most likely to re-offend.

John Rees

If it's offending anyone, I apologize.

Joe Moretti

Maybe she took it a little too far, but even the African-Americans in attendance didn't seem to mind. I don't think it was racism. Maybe it was ignorance. They just didn't know. They didn't intend to offend anybody.

James Henderson

I don't want to mess up if I'm a linebacker. He just goes on a search and destroy mission to find [the offending player]. ... [But] he's great guy and I love talking to him. He's all about high energy and leadership.

Josh Wilson

It's not designed to offend; the play is not about that.

Michael Hurst

In the U.S., for example, we just take a business card and stuff it in a pocket, but that would offend a lead in China.

Chris Griffin

Is to have a brand integration that is effective enough to have resonance but - and it's a big but - subtle enough so that it doesn't offend.

Jonathan Prince

We don't have a singular kind of bias towards anybody -- Muslims, any ethnicity, race, nobody. But most things that we [and most newspapers] do, especially on the editorial page ... are going to offend somebody.

Bryan Tucker

The secret to success is to offend the greatest number of people.

George Bernard Shaw

I don't think Kinky weighs the risk about who he may or may not offend.

Dean Barkley

I realize the things I said might have been hurtful to many people and I want everyone to understand that I never intended to offend anyone.

Fisher Deberry

It's just frustrating. We have a difficult time making changes. It is a waste of time. They [some board members] always want to have perfect information and not want to offend anybody.

Michael Debell

It is not difficult to govern. All one has to do is not to offend the noble families.

Mencius

Jason is an intense guy, and the older, experienced guys don't care about that -- they'll challenge him. When they believe in a player, they're going to tell him, whether he likes it or not. They're not afraid to offend him, and he likes that, too.

Scott Bonner