Liberals claim to want to give a hearing to other views, but then are shocked and offended to discover that there are other views.
– William F Buckley Jr
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- Having a hearing is educational. Having a hearing with television cameras is useful. Having a hearing with two rows of television cameras is Heaven. – Tim Wirth
- I’m not offended until you think I’m offended. – Criss Jami
- He who closes his ears to the views of others shows little confidence in the integrity of his own views. – William Congreve
- Those who are easily shocked should be shocked more often. – Mae West
- A claim that event horizons exist is like someone’s claim to be immortal: You would have to wait until the end of time to confirm the claim. – Seth Lloyd
- Innovative thinkers are explorers and synthesizers of new world views or future views of the world. – Pearl Zhu
- Om meditation eliminates rigid and fixed views about the world. It creates a spacious, flexible and open views about the world. – Amit Ray
- A century ago, people laughed at the notion that we were descended from monkeys. Today, the individuals most offended by that claim are the monkeys. – Jacob M Appel
- I froze, shocked. (And don’t try to claim that you did anything different the first time a government bureaucrat pulled a gun on you.) – Brandon Sanderson
- The surface of learning is hearing what your ears aren’t prepared to hear, and the core of learning is hearing what your ears don’t want to hear. – Criss Jami
- What’s more insane? Hearing imaginary voices? Or not hearing the real ones? – Forrest Carr
- The turning point for effective communication is actually hearing what is being said, rather than hearing what you want to hear instead. – Dannye Williamsen
- The Holiness of God is something more and other than moral perfection: His claim upon us is something more and other than the claim of moral duty. – CS Lewis
- To claim that one can never live a positive life with a negative mind is a very negative claim to make! – Criss Jami
- I don’t claim to know everything, Wally. I only claim that everything can eventually be known. – SA Tawks
- There are some days we can claim and there are other days that claim us. – Kamand Kojouri
- Mother, you have my father much offended. – William Shakespeare
- If you got on your knees to give thanks for the undeserved kindness and mercy in your life, you would be shocked by how rich you truly are. – Mensah Oteh
- Decent people should ignore politics, if only they could be confident that politics would ignore them – William F Buckley Jr
- Human progress is achieved by taking exact measurements. – William F Buckley Jr
- Human progress is achieved by taking exact measurements. – William F Buckley Jr
- For people who like that sort of thing, that’s the sort of thing they like. – William F Buckley Jr
- I would rather be governed by the first 2000 people in the Manhattan phone book than the entire faculty of Harvard. – William F Buckley Jr
- Liberals feel unworthy of their possessions. Conservatives feel they deserve everything they’ve stolen. – Mort Sahl
- Enraging liberals is simply one of the more enjoyable side effects of my wisdom. – Rush Limbaugh
- American liberals today are hesitant to speak out against the denial of rights that is perpetrated in the name of Islam. – Ayaan Hirsi Ali
- Conservatives believe in equality of opportunity. Liberals believe in equality of outcome. – Mike Rosen
- ..Liberals see racism where it doesn’t exist, fabricate it when they can’t find it and ignore it within their own ranks. – Michelle Malkin
- The moral world has no particular objection to vice, but an insuperable repugnance to hearing vice called by its proper name. – William Makepeace Thackeray
- The art of conversation is the art of hearing as well as of being heard. – William Hazlitt
- Kicking a police car? Really?’ Caleb shrugged. ‘Car offended me. It was sitting right where I wanted to stand. What would you do? – Sherrilyn Kenyon
- Don’t go getting offended my friend, I have much worse things to say to you.-Ad’Dam, Journey from Atremes – Riley Amos Westbrook
- It is useless to fight fire with fire. When you’re offended, it is instinctive to want to fight back in anger. – Auliq Ice
- She left me, offended at my want of sympathy, and thinking, no doubt, that I envied her. I did not – at least, I firmly believed I did not. – Anne Bront
- Gratitude is a Beautiful Virtue but don’t get offended when ingratitude is shown or your good deeds. – Jaachynma NE Agu
- I would rather get offended than defending myself, though if it isn’t my mistake. Just to see that beautiful smile on your face. – Naveed baji
- Cora, you can turn around now. Your virgin eyes won’t be offended any longer. – Franca Storm
- My sexuality hasn’t offended you. Me being me without your permission did. – TTaylor
- I fear no bad angel, and have offended no good one. – Horace Walpole
- I have offended God and mankind because my work didn’t reach the quality it should have. – Leonardo da Vinci