Quotes About Controversy

When Trump said he would deport millions of undocumented immigrants who were otherwise obeying the law, his critics saw it as the beginning of a Hitler-like roundup of the people who are "different" in some way. I saw it as a thoroughly impractical idea that served as a mental "anchor" to brand Trump as the candidate who cared the most about our porous borders and planned to do the most about them.

So I announced my decision to endorse Hillary Clinton, while making it clear I was only doing it for my personal safety. People laughed. They assumed I was joking. But I stuck to my endorsement, mentioning it often, and always appending "for my safety" to the end as an explanation. I wasn't joking. I was quite serious about trying to lower my risk. The number of people on Twitter accusing me of being Goebbels slowed to a trickle almost immediately.

An intentional "error" in the details of your message will attract criticism. The attention will make your message rise in importance—at least in people's minds—simply because everyone is talking about it.

All extraordinary men, who have accomplished great and astonishing actions, have ever been decried by the world as drunken or insane.

The most dangerous of all books, so far as the history of the world is concerned, is indubitably the Bible, because no other book has brought so much good and so much evil to the human race.

Unfortunately, one can hardly think or say anything right anymore without grievously wounding the state, the gods or public opinion.

There can be no truce between science and religion.

I heard that Jesus had a pet dinosaur. Evolution must be a myth then.

These public executions are a positive disgrace.

By noon everyone had heard that I had spent the night with Marti in a hotel room and when the cops came by, with our mothers, I had asked for time to get dressed. It was also all over the school that I had deliberately provoked Gratz and lived to tell of it, and that Paul had knocked me flat. And on top of that, Spooky Darla had given me a thermonuclear kiss in public. No getting away from it: I was now Public Madman Number One.

This man, Trump. There is no way he could be president. Okay, just take my word for it. It was never going to happen.

Who needs death metal when you've got the Nazis?" They passed

Make no mistake, a 'yes' vote on the Democrats' health care bill is a vote for taxpayer-funded abortions.

The Nobel Peace Prize has become hopelessly politicized. I think it cheapens the prize itself.

Heil Hitler ," he said, which, he presumed, was another way of saying, "Well, goodbye for now, have a pleasant afternoon.

They fight against popular creationism, but at the same time they fight fanatically for their own creationism," he

Some said, "John, print it"; others said, "Not so."Some said, "It might do good"; others said, "No."

Some say, that Signor Bononcini,Compared to Handel's a mere ninny;Others aver, to him, that HandelIs scarcely fit to hold a candle.Strange! that such high dispute should be'Twixt Tweedledum and Tweedledee.

We call it Albion. It is the English-speaking world. The one where they kill babies in the womb, right?" And here I was hoping we'd be famous for the Moonshot, or democracy, or the Beatles, or something.

For I fear not to declare, that what I have here given may be regarded as a summary of the very doctrine which, they vociferate, ought to be punished with confiscation, exile, imprisonment, and flames, as well as exterminated by land and sea.

Thomas Malthus (1766– 1834), mathematician and clergyman, published his Essay on the Principle of Population in 1798 , arousing a storm of abuse and controversy. By applying scientific thought to the question of population, which no one had done before, he contrived to show that it was impossible – despite the dreams of Utopian philosophers – for the whole of mankind to live in happiness and plenty.

Grumbach adds, "John Money is a major figure, and what he says gets handed down and accepted as gospel by some

Global Warming: It is a hoax. It is bad science. It is high-jacking public policy. It is the greatest scam in history.

where there are books, there will always be haters of books alongside the lovers of them.