Quotes About Controversy

It is still possible to have friendly discourse in America, as long as you don't bring up any subject.

Organizational questions," Lenin's views on them in particular, were a fateful bone of contention when fifty-seven delegates from Russia and abroad met in Brussels in July 1903 for the Russian Social Democratic Workers' party's Second Congress—a meeting with more claim than the earlier one in Minsk to be considered the constituent congress.

But he did play a commanding part in the larger party controversy of the time by taking up "socialism in one country" as a political and ideological platform. This he did at the end of 1924, when he spoke out for the first time on building socialism in an isolated Soviet Russia.

The Tenth Congress was a political setback for Trotsky. He came out a loser in the trade union controversy, and the NEP was implicitly a repudiation of the line that he had publicly been taking in economic policy.

Djugashvili had a way of leaving places under a cloud after some ugly incident, brought on in part by his own tendency to become embroiled with others.

Ulyanov's colossal capacity for work, combined with his powerful and prolific pen, brought him to the fore as a pamphleteer for revolutionary Marxism during that time of controversy between the populist and Marxist branches of the socialist movement, and between militants and moderates within the Marxist branch.

In May 2010, Wakefield and Walker-Smith were found guilty and had their medical licenses revoked. Murch was found not guilty. Wakefield is unrepentant. He has since published a book entitled Callous Disregard: Autism and Vaccines: The Truth Behind a Tragedy (2010) with an introduction by actress Jenny McCarthy. (McCarthy denies that she is anti-vaccine. She claims she is pro safe vaccine, yet she seems to think there is no such thing as a safe vaccine.)

Legal abortion will never rest easy on this nation's conscience.

However, we might oppose it, abortion is a sad feature of modern life.

The Hitler diaries affair is a monument to the cock-up theory of history.

Were they among war's greatest heroes — or history's greatest mass murderers?

However, every racist bigot in the UK did vote to leave the EU. All of them.

It is as though two old friends, a Catholic and Protestant, were sitting drinking beer, enjoying life, and the subject of birth control somehow came up. Big freeze-out.

To doubt the literal meaning of the words of Jesus or Moses incurs hostility from most people, but it's just a fact that if Jesus or Moses were to appear today, unidentified, with the same message he spoke many years ago, his mental stability would be challenged.

Amazingly, prison sentences for murderers have now been lessened in at least two cases because it was argued that the criminal, having the "warrior gene" variant of MAO-A, was inevitably fated to be uncontrollably violent. OMG.

Heretics are wicked, but they're mighty int'resting.

Whether the Vatican by 1499 had become the sewer of the world, as it was later claimed, is debatable, but certainly religion and morality were parting company, the former degenerating into a business and the latter all but disappearing from the Church.

Bill Maher, on a program called Politically Incorrect said "lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building—say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." Maher was fired and the program was terminated. Some portion of the media should have risen up in outrage, not necessarily to defend Maher and get him his job back, but in defense of speaking the truth. They did not.

Democratic representative Pat Schroeder called him "the most evil man in America." Reverend Pat Robertson said, "Lee Atwater has used every dirty trick known to mankind" and "the Republican campaign was blamed for planting specious rumors about the mental-health history of Michael Dukakis." (William Greider, Rolling Stone, 1/12/89)

Five of 'em were teachers," Billy said. "They had to protect their kids. How could they not be armed? It's as if someone has been taking away their guns.

You'd think a sociopath assassin wouldn't have a fan following but he does.

Whether vampires should have been declared 'alive' and full citizens of the United States of America was one of the big debates ranking right up there with gun rights and abortion. In a way all of them are about life and death—defining what life is, and what it isn't, and how far we'll go to protect, or take, it.

Can you love a work of art if the person who produced it was truly awful?

So that whether the pain of a wound in the groin (cæteris paribus) is greater than the pain of a wound in the knee—or Whether the pain of a wound in the knee is not greater than the pain of a wound in the groin—are points which to this day remain unsettled.