Zitat des Tages über Vergehen / Offence:
When a Cabinet Minister who is sacked for telling lies is re-appointed, in the face of every constitutional convention, only for the same man to be sacked again from the same Cabinet for the same offence by the same Prime Minister no wonder the public are cynical about politics.
'Tis easier for the generous to forgive, than for offence to ask it.
No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.
I don't mind causing offence when I intend to, but I don't like causing it accidentally.
I think a bishop who doesn't give offence to anyone is probably not a good bishop.
Offence is no longer defence - it's a full-time profession. Everyone is so offended all the time. The new police force that we weren't told about: the moral police. No qualifications, no training, no understanding of actual morality, but they have a degree in the art of being offended.
An honest man speaks the truth, though it may give offence; a vain man, in order that it may.
Almost every desire a poor man has is a punishable offence.
Whenever you're specific with ethnicity or religion, people find reason to take offence.
I'm a great dog fanatic. My own dog died a little while ago and I take it very personally when things die - it's a major offence.
Long hair is an unpardonable offence which should be punishable by death.
It's good to be good at playing defence, but the best defence is a strong offence.
I have the conviction that excessive literary production is a social offence.
Many low-income people in the U.S.A. charged with a crime opt to plead guilty to a lesser offence because they cannot afford to go to trial.
In Australia, we point out a person's weaknesses as a way of saying 'I see you and I accept you'. If you do that with Americans, they instantly take offence.
The theologian considers sin mainly as an offence against God; the moral philosopher as contrary to reasonableness.
How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense, and love the offender, yet detest the offence?
When I was in my 20s it did occur to me that there was something perverted about an attitude that thought that killing somebody was a minor offence compared to kissing somebody.
I fear a permanent Confederation will never be settled; tho the most material articles are I think got thro', so as to give great offence to some, but to my Satisfaction.
It is extremely hard to bring a claim for compensation against the police or the Crown Prosecution Service, even when a person has been charged with an offence and later cleared.