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Quotes About Controversy

Democracy! Bah! When I hear that word I reach for my feather boa!
~ Allen Ginsberg
I'm not sorry (America)
~ Allen Ginsberg
week old infants, ward-bound juveniles with epilepsy, or those with profound retardation in his experiments. Involuntary, nontherapeutic, and dangerous experiments on children were far from unusual or dishonourable endeavours during the twentieth century. The practice was widely accepted, rarely questioned and integral to the phenomenal growth of medical research and human experimentation during World War II and the Cold War that followed.
~ Allen M. Hornblum
Even infants were used in research studies; for example, two-day-old babies were fed bismuth, a metal-like substance used in the manufacture of some pharmaceuticals, and then exposed to extensive X-rays to chart the course of different foods in their stomachs.
~ Allen M. Hornblum
Rizal's greatest misfortune is being national hero of the Philippines.
~ Ambeth Ocampo
CONTROVERSY, n. A battle in which spittle or ink replaces the injurious cannon-ball and the inconsiderate bayonet.
~ Ambrose Bierce
Monza never had understood why getting out a tit or two made for a better painting. But painters seemed to think it did, so tits is what you got.
~ Joe Abercrombie
Watching a man's entrails spilling out is excellent entertainment, but the sight of his cock, well, that would be obscene.
~ Joe Abercrombie
Rudy Giuliani -- there's only three things he mentions in a sentence: a noun, a verb, and 9/11.
~ Joe Biden
There is no such thing as a good police shooting, it's either justified or not. - MSNBC 9/21/16
~ Joe Giacalone
Then Glenn Beck burned to death on his Internet program, right in front of his chalkboard, burned so hot his glasses fused to his face
~ Joe Hill
Goddamn bloody arsefoam. Daddy drilling Mommy on the kitchen table.
~ Joe Hill
Suck my twinkie,asshole.
~ Joe Hill
Book burners! I'll cut off your balls and rape your women!
~ Joe Hill
Charlie Manx laughed, the big, hoarse hee-haw of a country shithead who has just heard a joke involving a kike, a nigger, and a feminist.
~ Joe Hill
Euthanasia is against my religion so I decided to murder her.
~ Joe Orton
Good books to not invite unanimity. They invite discord, mayhem, knife fights, blood feuds.
~ Joe Queenan
Hap, even tough I'm a racist castrating bitch that wants you to be better than you are, wants you to do something with your life besides be a knockabout, do you think you could find it in your heart, in your itty-bitty white man's dick, to get a hard-on for me? In other words, want to fuck?
~ Joe R. Lansdale
Technically, I'm not stealing anything. Car or pussy. You don't own the car, and the pussy came with a nightcap." "Don't be vulgar.
~ Joe R. Lansdale
I have three favorite politicians: Reagan, Truman, and Bobby Kennedy - Bobby for showing remarkable political courage despite being loathed by many on both sides.
~ Joe Scarborough
It is also worth recalling that tranquil Singapore maintains what is probably the highest rate of state executions in the world, well ahead of China or Saudi Arabia.32
~ Joe Studwell
I don't think that a same-sex marriage is the way God intended it to be.
~ Joel Osteen
President Barack Obama, supposed friend of the common man, has put Monsanto's own vice president, GMO shepherd Michael Taylor, in charge of food safety.
~ Joel Salatin
When I first called Jerry Wexler, the man everybody most associates with Berns's career, and told him I planned to work on this book, Wexler's affable tone disappeared. "I'll tell you this," he said. "I don't know where he's buried, but if I did, I would piss on his grave.
~ Joel Selvin