“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
“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
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“Never offend people with style when you can offend them with substance.”
Sam Brown (1943) American diplomat
The Washington Post (26 January 1977)
“The secret of success is to offend the greatest number of people.”
George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) Irish playwright
As quoted in Days with Bernard Shaw (1949) by Stephen Winsten
1940s and later
“Offending people is better than no reaction at all.”
Matthew Bellamy (1978) English singer-songwriter
«The world according to Matt Bellamy» — Kerrang! (April 2006) http://mapage.noos.fr/maa3/press/interviews_kerrangAPR06.html
“Don’t go around offending people just because it can be done sitting down.”
Gracie Allen (1902–1964) American actress and comedienne
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.”
Ted Nugent (1948) American rock musician
Interviewed on Hannity and Colmes, June 29 2000
Source: Here Are 13 Other Repugnant Comments Ted Nugent Should Apologize For, February 21, 2014, Eric, Hananoki, Timothy, Johnson, Media Matters for America,
https://www.mediamatters.org/blog/2014/02/21/here-are-13-other-repugnant-comments-ted-nugent/198174
Joe Biden (1942) 47th Vice President of the United States (in office from 2009 to 2017)
1970s <br class="br">Source: Philadelphia Enquirer (Oct. 12, 1975) Alana Goodman, “Joe Biden once said Democrats needed ‘a liberal George Wallace’” https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/politics/joe-biden-once-said-democrats-needed-a-liberal-george-wallace, Washington Examiner (Feb. 7, 2019)
