offensive QUOTES

21 " Volatile expressions of anger and hostility combined with a tendency to blame others often result from feeling shame.... If you are shame-prone, any accusation directed at you, regardless of how mildly it may be delivered, has the potential to make you feel that you have failed or that you are inadequate. Rather than simply admit wrongdoing, you get angry and accusatory in order to hold yourself blameless. Using anger or hostility for self-protection hides your vulnerability and needs. Unfortunately, since most people are repelled by an angry response, this method may be effective.

Your anger may drive away the very people who should know your real feelings, and it may deprive you of the opportunity to allow others to be aware of your needs. Behaving in an offensive or frightening way toward others can cause them to retreat out of fear. But, actually, the fear is your own, which you have turned against someone else in the form of anger. "

― Mary C. Lamia , The White Knight Syndrome: Rescuing Yourself from Your Need to Rescue Others

23 " Prayer is a leader's best friend. Prayer gives her the best offensive strategy in doing the will of God. Prayer should be part of every moment of her life. "

25 " It's true, I did say I wanted girlfriends," I capitulated hesitantly, " but couldn't we start with something smaller and less terrifying? Like maybe spend a weekend at a crack house? I heard those people are very nonjudgmental, and if you accidentally say something offensive you can just blame it on their hallucinations. "

27 " Simply minding one's own business is more offensive than being intrusive. Without ever saying a word one can make a person feel less-than. "

― Criss Jami , Killosophy

29 " Together the magicks swirled and danced around us, invisible but tangible, like an breeze. This wasn't defensive or offensive magic. It wasn't used to gather information, for strategy or diplomacy, or to fight a war against supernatural enemy.
It simply was.
It was fundamental, inexorable. It was nothing and everything, infinity and oblivion, from the magnificent furnace of a star to the electrons that hummed in an atom. It was life and death and everything in between, the urge to fight and grow and swim and fly. It was a cascade of water across boulders, the slow-moving advance of mountain glaciers, the march of time. "

― Chloe Neill , Wild Things (Chicagoland Vampires, #9)

31 " We have gotten so use to humor being something nasty and offensive that we started to believe that was the only way to get a laugh. "

― John Patrick Hickey , Oops! Did I Really Post That

33 " No matter how offensive she's been to me, she continues to act as if she has some sort of God-given right to keep coming back for more favors. "

― Diane Capri , Due Justice (Justice, #1)