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Insults are the arguments employed by those who are in the wrong.
I wanted to cause trouble, but I know now it stays with you.
I am talking about anything that is a provocation - ignore it. When something falls under freedom of expression, you can read it and take a critical distance.
He was impolite while making a point? This is Vlad the Impaler. His points usually come at the end of a long pole.
Polite contempt. The barbed and poisonous weapon of the righteous.
Out of anger comes controversy, out of controversy comes conversation, out of conversation comes action.
Our job is to instigate, and by the grace of God, we did that, and certain people responded to this instigation.
It frequently happens that offenses are committed when the offender is not aware of it. Something he has said or done is misconstrued or misunderstood. The offended one treasures in his heart the offense, adding to it such other things as might give fuel to the fire and justify his conclusions ...
You add to the suffering in the world when you take offense, just as much as you do when you give offense.
transgressions one
In excess altercation, truth is lost.
So natural to man is the practice of violence that our indulgence allows the slightest provocation, the most disputable right, as a sufficient ground of national hostility.
Retaliation is a dog chasing its tail
One who provokes a person by speaking has only called to the surface the passion that was already there. The person who becomes disturbed is like a rotten loaf of bread, which looks all right outside, but inside is mouldy, so that if anyone breaks it its rottenness appears. - Dorotheos
We violated each other's boundaries with verbal missiles of anger disguised in the pretense of "just kidding.
[I provoke] the system [to] show its true face ... so that through its own acts of terrorism ... the masses will rise against it.
This aggression will not stand
When tempers flare up reason is burned to ashes.
When you are in deep conflict about something, sometimes the most trivial thing can tip the scales.
Let your dissent fuel you, your anger inspire you, your rage convey you, and your fury strike a chilling fear onto the spines of your enemies.
To take offence is a great folly, and to give offence is a great folly
I know not which is the greater ...
What provokes your risibility, Sir? Have I said anything that you understand? Then I ask pardon of the rest of the company.
Prudence reproaches; conscience accuses.
Confrontation is better than malice.
The simple fact is, offense is taken, not given,
Offenses offend, beware!
Humiliation is the sport of the petty
When people are angry, any insult will do; and prejudice is magnified into a cause.
Do not give in to the provocation of the devil
Many need no other provocation to enmity than that they find themselves excelled.
Been provoked into disrespect and impatience against her better
To use the little kick of energy which opposition supplies to be more vigorously oneself.
Truth provokes those whom it does not convert.
I have been quite put out of temper this morning and someone ought to die for it.
You cannot provoke. You cannot insult the faith of others. You cannot make fun of the faith of others.
Beware
Of entrance to a quarrel.
Conflict. Conflict. Where art thou conflict?
I'm probably the most militant person you'll ever meet and I speak my mind without provocation sometimes.
Well, there are those who would say it's a form of aggression."
"What is?"
"A surprise.
I don't like confrontation.
Wrongs unredressed, or insults unavenged.
A little rudeness and disrespect can elevate a meaningless interaction to a battle of wills and add drama to an otherwise dull day.
Conflict is drama.
The wrong that rouses our angry passions finds only a medium in us; it passes through us like a vibration, and we inflict what we have suffered.
If our zeal is embittered by expressions of anger, invective, or scorn - we may think we are doing service of the cause of truth, when in reality we shall only bring it into discredit!
In a world so full of trauma, why should causing offense be a goal in and of itself? When people are told they shouldn't be offended, their pain is invalidated, deemed less important than the dominant culture's supposed right to remain complacent.
Apologize: To lay the foundation for a future offence.
An insult is either sustained or destroyed, not by the disposition of those who insult, but by the disposition of those who bear it.
We seldom get into trouble when we speak softly. It is only when we raise our voices that the sparks fly and tiny molehills become great mountains of contention.
Uninvited criticism is insult.
When a public quarrel is envenomed by private injuries, a blow that is not mortal or decisive can be productive only of a short truce, which allows the unsuccessful combatant to sharpen his arms for a new encounter.
It is but seldom that any one overt act produces hostilities between two nations; there exists, more commonly, a previous jealousy and ill will, a predisposition to take offense.
I do the wrong, and first begin to brawl.
The secret mischiefs that I set abroach
I lay unto the grievous charge of others.
Truth carries with it confrontation. Truth demands confrontation; loving confrontation, but confrontation nevertheless.
Do I provoke as a method of investigation? Of course. That's the essence of architecture. Do I do it with gusto? I do.
I wasn't disturbing the peace, I was disturbing the war
I'm calling for dialogue. I'm gathering attention for dialogue which is what you do in a struggle for power.
Harsh reproof is like a violent storm, soon washed down the channel; but friendly admonitions, like a small shower, pierce deep, and bring forth better reformation.
To be angry about trifles is mean and childish; to rage and be furious is brutish; and to maintain perpetual wrath is akin to the practice and temper of devils; but to prevent and suppress rising resentment is wise and glorious, is manly and divine.
Whatever defamation of character my enemies are spreading about me, I do not feel the need to justify myself toward them. While discretion obliges me to remain silent, my duty compels me to prevent them from doing any more harm.
Aggression is what I do. I go to war. You don't contest football matches in a reasonable state of mind
Confrontation is better than insinuation.
Much is said about English severity, but not a word about Irish provocation.
I consider it a mark of great prudence in a man to abstain from threats or any contemptuous expressions, for neither of these weaken the enemy, but threats make him more cautious, and the other excites his hatred, and a desire to revenge himself.
Don't react to any fuming argument.
Humans are nervous, touchy creatures and can be easily offended. Many are deeply insecure. They become focused and energized by taking offence; it makes them feel meaningful and alive.
The zeal of fools offends at any time.
Dissimulation, even the most innocent in its nature, is ever productive of embarrassment; whether the design is evil or not artifice is always dangerous and almost inevitably disgraceful.
I'm sorry. Are we interrupting your family time with this little inconsequential battle?"
Eve, Jaymin (2013-09-23). Spurn (A Walker Saga Book 2) (p. 386). . Kindle Edition.
When you say something really unkind, when you do something in retaliation your anger increases. You make the other person suffer, and he will try hard to say or to do something back to get relief from his suffering. That is how conflict escalates.
I operate under this one mantra: only when provoked.
When an objection cannot be made formidable, there is some policy in trying to make it frightful; and to substitute the yell and the war-whoop, in the place of reason, argument and good order.
Profanity is the name given to the defilement of the sanctity of human life.
I have never in my career embarked on a journey towards controversy. I have never deliberately set a flame.
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Each of these failures for me is a failure of communication, via a mode of communication that can be violent or meant to behave violently. Butler provides a way of thinking about how language becomes an instrument of violence. And why we feel it as such.
In certain trying circumstances, urgent circumstances, desperate circumstances, profanity furnishes a relief denied even to prayer.
To take offense is to give offense.
No fury more righteous than that of a sinner accused of the wrong sin.
Conflict cannot survive without your participation
I am provocative, and I admit this. It isn't as if I'm only on the receiving end, a poor, frail little creature. I can be thoroughly nasty when I get going, and I don't pull my punches.
Language has been mobilised and sent into battle; it directs the human carnage of conflict with its enunciation of emotion, stimulating souls to abandon peace.
Start a conflict is to release a flood; stop the dispute before it breaks out.
Any situation in which some men prevent others from engaging in the process of inquiry is one of violence; ... to alienate humans from their own decision making is to change them into objects.
Contentions fierce, Ardent, and dire, spring from no petty cause.
When you show more than
aggressive misbehaviour, it means
your integrity and dignity were not for real.
Religion of Blue Circle
Religious Leader Petra Cecilia Maria Hermans
Worldpoet 546
Righteous indignation: your own wrath as opposed to the shocking bad temper of others
I don't seek controversy. I don't seek to antagonize. Sometimes it happens, but I'm not there to argue politics.
Conclusion 1:
Boredom= Flared tempers= hard words
The last thing we wanted to do was offend you."
"The last thing you wanted was for me to take offense.
I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have.
The passions often engender their contraries.
When the attack is "due" (or a little overdue), it will occur, explosively, whether or not there is any provocation.
Keep carefully not of all scrapes and quarrels. They lower a character extremely; and are particularly dangerous in France, wherea man is dishonoured by not resenting an affront, and utterly ruined by resenting it.
In a controversy, the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.
Getting offended is the bait of Satan for the believer.
reproachful - I've
VITUPERATION, n. Saite, as understood by dunces and all such as suffer from an impediment in their wit.
Wars about trifles are always bitter, especially among neighbours. When the differences are great, and the parties comparative strangers, men quarrel with courtesy. What combatants are ever so eager as two brothers?
The madness of mobs or the insolence of soldiers, or both, when too near to each other, occasion some mischief.