Quotes About Controversy

Jesus Christ—who, as it turns out, was born of a virgin, cheated death, and rose bodily into the heavens—can now be eaten in the form of a cracker

Criticizing a person's ideas about God and the afterlife is thought to be impolitic in a way that criticizing his ideas about physics or history is not.

People have been murdered over cartoons. End of moral analysis.

It should go without saying that these rival belief systems [Judaism, Islam, Christianity] are all equally uncontaminated by evidence.

religion is the one area of our discourse

According to a recent poll, 36 percent of British Muslims (ages sixteen to twenty-four) think apostates should be put to death for their unbelief.60 Are these people "morally motivated," in Haidt's sense, or just morally confused? And

The problem with religion is that it blends this truth so thoroughly with the venom of unreason.

I wanna kiss you. I couldn't care less about the team struggling.

Every popular zillion dollar sport has its share of personal scandals around the sport and its leadership.

People are going to say what they say. I know sometimes I say things; I offend people.

We live in an age where... Christian bashing is a popular indoor sport; and films mocking Jesus Christ are considered avant-garde.

I did not have anything to do with these murders. Ever.

There are times when a sports figure doesn't deserve sympathy.

Abortion can never be safe. Any procedure where "success" means the killing of another human being can certainly not be safe.

You want to know the secret of my success? Let me tell you about eugenics.

The brothers De Witt have been judged by the people, said Gryphus; you call that murdered, do you? well, I call it executed.

Religious insanity is very common in the United States.

The law makes the silliest damned fuss about death. People die by the thousands everyday; but simply because someone has had the energy and enterprise to assist old D'Courtney to his demise, the law insists on turning him into an enemy of the people. I think it's idiotic, but please don't quote me.

Diane Beaver, who served as State Judge Advocate on Guantanamo's Joint Task Force in 2002–04, when it adopted harsh methods, told an interviewer that the show 24 had inspired many of the eighteen controversial interrogation techniques used on detainees, including waterboarding, sexual humiliation, and the terrorizing of prisoners with dogs. Jack Bauer, she said, "gave people lots of ideas," adding: "We saw [24] on cable [and] it was hugely popular.

If you could forget that they were two heretics, and that Lord Robert had very likely murdered his wife, they were perfect for each other.

only one man could have been responsible for their deaths: Richard III.

America I used to be a communist when I was a kid and I'm not sorry.

What is obscenity? And to whom?

The Wisdom of Solomon (Carl) They censor words not the things they denote: It would create less of a stir to drop a piece of shit on Grant's tomb than to write it out in white paint. Because people recognize that's what memorials are for–old bums & dogs to shit on.