Quotes About Controversy

Who shall argue with the most stubborn of all bigotries, — the fanaticism of unbelief?

However, he initially saw no moral issue with Falkland and dismissed any criticism of the work as faux outrage and contended that he was content to attract readers to his works by any means, including controversy. Leslie George Mitchell states that Bulwer-Lytton, or just Bulwer as he was known at that time, considered his poetry to be his finest work and wished to increase its readership through his novel writing and reputation.

The man you love to hate.

Obscenity is whatever gives the Judge an erection.

Happy We-Stole-Your-Land-and-Killed-Your-People Day!

If gay and lesbian people are given civil rights, then everyone will want them!

Censorship offends me.

Dirty work at the crossroads

I came not to send peace, but a sword.

Doubtful disputations.

There are some people who argue that we are too sensitive these days, that because we're so afraid of causing offence, we no longer engage in any serious sort of argument at all. But that's how it is. It's why political chat-shows on television have become so very boring. There are narrow lines between which all public conversations have to take place and even a single poorly chosen word can bring all sorts of trouble down on your head.

It was almost like discovering that Enid Blyton, in her spare time, had turned to pornography.

The Daily Mail had branded the books 'pure porn poison', which the publishers had cheekily reprinted on the cover.

But that's impossible. They're full of pornography.' I searched for the worst thing I could say about them. 'They objectify women!

Liberals are stalwart defenders of civil liberties - provided we're only talking about criminals.

Over the course of my career, I have come to accept that some of my more provocative work courts controversy, and as an artist, I value the discourse that arises from this. I can only hope for this discourse to be informed by fact, so that whether you love my work or hate it, you give it, and me, the benefit of the truth.

Writers should provoke disagreement.

There's no question that Ben Shapiro loves to provoke college students.

Once I feel I'm right, I have enjoyed provoking.

It's barely OK for me to be dressed up as a black guy. But part of me kind of enjoys provoking people.

Even though ripping on those of the Christian cloth is nothing new, edgy, or thought provoking, Hollywood feels the need to do it with each of their religiously overtoned talkies.

In London, 'Equus' caused a sensation because it displayed cruelty to horses; in New York, because it allegedly displayed cruelty to psychiatrists.

I've been in the group that believes it's in our national interest to close Guantanamo. It does create a psychological scar on our national values. Whether it should or not, it does.

I think... all of the best public cryptographers in the world would agree that you can't really build back doors in crypto. That it's like drilling a hole in the windshield.