Quotes About Controversy

While the other candidates were memorizing all the countries in NATO, practicing their pronunciations of Arabic names, and learning the geography of Syria, Trump shut to the top of the polls with an opening speech about Mexico sending rapists and drugs to our country. Do not mistake me for a politician of nuance-- I'm going to tell you the truth.

I'm beginning to suspect the wall is popular. Although

advocates unfettered scientific research and debate—but then, with no evidence, simply declares discussions about evolution and global warming closed; •

Susan Rosenberg was a member of the Weather Underground, the Black Liberation Army, and The Family. She conspired to kill cops, blow up buildings, and stage an armed robbery of the Brinks truck in Nanuet, New York. Sentenced to fifty-eight years in prison for felony murder and possession of more than 700 pounds of explosives, Rosenberg was released from prison by President Clinton on his last day in office. Just

President Clinton also pardoned sixteen Puerto Rican terrorists who had set off more than a hundred bombs in New York and Chicago in the seventies and eighties, killing a half dozen people and injuring more than seventy. They hadn't even asked for pardons. If

This is a must-read book for all those who feel they have the right to engage in any part of the debate on sex education, a woman's right to choose, or the impact of adoption." —

Berman points out that this sort of thinking has led the Israelis to be frequently likened to the Nazis in the European press.

Although not a single leader of the Third Reich—not even Hitler himself—was ever excommunicated, Galileo was not absolved of heresy until 1992.

the Bible and the Koran both contain mountains of life-destroying gibberish.

President Bush recently decided to cut off funding to any overseas family-planning group that provides information on abortion.

In places where scholars can still be stoned to death for doubting the veracity of the Koran, Gould's notion of a loving concordat between faith and reason would be perfectly delusional.

Well, let's make it simpler. Let's say we found a culture on an island somewhere that was removing the eyeballs of every third child. Would you then agree that we had found a culture that was not perfectly maximizing human well-being?

Such mockery of religious faith is inexcusable.

Some people think that suicide bombing and other forms of violence against civilian targets are justified in order to defend Islam from its enemies.

Jerry Falwell

a significant percentage of the world's Muslims believe that the men who brought down the World Trade Center are now seated at the right hand of God

The opinions prevalent in one age, as truths above the reach of controversy, are confuted and rejected in another, and rise again to reception in remoter times. Thus the human mind is kept in motion without progress.

place—for that little chippy?

Considering Independence Hall was also where the founders calculated that a slave equals three-fifths of a person and cooked up an electoral college that lets Florida and Ohio pick our presidents, making an adolescent who barely spoke English a major general at the age I got hired to run the cash register at a Portland pizza joint was not the worst decision ever made there.

Freedom of expression truly exists only when a society's most repugnant nitwits are allowed to spew their nonsense in public.

Ravelstein, who didn't bring wild charges against anybody, said that Grielescu was mentioned, by scholars who specialized in such things, as an Iron Guardist connected with the Romanian prewar fascist government. He had been a foreign service cultural official in the Nazi regime in Bucharest. "You don't like to think of such things

It is so easy for outsiders to say that there are two sides to the question. What a terrible expression! I am beginning to detest

But this might have been construed to mean that what the Nazis had done to the Jews resembled what Zionism had done to the Arabs—a parallel no sane person would agree to.

Schopenhauer on Hegel: A flat-headed, insipid, nauseating, illiterate charlatan.