Offence Quotes

“Offence is like muddy soil; when trapped underfoot, it resists rapid progress. Don't trap offences under your mind, else you resist change! Jesus said "Shake the soil off your sandals"! What are you waiting for? Shake it off!”

“Systems of retributive justice work well as long as they are proportional. However, in complex societies, where the State is the arbiter of justice, proportionality may break down: offences created by the elite few become offences against the entire community.”

“But to punish and not to restore, that is the greatest of all offences.”

“Podtyagin considers whether to take offence or not -- and decides to take offence.”

“It is gracious to overlook and offence.”

“Apologize: To lay the foundation for a future offence.”

“A work of art is somehow organic, and to slash a painting or smash a statue is not just an offence against property: it is an offence against life.”

“I mean that repeated offences, even when they secure forgiveness, drive out love. And from that I came to say that one may compel obedience but never love.”

“Offence is an event, offended is a decision. Offence and offended we have to live through it but to stay offended? To live in that place denies the very nature of the salvation that you claimed to have received.”

“Know the other person’s viewpoint first and then talk. To Talk after comparing it or mixing it with our viewpoint is an offence.”