Quotes About Controversy

The sage who engages in controversy with ignorant people must not expect to be treated with honour; and if a fool should overpower a philosopher by his loquacity it is not to be wondered at, for a common stone will break a jewel.

He told me that all whites knew they were devils—"especially Masons.

Why is it that blood, rather than peace, sells?

There's a lot of controversy when it comes to theories about evolution, but when it comes to evolution in the software industry, there's only one theory that makes sense: surviving by learning from experience and usage patterns.

Thus Paul has been used to support systems of cultural conventions oppressive to more than half of the human race. No wonder slaves, women, gays and lesbians, and those who care about them have often found Paul appalling.

Here is a man whose life and actions the world has already condemned - yet whose enormous fortune...has already brought him acquittal!

Penises," I said thoughtfully. "Them again.

Well. Its the penises.

It's like the Vatican's porn collection, Zeb told her. Safe in our hands.

Five members of the heretical sect of Quakers have been arrested, he says, smiling blandly, and more arrests are anticipated.

A rebuke, a palpable rebuke! How dare she? He was already middle-aged when she was born! He could have been her father! He could have been her child molester!

Canlit might not exert the fascination of - say - a venereal wart.

It's astonishing how folks can get so worked up over something that doesn't exist.

Beheading a Queen had not alarmed the populace as much as appointing one Finance Minister would.

Among artists, Pissarro and Monet were Dreyfusard, Degas and Cézanne Anti.

The easiest way to get a reputation is to go outside the fold, shout around for a few years as a violent atheist or a dangerous radical, and then crawl back to the shelter.

For any new technology there is always controversy and there always some fear associated with it. I think that's just the price of being first sometimes.

Happy Thanksgiving! I broke into Best Buy and stole a copy of Pocahontas to celebrate.

Trump says he wants to run for president. Why not? It wouldn't be the first time he pushed a black family out of their home.

The flag that was the symbol of slavery on the high seas for a long time was not the Confederate battle flag, it was sadly the Stars and Stripes.

I've known for a long time that they're a bunch of idiots.

The trouble with born-again Christians is that they are an even bigger pain the second time around.

Are we sure this is a good time to take God out of the Pledge of Allegiance?

There will come a time when the gun owners of America, the law-abiding gun owners of America, will be the Rosa Parks and we will sit down on the front seat of the bus, case closed.