Quotes About Controversy

The prescribing of psychotropic drugs to two-year-olds and three-year-olds began to become more commonplace about a decade ago, and sure enough, the number of severely mentally ill children under six years of age receiving SSI has tripled since then, rising from 22,453 in 2000 to 65,928 in 2007.

United States dropped atomic bombs on two Japanese cities—cities, not military bases—and drew virtually no protest from Americans.

Y cómo te va? -Muy bien... La farmacia da setenta pesos diarios. En Pico no hay otro que conozca la Biblia como yo. Lo desafié al cura a una controversia y no quiso agarrar viaje. Erdosain miró repentinamente esperanzado a su extraño amigo. Luego le preguntó: -¿Jugás siempre? -Sí, y Jesús, por mi mucha inocencia, me ha revelado el secreto de la ruleta

When people read his books they have an uncontrollable desire to hang the author in the town square. I can't think of a higher honor for a writer.

As you're well aware, this is a macho country full of faggots. The history of Mexico wouldn't make sense otherwise.

As far as Aricimboldi was concerned, Isou was a 'Romanian fuck-stick.

Herein lies one of the book's many virtues: nationalists can't abide it. Its acid humor, like a Buster Keaton movie or a time bomb, threatens the hormonal stability of the idiots who, upon reading it, feel an irresistible urge to string the author up in the town square. Truly, I know of no greater honor for a real writer.

Toda escritura es una marranada. Las personas que salen de la nada intentando precisar cualquier cosa que pasa por su cabeza, son unos cerdos. Todos los escritores son unos cerdos. Especialmente los de ahora.

The press attack people to sell more papers without thinking, but when you get famous you have to put up with this kind of stuff.

There are just too many school-age kids, mostly boys, being prescribed speed to make them easier to corral.

Because there is no fight like a church fight, all hell broke loose.

Golf is a game where white men can dress up as black pimps and get away with it.

died of a seizure — some said brought on by rage

Despite Eleanor being twelve to her husband's twenty-eight, they had begun sleeping together straight away

Pretty quick I learned that the fans don't give a shit about controversy, they just want real. I give 'em real.

Do you think people can be rehabilitated and forgiven? Sure! Look at Ollie North. Well, he lost that Senate race. He was not sufficiently forgiven. But he got some votes, Jan insisted. Yeah, and now what is he doing? Now he's back promoting a line of fire-retardant pajamas. It's a life!

I have an opinion about holy war, which in general I must keep to myself. I have no wish to be known as a heretic. It is....that if a war can be holy, then God cannot. At best a war can only be necessary.

When the Emancipation Proclamation went into effect, on January 1, 1863, Abbott wrote from the front to his aunt to explain that "[t]he president's proclamation is of course received with universal disgust, particularly the part which enjoins officers to see that it is carried out. You may be sure that we shan't see to any thing of the kind, having decidedly too much reverence for the constitution.

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Poison-pen artists on both sides wrote vitriolic essays that were overtly partisan, often paid scant heed to accuracy, and sought a visceral impact.

Once again, he hinted at litigation.

Nonetheless, Jefferson Davis remained loyal to him in the teeth of a clamor to cashier him.

He had prevailed in almost every major program he had sponsored—whether the bank, assumption, funding the public debt, the tax system, the Customs Service, or the Coast Guard—despite years of complaints and bitter smears.

You aroused his . . . that surely was very indiscreet.