Top 118 Affront Quotes & Sayings
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Last updated on November 8, 2024.
Modern slavery is a barbaric crime. Each and every case is a both a tragedy and an affront to our values of decency and kindness.
I have always hated flying. The idea of it is an affront to nature. People are meant to stay on the ground.
Waking up was a daily cruelty, an affront, and she avoided it by not sleeping.
If you're just grinding up hamburger at McDonald's, I see that as a bit of an affront to living things. You're not really honoring the life.
Bloodletting on my premises that I ain't approved I take as a f***ing affront. It puts me off my feed.
An Affront to the Rule of Law and to the Constitution Itself
I cannot bear assaults of any kind, and it seems to me that the Beatles essentially were out to affront and to assault.
The filibuster is an affront to commonly understood democratic norms, but then so is the Senate.
I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would be an affront to your intelligence.
It is illegal for the CIA to spy on Americans and an affront to our Republic to spy on the Senate.
Tolerance should, strictly speaking, be only a passing mood; it ought to lead to acknowledgment and appreciation. To tolerate a person is to affront him.
Religion is an affront to liberalism because it dares suggest it's not all about you.
He's never quite got the trick of conversation, tending to hear in dissenting views, however mild, a kind of affront, an invitation to mortal combat.
The first and last lesson of religion is, "The things that are seen, are temporal; the things that are unseen, are eternal." It puts an affront upon nature.
I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would affront your intelligence.
A lie is an affront to the soul, as well as an insult to the intelligence of the person to whom one lies.
Terrorist groups share an agenda of authoritarianism, misogyny, and intolerance. They are an affront to the common values encapsulated in the U.N. Charter and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
The hijab, or sikh turban, or Jewish skullcap are all explicit symbols, but they do not represent a threat or affront to others, and have no bearing on the competence, skills and intelligence of a person.
Scientific truth is too beautiful to be sacrificed for the sake of light entertainment or money. Astrology is an aesthetic affront. It cheapens astronomy, like using Beethoven for commercial jingles.
These monstrous criminals have demonstrated a vile and brutal affront against humanity.
Don't forget any affront done to you and to all our people, the time of revenge will come and must be put to good use.
Only when painting isn't painting can there be an affront to modesty.
Every aspect of Obamacare is an affront to the very founding of this country.
Unrequited love is not an affront to man but raises him.
Beauty seems to strike some people as a personal affront.
Old, that's an affront no woman can well bear.
And we need a full affront on an energy crisis that is real in California and looms for other parts of our country if we don't move quickly.
And old affront will stir the heart Through years of rankling pain.
A moral, sensible, and well-bred manWill not affront me, and no other can.
Perjury before Congress is perjury to the American people and an affront to the fundamental principles of our republic and the rule of law. Such behavior cannot be tolerated.
Is it courage in a dying man to go, in weakness and in agony, to affront an almighty and eternal God?
Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine is a gross violation of that nation's sovereignty and an affront to the international community.
The idea that I hear from the right wing in the last few decades, is that any sort of sacrifice is an affront to my liberty as an American to be a pig the way I want to.
The biggest affront to any audience is if you feel like someone took something you love and is selling it out.
Our sex still strikes an awe upon the brave,
And only cowards dare affront a woman.
An American soldier, Saddam in his sights, has a picture of a naked, buxom woman on his dashboard, an obvious affront to Muslim sensibilities.
Wall Street has been beset with problems. The cycle of greed and personal aggrandizement and lifestyle grandstanding is an affront to any American.
Words without deeds is an affront to the principle that guides our Nation and makes a mockery of the values we as public servants claim to love.
Any path is only a path, and there is no affront to oneself or to others, in dropping it if that is what your heart tells you.
Rebukes are easy from our betters,
From men of quality and letters;
But when low dunces will affront,
What man alive can stand the brunt?
The Obama administration is an affront to every freedom-loving American,and a threat to every private sector job in this country.
With so much of music blurring the lines between ersatz and authenticity, at least the 'Rock Band' game is a tribute to rock rather than an affront.
Self-ruled Taiwan cannot be expected to accept such an affront to the legitimacy of its government and the self-determination of the Taiwanese people.
Tea is an affront to lunch and an insult to dinner.
Charity should be spontaneous. Calculated altruism is an affront.
Any conscious, wilful impairment of the body is an affront to God.
Torture and other forms of cruel or humiliating treatment are an affront to humanity, and the physical and psychological scars can last a lifetime.
While there may have been an age difference, Josh Duggar's transgressions are far less an affront to God than what gays do with each other.
Rejoicing is the essence of genuine worship. A sad face (apart from remorse for sin or regret concerning the pain of others) is an affront to a gracious and generous God.
Slavery is perhaps the greatest affront to the fundamental principle of individual liberty.
Nature has placed the need to see justice done in some souls, and the need to flout and affront it in others.
Despite my best efforts, I'm not quite perfect. Let's just say I'm like one of those Hopi blankets where they leave a tiny flaw so as to not affront the Lord.
Change' - Obama's election mantra - is a direct, in-your-face affront to the very vision of our Founding Fathers.
Toleration ought in reality to be merely a transitory mood. It must lead to recognition. To tolerate is to affront.
It may affront the military-minded person to suggest a regime that does not maintain any military secrets.
It is an affront to treat falsehood with complaisance.
A great mind will neither give an affront nor bear it.
The Obama administration is an affront to every freedom-loving American, and a threat to every private sector job in this country.
Astrology is an aesthetic affront. It cheapens astronomy, like using Beethoven for commercial jingles.
A government run by billionaires for billionaires is an affront to freedom and morality and humanity.
