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Quotes About Controversy

Bioy Casares recalled that one of the heresiarchs of Uqbar had stated that mirrors and copulation are abominable, since they both multiply the numbers of man.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
Football is one of England's biggest crimes.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
Pero este tipo de argumentos no tuvo mucho peso cuando el viernes 29 de septiembre del 2006 el Senado de Estados Unidos autorizó la construcción de un muro de casi 700 millas en la frontera con México. Ni siquiera hubo fuerte oposición. Ochenta senadores votaron a favor (incluyendo a Barack Obama y John McCain) y sólo diecinueve se opusieron.
~ Jorge Ramos
Rolf Harris is a hard man to hate, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't try
~ A.A.Gill
Churchill's 2,054 page book Second World War makes no mention of genocide or the murder of Jews. Coincidentally, Churchill was a strong proponent of eugenic legislation prior to the outbreak of WWII.
~ A.E. Samaan
It's hardly matters whether it's true or false. The point is the slander. People love scandal
~ Ágota Kristóf
If Algeria introduced a resolution that the earth was flat and that Israel had flattened it, it would pass by a vote of 164 to 13 with 26 abstentions.
~ Abba Eban
Sometimes the proper intellectual argument is "FUCK YOU!
~ Abbie Hoffman
We are forever asking Nature whether it has stopped beating its wife.
~ Abraham Kaplan
I have never seen to my knowledge a man, woman, or child who was in favor of producing a perfect equality, social and political, between negroes and white men.
~ Abraham Lincoln
I'm still struggling to accept that Pluto may not be a planet.
~ Adam Grant
There is so much drivel about psychoactive meds, so much corruption, bad faith, over- and underprescription, vagueness, profiteering, ignorance, and hope, that it's easy to forget they sometimes work, alleviating real suffering, at least for a time. This was such a time. I
~ Adam Haslett
At the time of the Congo controversy a hundred years ago, the idea of full human rights, political, social, and economic, was a profound threat to the established order of most countries on earth. It still is today.
~ Adam Hochschild
Kids end up seeing my movies anyway but some of the mothers get mad at me so I figured I'd make one that I can't get yelled at for.
~ Adam Sandler
Logika kebebasan individu--asal tidak merugikan orang lain ini telah menjebak Barat dan masyarakat sekular lainnya untuk menerapkan hukum yang berdasarkan pada 'hak individu', seperti dalam kasus hukum zina. Jika zina dihalalkan oleh masyarakat dan negara, lalu apa logikanya negara mau mengharamkan homoseksual? (Hal.11)
~ Adian Husaini
The controversy lay in determining the degree of freedom allowed. In contradistinction to this view, Maimonides held that divine providence was reserved only for certain exceptional individuals.
~ Adin Even-Israel Steinsaltz
Freedom rings where opinions clash.
~ Adlai E. Stevenson
A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular.
~ Adlai Ewing Stevenson
My spirit will rise from the grave and the world will see i was right.
~ Adolf Hitler
Sehr intelligente Menschen sollten sich eine primitive und dumme Frau nehmen. In meiner freien Zeit will ich meine Ruhe haben.
~ Adolf Hitler
The Jewish Question? Thats a hell of a thing to ask!
~ Adolf Hitler
Alle, der ser og maler en grøn himmel og en blå kornmark, burde steriliseres.
~ Adolf Hitler
Peter Elers, one of the first openly gay vicars in the Church of England, who blessed a lesbian 'marriage' in 1976 on the understanding that, if the Church blessed battleships and budgerigars, it ought to find it in its heart to bless men and women in love.
~ Adrian Gill
How do you feel about homosexuals, Mr. Scavanni?' I asked. 'I think they're great. More women for the rest of us,' he said sarcastically.
~ Adrian McKinty