Quotes About Controversy

Wild-eyed gun nuts who insist that guns don't kill people are purely full of crap, as even a cursory glance at a newspaper on almost any given day will attest.

That's the funny thing about religion: it doesn't matter what you say, you're going to upset someone .

A bonfire billowed up. Some in the crowd tossed copies of Ladybird's book into the fire while a librarian pleaded with them not to do that and grabbed a fire extinguisher.* *Really, being a librarian is a much more dangerous job than you realize.

I like offending people, because I think people who get offended should be offended.

I think Donald Trump is a complete and utter buffoon and a cancer to our society.

Everything about art has become problematic; its inner life, its relation to society, even its right to exist.

Only conservatives believe that subversion is still being carried on in the arts and that society is being shaken by it.

Paul Krugman is a danger to society!

The artist is likely to be looked upon with some uneasiness by the more conservative members of society.

If I were to select a jack-booted group of fascists who are perhaps as large a danger to American society as I could pick today, I would pick BATF [the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms].

The question of the family now divides our society so deeply that the opposing sides cannot even agree on a definition of the institution they are arguing about.

A genuinely political society, in which discussion and debate are an essential technique, is a society full of risks.

Free speech is the bedrock of liberty and a free society. And yes, it includes the right to blaspheme and offend.

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One of the surprising privileges of intellectuals is that they are free to be scandalously asinine without harming their reputations.

I'm opposed to abortion because I happen to believe that life deserves the protection of society.

I won't yield to anyone about guns in our society. I know enough about it.

People don't understand that my films is not about being scandalous - it's about being critical of our own society.

Political correctness is one of the engines of nannyism. Allowing and even encouraging 'offensive' ideas is vital for the intellectually health of a free society.

If you are going to walk with Jesus Christ, you are going to be opposed ... In our days, to be a true Christian is really to become a scandal.

You believe in a book that has sticks turning into snakes, and you say we are the ones that need help?

Evolution seems to close the heart to some of the plainest spiritual truths while it opens the mind to the wildest guesses advanced in the name of science.

I don't love the postmodern statement: "You shouldn't be spiritual if you are the artist."

Everyone claims to be okay with freedom of religion, but the moment you mention God there is a strange tension that fills the air. If there was a 6th sense, that would be it.