
“I like offending people, because I think people who get offended should be offended.”
2010s, Audience Q&A following interview panel at Aalto University Center, 2012
The Washington Post (26 January 1977)
“I like offending people, because I think people who get offended should be offended.”
2010s, Audience Q&A following interview panel at Aalto University Center, 2012
“Charm is the ability to insult people without offending them; nerdiness the reverse.”
Source: The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms (2010), p. 30
“I’m all for offending people’s religion. I think it should be offended at every opportunity”
1980s–1990s, Barbarians inside the Gates and Other Controversial Essays (1999)
“Don’t go around offending people just because it can be done sitting down.”
Source: How to Become President (1940), Ch. 6 : How not to offend anybody
Context: As a well-known great man would have said if he had thought of it, “Don’t go around offending people just because it can be done sitting down.”
“The secret of success is to offend the greatest number of people.”
As quoted in Days with Bernard Shaw (1949) by Stephen Winsten
1940s and later
“Offending people is better than no reaction at all.”
«The world according to Matt Bellamy» — Kerrang! (April 2006) http://mapage.noos.fr/maa3/press/interviews_kerrangAPR06.html