Quotes About Controversy

The Arkansas House deserves special mention. In 1837, when a representative insulted the Speaker during debate, the Speaker stepped down from his platform, bowie knife in hand, and killed him. Expelled and tried for murder, he was acquitted for excusable homicide and reelected, only to pull his knife on another legislator during debate, though this time the sound of colleagues cocking pistols stopped him cold.

It is one thing to understand the doctrine, and quite another to be masters of the controversy.' Lewis's ambition was of course to know the doctrine and to be master of the controversy.

Heresy and progress often look much alike.

Call it art, you can get away with anything.

To shoot up a district of women, children, prams and goldfish otherwise, to run them through with swords much as one might like to, would not look good, would look grave, sexist, unbalanced, not only in the glare of the critical side of the home media, but also in the eyes of the international media

He'd homed in on that flag issue, the flags-and-emblems issue, instinctive and emotional because flags were invented to be instinctive and emotional – often pathologically, narcissistically emotional – and he meant that flag of the country from 'over the water' which was also the same flag of the community from 'over the road'. It was not a flag greatly welcomed in our community. Not a flag at all welcomed in our community

At this year's Open, I'll have five boyfriends.

I remember abortion being legal in the United States

has to continually battle Orthodox charges that his church is a "foreign un-Russian sect,

Evangelicals' support for Vladimir Putin, his takeover of Crimea,

No matter how mistaken Communist ideas may be, the experience and knowledge gained by trying them out have given a tremendous impetus to thought and imagination.

Today smugglers are vilified and pursued like abortionists were thirty years ago. No one questions the laws and world order that condone their existence. Yet surely, among those who trade in refugees, as among those who once traded in foetuses, there must be some sense of honor.

In their opinion, writing was dangerous, like touching your privates or grimacing like a dingo.

La representación de la sociedad se atomizaba en «temas», prioritariamente sexuales, el intercambio de parejas, los transexuales, el incesto, la pedofilia y el topless en las playas, a favor o en contra, ponían ante la vista de la gente hechos y conductas que en general nunca habían probado personalmente y que, los aprobaran o los rechazaran, creían extendidos por todas partes, cuando no convertidos en norma.

Ni lui ni moi n'avions prononcé le mot avortement une seule fois. C'était une chose qui n'avait pas de place dans le langage.

No woman has ever professionally, to my knowledge, fought a man in a professionally commissioned, sanctioned fight. And it's not going to happen. I mean, I'd be amazed if that ever happened. It's not gonna happen.

Cinema and cricket are two professions in this country that people have an opinion on.

A lot of things which come with a high profile will always be criticised one way or another.

The reason to do any barking - well, the reason for me - is that 'Three Billboards' feels so off about so many things. It's one of those movies that really do think they're saying something profound about human nature and injustice.

Make no mistake: Obamacare is a pro-death 'health' program.

Like so many large companies in the U.S., Monsanto has prospered in large part due to U.S. taxpayer-funded programs and services.

In 1996, Shakespeare's 'Twelfth Night' was removed from classrooms after a school board passed a 'prohibition of alternative lifestyle instruction' act. Apparently, a young female character disguised as a boy was a danger to the youth of Merrimack, New Hampshire.

Just two words are enough to drive away the DMK members from the House. They are running away at the mention of 'Katchatheevu' or 'prohibition.'

If City Hall started projecting swastikas, no one would say 'You know what? Free speech.' People would say that is wrong.