Zitat des Tages über Beleidigen / Insult:
Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
Don't call my lyrics poetry. It's an insult to real poets.
The vanity of men, a constant insult to women, is also the ground for the implicit feminine claim of superior sensitivity and morality.
Everyone's so timid and afraid to insult anybody, but in the end, it's like we're all trying to please everyone. In the end, we please no one.
We criticize, copy, patronize, idolize and insult but we never doubt that the U.S. has a unique position in the history of human hopes.
Even if you believe a creator god invented the laws of physics, would you so insult him as to suggest that he might capriciously and arbitrarily violate them in order to walk on water, or turn water into wine as a cheap party trick at a wedding?
The master class seldom lose a chance to insult a woman who has the ability for something besides service to his lordship.
The days when the words 'Hollywood actor' framed Ronald Reagan like bunny fingers as an ID tag and an implied insult seem far-off and quaint: nearly everybody in politics - candidate, consultant, pundit, and Tea Party crowd extra alike - is an actor now, a shameless ham in a hoked-up reality series that never stops.
Sometimes I think I might insult people by being openly flirtatious, then snatching it back.
There is no great invention, from fire to flying, which has not been hailed as an insult to some god.
A stiff apology is a second insult... The injured party does not want to be compensated because he has been wronged; he wants to be healed because he has been hurt.
Granted, everybody is different, but I think it's real important to know all the people that you are around, and how they operate their history, and things like that. You know where they are coming from a little bit, and you don't insult them, or take something for granted.
Sometimes being old is used as an insult, which is bizarre because, if you're lucky, that's literally going to happen to you. It's a strange thing to gloat about: being born recently.
The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.
An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.
Every day, women move mountains. It is an insult to have an international women's day.
Not to be loved is a misfortune, but it is an insult to be loved no longer.
If I had simply wanted to trade on an insult to Islam, I could have done it in a sentence rather than writing a 250,000-word novel, a work of fiction.
There's a difference between an actual insult and a friendly jab. So I don't think I'm offensive onstage.
Violent predators are not like the rest of us. They kill for fun, for sport, for the sake of it. To compare them to animals is an insult to animals. To expect that we can rehabilitate them assumes a will to change.
If the Democrats want to insult women by making them believe that they are helpless without Uncle Sugar coming in and providing for them a prescription each month for birth control because they cannot control their libido or their reproductive system without the help of the government, then so be it.
I think the biggest insult, the worst way you can offend a Mexican, is to insult their mother. A mother is the most sacred thing in life.
Oppression is more easily endured than insult.
If someone does something illegal on Twitter - like incite hatred, or make racist remarks, or threaten to rip someone's intestines out if they insult Justin Bieber - then there has to be some way of censuring them.
But I would never insult the people that love this music and I would never insult the blessing of music in my life and I would never insult myself by playing uninspired music.
If you can't ignore an insult, top it; if you can't top it, laugh it off; and if you can't laugh it off, it's probably deserved.
I won't insult your intelligence by suggesting that you really believe what you just said.
I haven't ever found any great writing on that wonderful and often unappreciated art form, the insult.
To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult.
The causes of the China Incident were the exclusion and insult of Japan throughout China, the exclusion of Japanese goods, the persecution of Japanese residents in China, and the illegal violation of Japanese rights.
The private citizen, beset by partisan appeals for the loan of his Public Opinion, will soon see, perhaps, that these appeals are not a compliment to his intelligence, but an imposition on his good nature and an insult to his sense of evidence.
Taste every fruit of every tree in the garden at least once. It is an insult to creation not to experience it fully. Temperance is wickedness.
If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion.
Complaining is an insult to God.
I love women. I'm trying to do beautiful things with them. I'm not trying to insult them. My life is not about that.
To force a man to pay for the violation of his own liberty is indeed an addition of insult to injury.