Quotes About Controversy

When I fly British Airways, I can't help but read the free Daily Mail, which makes me glad I am leaving the country.

There are some very unsavoury aspects of art dealing that go with the unregulated nature of the market but its all part of the glamour. Glamour always has an unsavoury edge. I dont want to come across as preachy.

I don't know if it's cool to say this anymore, but I grew up listening to Gary Glitter. A majority of his songs were in that shuffle-blues beat, and I think that's probably why I tend to write like that.

There's one thing my dad taught me: don't talk about politics, because you'll never make anyone happy. Don't even go for it.

The NFL can go to hell.

I did sacrifice a goat. I know that's probably a quibble in the mind of most Americans.

Furious protesters don't come after you for jokes at the expense of people; they come after you for jokes at the expense of their gods.

If you're not ruffling feathers at CPAC, I don't think you're doing a very good job.

I think if you make a good movie, people walk away arguing.

I'm a Catholic, you know, not very good news!

I don't have a good thing to say about Eric Bischoff or anything he ever did. Talk about the Midas touch, he was the opposite.

I don't want to sound disingenuous here - controversy is obviously good for business, especially if your business is satire. And it does amplify the discussion - in my view, a good thing.

Any time you can get Glenn Beck crying it's a good thing.

There's no good way to be the center of a media maelstrom you did not choose for yourself.

To be the friend of the one, is of necessity to be the enemy of the other. I love the pure, peaceable, and impartial Christianity of Christ: I therefore hate the corrupt, slaveholding, women-whipping, cradle-plundering, partial and hypocritical Christianity of this land.

Christianity remains to this day the greatest misfortune of humanity.

The Church today is more likely to alienate than to seduce...

This is precisely why the Jews are the most disastrous people in world history: they have left such a falsified humanity in their wake that even today Christians can think of themselves as anti-Jewish without understanding that they are the ultimate conclusion of Judaism.

Our age knows better.... What was formerly merely sickly now becomes indecent—it is indecent to be a Christian today.

May heaven have mercy on the European intellect if one wanted to subtract the Jewish intellect from it.

It is easier to get the attention of the press when one says, as Ibsen4 did, that "two and two make five," than to be orthodox and say that two and two make four.

the modern world has rejected for the last three hundred years (after believing in it for the first sixteen hundred years), namely, the virgin birth of Jesus from His Mother, Mary, who is a virgin.

Unprovable stories about her sexual encounters with a horse have come down to the twenty-first century.

Erasmus argued that the father of the Reformation was wrong—that man does have free will.