Rick Perry
Rick Perry

The Obama administration is an affront to every freedom-loving American, and a threat to every private sector job in this country.

Wayne LaPierre
Wayne LaPierre

Change' - Obama's election mantra - is a direct, in-your-face affront to the very vision of our Founding Fathers.

William F. Buckley, Jr.
William F. Buckley, Jr.

I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would affront your intelligence.

The Shape of Water
The Shape of Water

Strickland: [to Zelda and Elisa] Let me say this up front: You clean that lab, you get out. The thing we keep in there is an affront. Do you know what an affront is, Zelda?
Zelda: Something offensive?
Strickland: That's right. And I should know, I dragged that... filthy thing... out of the river muck in South America all the way

here. And along the way we didn't get to like each other much. Now. You may think, "That thing looks human." Stands on two legs, right? But - we're created in the Lord's image. You don't think that's what the Lord looks like, do you?

Ben-Hur
Ben-Hur

Messala: Look to the West, Judah! Don't be a fool, look to Rome!
Judah Ben-Hur: I would rather be a fool than a traitor... or a killer!
Messala: I am a soldier!
Judah Ben-Hur: Yes! Who kills! For Rome! Rome is evil!
Messala: I warn you...
Judah Ben-Hur: No! I

warn you! Rome is an affront to God! Rome is strangling my people and my country, the whole Earth! But not forever. I tell you the day Rome falls there will be a shout of freedom such as the world has never heard before!

Ben-Hur
Ben-Hur

Messala: Judah, tell me, did you-did you think about what I said yesterday?
Judah Ben-Hur: Yes. I talked to a number of people already. Spoken against violence, against incidents. Most of the men I talked to agree with me.
Messala: Most? Not all?
Judah Ben-Hur: No, not all.
Messala: Who

does not agree?
Judah Ben-Hur: Well, the resentful, the impatient.
Messala: Who are they?
[pause]
Messala: Yes Judah. Who are they?
Judah Ben-Hur: [pause] Would I retain your friendship if I became an informer?
Messala: To tell me the names of criminals is hardly

informing.
Judah Ben-Hur: They're not criminals, Messala! They're patriots!
Messala: Patriots. PATRIOTS!
[pause]
Messala: Judah. Judah, let me explain something to you. Something you may not know. The emperor is watching us. At this moment, he watches the east. This is my great opportunity, Judah, and yours too. If I

can bring order into Judea, I can have any post I want. And you'll rise with me, I promise. And do you know where it can end? Rome! Yes, perhaps at the side of Caesar himself! I mean it, I mean it! It can happen and this is the moment, Judah! I swear this is the time! The emperor is watching us, judging us! All I need do is serve him. And all you need do is help me serve him.
Judah

Ben-Hur: You speak as if he were God.
Messala: He is God! The only god! He has power, real power on Earth! Not-
[gestures to the sky]
Messala: Not that. Help me, Judah.
Judah Ben-Hur: I would do anything for you, Messala, except betray my own people.
Messala: In the name of all the gods,

Judah, what do the lives of a few Jews mean to you?
Judah Ben-Hur: If I cannot persuade them, that does not mean I would help you murder them! Besides, you must understand this, Messala. I believe in the past of my people and in their future.
Messala: Future? You are a conquered people.
Judah Ben-Hur: You may conquer the land.

You may slaughter the people. But that is not the end. We will rise again.
Messala: You live on dead dreams. You live on the myths of the past. The glory of Solomon is gone! Do you think it will return? Joshua will not rise again to save you nor David! There is only one reality in the world today! Look to the west, Judah! Don't be a fool, look to Rome!
Judah

Ben-Hur: I would rather be a fool than a traitor or a killer!
Judah Ben-Hur: I am a soldier!
Judah Ben-Hur: Yes! Who kills for Rome and Rome is evil!
Messala: I warn you!...
Judah Ben-Hur: NO! I warn YOU! Rome is an affront to God! Rome is strangling my people and my country, the whole Earth!

But not forever. And I tell you, the day Rome falls, there will be a shout of freedom such as the world has never heard before!

When Harry Met Sally...
When Harry Met Sally...

Sally Albright: Yes it is. You are a human affront to all women and I am a woman.

Network
Network

Frank Hackett: The business of management *is* management. And at the time CCA took control of UBS TV Network was floundering with less than 7% of national television revenues. Most Network programing was being sold at station rates. I am therefore pleased to announce I am submitting to the Board of Directors a plan for the coordination of the main profit centers and with the

specific intention of making each division more responsive to management. Point one: the division producing the lowest rate of return has been the News division with its 98 million dollar budget and its average annual deficit of 32 million. I know that historically News divisions are expected to lose money. But, to our minds this philosophy is a wonton fiscal affront to be resolutely resisted. The

new plan calls for local news to be transferred to owned stations divisions. News radio would be transferred to the UBS radio division and, in effect, the News division would be reduced from an independent division to a department accountable to Network.