To make punishments efficacious, two things are necessary. They must never be disproportioned to the offence, and they must be certain.
It is an offence to pay for sex with someone controlled for gain.
Once divested of missionary virus, the cult of our gods gives no offence. It would be a peaceful age if this were recognized, and religion, Christian, communist or any other, were to rely on practice and not on conversion for her growth.
From tender youth we are told by father and teacher that betrayal is the most heinous offence imaginable. But what is betrayal? Betrayal means breaking ranks and breaking off into the unknown. Sabina knew of nothing more magnificent than going off into the unknown.
When I was in my 20s it did occur to me that there was something perverted about an attitude that thought that killing somebody was a minor offence compared to kissing somebody.
How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense, and love the offender, yet detest the offence?
If one sets a car on fire, that is a criminal offence. If one sets hundreds of cars on fire, that is political action.
In the 1950s, buggery was a criminal offence. Now it's a requirement to receive benefits from the federal government.
Have you ever noticed how few sitting places you find in private gardens? How seldom the versatility and importance of benches is considered? True gardeners, with their peerless taste, dexterity and inspired planting, never stop. . . To sit is almost an offence, a sign of depravity and an outrage towards every felicitous refinement that has gone into making a garden.
The only 'natural enemies' are those who take one's very nature as an offence.
I'm a great dog fanatic. My own dog died a little while ago and I take it very personally when things die-it's a major offence.
Love is patient and kind. It's never jealous. Love is never boastful or conceited. It is never rude or selfish. It does not take offence and is not resentful.
Now, if anything at all can be known to be wrong, it seems to me to be unshakably certain that it would be wrong to make any sentient being suffer eternally for any offence whatever.
Sometimes, I, anyway, get tired of playing defence, and like to play offence.
Even bear-baiting was esteemed heathenish and unchristian: the sport of it, not the inhumanity, gave offence.
The greatest offence against virtue is to speak ill of it.
Of ill-temper there are three kinds: irascibility, bitterness, sullenness. It belongs to the ill-tempered man to be unable to bear either small slights or defeats but to be given to retaliation and revenge, and easily moved to anger by any chance deed or word. Ill-temper is accompanied by excitability of character, instability, bitter speech, and liability to take offence at trifles and to feel these feelings quickly and on slight occasions.
O, my offence is rank, it smells to heaven
If I take offence easily; if I am content to continue in cold unfriendliness, though friendship be possible, then I know nothing of Calvary love.
No offence Mitch, but you look like s*****. " "I feel like s****
