We don't deliberately set out to offend. Unless we feel it's justified.

- Graham Chapman

It is not difficult to govern. All one has to do is not to offend the noble families.

- Mencius

We want to get people laughing; we don't want to offend anybody.

- Mel Brooks

People invade your space and offend your sensibilities because, to be plain, they couldn't care less about you.

- Laurie Graham

If you're not going to offend somebody you don't need the First Amendment.

- Larry Flynt

I think if a book has the power to move a reader, it also has the power to offend a reader. And you want your books to have power, so you just have to take what comes with that.

- Katherine Paterson

When I'm being funny, I try not to offend. I don't think much of what I've done has been in really ghastly taste. I don't think I have embarrassed many people or distressed them.

- Kurt Vonnegut

Apparently, there's this whole set of disgruntled people but obviously it's not my intention to offend anyone by changing the style of music that I've done.

- Jonny Lang

I don't want to offend people.

- Isaac Mizrahi

It seems no matter what you say and how politically correctly and carefully you say it, you offend someone. Or at least I always do.

- Gary Numan

If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed.

- Benjamin Franklin

I've never really been one to try to be politically correct. I just feel truth is truth, and sometimes I probably offend some people.

- Franklin Graham

Art should offend people because art should challenge people.

- Eriq La Salle

I know I probably offend some people. I have been talking a little too much so I'm trying not to talk as much.

- David Arquette

You have to be willing to offend in order to make progress.

- Claire McCaskill

You can only offend me if you mean something to me.

- Chris Rock

Coming from The Disney Channel, anything I do is going to offend somehow, somewhere, somehow.

- Brenda Song

We take a lot of care with lyrics because we don't want to offend anybody.

- Bill Haley

If I ever did cross over I would like to do it tactfully. I don't want to offend anyone in country. Can you have the best of both worlds? I sure like the idea of it!

- Bryan White

I don't aim to offend.

- Billy Connolly