{"quotes":[{"text":"Know the other person’s viewpoint first and then talk. To Talk after comparing it or mixing it with our viewpoint is an offence.","author":"Dada Bhagwan","tags":["offence","person","spiritual","spiritual","viewpoint"],"id":27283,"author_id":"Dada+Bhagwan"},{"text":"The worst ever offence you can commit against your time is to think that “time spent making plans is time being wasted!” Leaders don’t think that way!","author":"Israelmore Ayivor","tags":["cause-trouble","commit","food-for-thought","israelmore-ayivor","lead","lead-people","leaders","leadership","make-a-plan","manage-your-time","myles-munroe","offence","offend","offender","plan-your-life","plan-your-time","planning","preparation","prepare","time","time-management","time-wasted","trouble","troublesome","waste-time"],"id":76473,"author_id":"Israelmore+Ayivor"},{"text":"I think there's a difference between (a) offending people for its own sake, which I don't necessarily want to do, because some people are good and decent and it would be unkind to upset them simply to indulge my own self-importance, and (b) challenging their prejudices, their preconceptions, or their comfortable assumptions. I'm very happy to do that. But we need to be on our guard when people say they're offended. No one actually has the right to go through life without being offended. Some people think they can say 'such-and-such offends me' and that will stop the 'offensive' words or behaviour and force the 'offender' to apologise. I'm very much against that tactic. No one should be able to shut down discussion by making their feelings more important than the search for truth. If such people are offended, they should put up with it.","author":"Philip Pullman","tags":["discussion","offence","truth"],"id":77289,"author_id":"Philip+Pullman"},{"text":"Why spend your life working on defense when no defense can be made truly impenetrable? Take the offensive – learn the vulnerabilities of the world around you and be the change you wish to see rather than living in constant fear of what may happen to you instead.","author":"A.J. Darkholme","tags":["ity","change","choice","choices","defence","defences","defense","defenses","destiny","detemrination","fear","impenetrable","influence","learning","life","lifetime","offence","offense","power","progress","pursuits","status","vulnerability"],"id":80487,"author_id":"A.J.+Darkholme"},{"text":"It’s our version of a black hole. Just like amply compact mass can distort space and time to cause a black hole, a sufficiently dense breach of discipline in our office causes a black hole that sucks the offender away for eternity, never to spit back!","author":"Pawan Mishra","tags":["black-hole","breach","disappearance","discipline","discipline-breach","distort","eternity","mass","offence","offender","space"],"id":118021,"author_id":"Pawan+Mishra"},{"text":"To become a better you, take note of what gets you offended quickly and never go there or let it come to you.","author":"Israelmore Ayivor","tags":["anger","angry","better-you","food-for-thought","forgive","forgiveness","happy","hatred","israelmore-ayivor","note","notice","offence","offend","personal-development","quick-temper","success","take-note","temper","temperament"],"id":139642,"author_id":"Israelmore+Ayivor"},{"text":"Justice is a necessity for a fair and free society.","author":"Chidiebere Prosper Agbugba","tags":["crime","justice","law","offence","society","university-of-sheffield"],"id":141070,"author_id":"Chidiebere+Prosper+Agbugba"},{"text":"It is impossible to be truly artistic without the risk of offending someone somewhere.","author":"Wayne Gerard Trotman","tags":["art","artistic","artistic-endeavor","artistic-expression","artistic-freedom","artistic-substance","offence","offend","offense","offensive","risk"],"id":187484,"author_id":"Wayne+Gerard+Trotman"},{"text":"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!","author":"Israelmore Ayivor","tags":["change","christ","feet","food-for-thought","foot","footwear","forgive","forgive-and-forget","israelmore-ayivor","jesus","jesus-christ","leg","mind","muddy","muddy-soil","offence","offences","offend","offended","progress","progressive","rapid","rapidly","resist","resistance","sandals","shake-off-the-dust","shake-off-the-soil","shoe","soil","think-positively","trap","under","underfoot","waiting"],"id":201343,"author_id":"Israelmore+Ayivor"},{"text":"But to punish and not to restore, that is the greatest of all offences.","author":"Alan Paton","tags":["justice","offence","offences","punish","punishment","restoration","restore"],"id":205953,"author_id":"Alan+Paton"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":21,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}