Quotes About Controversy

I break into heterosexual houses so I can masturbate in their heterosexual kitchens

Very few scientists now defend the idea that depression is simply caused by low levels of serotonin, but the debate about whether chemical antidepressants work—for some other reason we don't fully understand—is still ongoing. There is no scientific consensus. Many distinguished scientists agree with Irving Kirsch; many agree with Peter Kramer.

If it's more enraging, it's more engaging.

This was the bullet at the birth of drug prohibition, and nobody knows where it came from, even now.

The death penalty is becoming a way of life in this country.

There are a lot of good arguments for birth control, but as far as terminating a life that has already come into existence, I haven't found any.

Michael Jackson has an anti-Semitic streak, and hasn't learned from his past mistakes. It seems every time he has a problem in his life, he blames it on Jews.

We who officially value freedom of speech above life itself seem to have nothing to talk about but the weather.

Global warming is the greatest and most successful pseudoscientific fraud I have seen in my long life as a physicist.

Any country that accepts abortion is the poorest of the poor

My goal is to goad people into saying something that ruins their life.

A person in the business of defending criminal cases is going to live in controversy all of his or her life.

The ethical argument regarding abortion hinges on the question of when life begins. Some believe life begins at forty.

Requiring military hospitals to perform elective abortions exposes the physicians, the nurses, the military personnel to move against their own personal convictions of life in many cases.

The Beatles are not merely awful. I would consider it sacrilegious to say anything less than that they are godawful.

'The Satanic Verses' was denied the ordinary life of a novel. It became something smaller and uglier: an insult.

Everything in life that deviates from the straight and, so to speak, normal line, makes people first curious and then indignant.

Do not be awed by giant predecessors. Be ill-tempered with their renown. Point out flaws. Frighten interviewers from Time. Appear in Playboy. Sell to the movies.

Obscenity is a notable enhancer of life and is suppressed at grave peril to the arts.

A pro-choice advocate sees abortion as a decision to be made in accordance with the best scientific opinion as to when the beginning of life, as we know it, occurs.

Much of the world is jealous of the United States. Many of the religious and political fanatics who ridicule and criticize the U.S., calling Americans "Satanists" and "imperialists," would fall head over heels for a green card, if they don't already have one.

"I will not kiss your f.ing flag"

We can argue about it in hell.

Can't we talk about sex or murder?" asked Johnny.