Widespread Offence

Famous quotes containing the words widespread and/or offence:

“Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion.”
—John Berger (b. 1926)

“One would think, that a deliberate and practical denial of its authority was the only offence never contemplated by government; else, why has it not assigned its definite, its suitable and proportionate, penalty?”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)