{"quotes":[{"text":"Perhaps I am an insensitive rich woman. That doesn't change the fact that you can be downright mean and offensive, Kaladin Stormblessed.","author":"Brandon Sanderson","tags":["kaladin","offensive","opinion","perspective","shallan-davar","spoiled"],"id":30669,"author_id":"Brandon+Sanderson"},{"text":"Whatever thing a man gets quickly enraged about is his idol, and whatever thing he makes his idol becomes his religion.","author":"Criss Jami","tags":["anger","beliefs","conflict","defensive","dispute","frustration","hate","idol","impatient","law","lawlessness","materialism","morality","offended","offensive","opinions","patience","politics","rage","religion","science","short-temper","temper"],"id":32387,"author_id":"Criss+Jami"},{"text":"The Christian God seemed the most offensive to people precisely because he was the most godlike. He was too perfect even to be coaxed by human efforts, and therefore sent his son to do the job.","author":"Criss Jami","tags":["apologetics","christ","christ-jesus","christianity","cross","faith","freedom","god","goodness","gospel","grace","holiness","humility","jesus","jesus-christ","judgment","legalism","love","mercy","offensive","perfection","pride","religion","salvation","sin","spirituality","works"],"id":44121,"author_id":"Criss+Jami"},{"text":"Let me assure you that my intent is not to offend or merely be provocative. I'm simply worried.","author":"Sam Harris","tags":["offensive","provocative","religion","worry"],"id":71000,"author_id":"Sam+Harris"},{"text":"We have no patience with other people's vanity because it is offensive to our own.","author":"Francois de La Rochefoucauld","tags":["people","vanity","offensive "],"id":80646,"author_id":"Francois+de+La+Rochefoucauld"},{"text":"It's not cold in here, you're just dying.","author":"Sarah Silverman","tags":["aging","humor","offensive"],"id":96032,"author_id":"Sarah+Silverman"},{"text":"Each day, each one of us chooses not to do many things that would be legal but offensive to those around us.","author":"Ralph Peters","tags":["day","offensive","things "],"id":177779,"author_id":"Ralph+Peters"},{"text":"Imagine a young Isaac Newton time-travelling from 1670s England to teach Harvard undergrads in 2017. After the time-jump, Newton still has an obsessive, paranoid personality, with Asperger’s syndrome, a bad stutter, unstable moods, and episodes of psychotic mania and depression. But now he’s subject to Harvard’s speech codes that prohibit any “disrespect for the dignity of others”; any violations will get him in trouble with Harvard’s Inquisition (the ‘Office for Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion’). Newton also wants to publish Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica, to explain the laws of motion governing the universe. But his literary agent explains that he can’t get a decent book deal until Newton builds his ‘author platform’ to include at least 20k Twitter followers – without provoking any backlash for airing his eccentric views on ancient Greek alchemy, Biblical cryptography, fiat currency, Jewish mysticism, or how to predict the exact date of the Apocalypse.Newton wouldn’t last long as a ‘public intellectual’ in modern American culture. Sooner or later, he would say ‘offensive’ things that get reported to Harvard and that get picked up by mainstream media as moral-outrage clickbait. His eccentric, ornery awkwardness would lead to swift expulsion from academia, social media, and publishing. Result? On the upside, he’d drive some traffic through Huffpost, Buzzfeed, and Jezebel, and people would have a fresh controversy to virtue-signal about on Facebook. On the downside, we wouldn’t have Newton’s Laws of Motion.","author":"Geoffrey Miller","tags":["alchemy","asperger-s","asperger-s-syndrome","asperger-syndrome","awkwardness","backlash","clickbait","cryptography","depression","dignity","disrespect","diversity","eccentric","equity","expulsion","inclusion","inquisition","intellectual","isaac-newton","laws","literary-agent","mania","moods","mysticism","obsessive","offensive","outrage","paranoid","psychotic","publish","social-media","speech-codes","stutter","time-jump","time-travelling","twitter","universe","unstable","virtue-signal","virtue-signalling"],"id":179572,"author_id":"Geoffrey+Miller"},{"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":"Anger gets you into trouble, ego keeps you in trouble.","author":"Amit Kalantri","tags":["adage","advertisement","aggravation","air-rage","alliterations","amit-kalantri","amit-kalantri","amit-kalantri-writer","anger","anger-management","annoyance","bile","blog","blogging","book-writing","catch-lines","catchphrases","characters","choler","cool","creative-writing","crossness","displeasure","dyspepsia","ego","essay","exasperation","fury","ill-humour","ill-temper","indignation","inspirational","irascibility","irritability","irritation","knowledge","motivational","movie","movie-dialogue","novel-writing","offence","offensive","outrage","philosophy","pique","pride","problem","proverbs","public-speaking","punchline","quotes","resentment-rage","rhetoric","road-rage","sayings","script","script-writing","scriptwriting","self","self-centered","self-centeredness","short-tempered","slogans","social-networking","speech","speechwriting","spleen","story","tag-lines","temper","testiness","tetchiness","trouble","vexation","waspishness","wisdom","wit","witty","wrath","writing"],"id":209564,"author_id":"Amit+Kalantri"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":27,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}