“I like offending people, because I think people who get offended should be offended.”
Linus Torvalds (1969) Finnish-American software engineer and hacker
2010s, Audience Q&A following interview panel at Aalto University Center, 2012
“I like offending people, because I think people who get offended should be offended.”
Linus Torvalds (1969) Finnish-American software engineer and hacker
2010s, Audience Q&A following interview panel at Aalto University Center, 2012
“Never offend people with style when you can offend them with substance.”
Sam Brown (1943) American diplomat
The Washington Post (26 January 1977)
“You will either offend the world and please God, or please the world and offend God.”
John Hagee (1940) American pastor, theologian and saxophonist
Faith under Fire broadcast (September 12, 2005)
“I’m all for offending people’s religion. I think it should be offended at every opportunity”
Richard Dawkins (1941) English ethologist, evolutionary biologist and author
“Though all men shall be offended because of thee, yet will I never be offended.”
Saint Peter (-1–67 BC) apostle and first pope
As quoted in Gospel of Matthew 26:33 - 35 http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%2026&version=KJV;SBLGNT. Jesus responds: "Verily I say unto thee, That this night, before the cock crow, thou shalt deny me thrice." After this Peter protests: "Though I should die with thee, yet will I not deny thee." These are some of the anecdotes of the Denial of Peter.
Richard Dawkins (1941) English ethologist, evolutionary biologist and author
Lecture at UC Berkeley about The God Delusion, 08/03/2008 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PaJelU29jeI&t=49s <br class="br">Lecture at UC Berkeley (2008)
“The offender never forgives.”
Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778) Genevan philosopher
L'offenseur ne pardonne jamais. http://books.google.com/books?id=uxw20bc2CXMC&q=%22l'offenseur+ne+pardonne+jamais%22&pg=PA51#v=onepage Émile et Sophie, ou Les Solitaires, "Lettre Première" (1781)
“This hath not offended the king.”
Thomas More (1478–1535) English Renaissance humanist
As he drew his beard aside upon placing his head on the block, as quoted in Apothegms by Francis Bacon, no. 22