Quotes About Controversy

If you're remarkable, it's likely that some people won't like you. That's part of the definition of remarkable. Nobody gets unanimous praise–ever. The best the timid can hope for is to be unnoticed. Criticism comes to those who stand out.

Andrew Johnson. He had been lying rather low since the inauguration, yet he showed this evening that he had lost none of his talent for invective on short notice.

McCarthy was remarkable for a simple but matchless talent: he lied endlessly and spectacularly. No matter how often the lies were brought to light, he plunged on, exposing one after another alleged spy, traitor, red, or pinko, and in the process recklessly damaging or ending careers.

If God were good, why would he create Rush Limbaugh?

Every time they ban the book, it becomes national headlines. I sell more books, so it's actually lucrative for me. We call Banned Books Week in my house "Big-Assed Royalties Week.

The two funniest tribes I've ever been around are Indians and Jews, so I guess that says something about the inherent humor of genocide.

So, yeah, honestly speaking, fuck you, Xavier, and the farm-raised salmon you rode in on.

I'm loved by some, hated by many, envied by most, yet wanted by all. (Josiah)

Men are the scourge of the universe. I say we line them all up along the highway and then mow them down with big trucks. No, wait! Steamrollers! Yeah, let's steamroll them all until they're nothing more than slimy wet spots on the road! (Chrissy)

Yesterday, the country of Kosovo unveiled an 11-foot tall statue of former President Clinton. Yeah. That's right. The Clinton statue is so life-like, it's already been slapped 12 times.

It was at a vividly bad time in Norman Mailer's life that I met him, and a sort of water-treading time in mine. He had stabbed his wife, and I was a copy boy at Time magazine.

When you look at Trump, you can really see someone who's destructive to any form of life enhancement in virtually every area.

Life begins at conception, but allow early abortions.

There was altogether too much candor in married life; it was an indelicate modern idea, and frequently led to upsets in a household, if not divorce.

I don't think Edward Snowden deserves a death penalty or life in prison. I think that's inappropriate. I think that's why he fled, [because] that is what he faced.

I don't believe the fertilised egg can be equated with the sort of human life that you and I represent, or our children represent.

It's impossible to go through life not offending people. All you have to do is basically have an opinion on anything, and you're gonna offend people.

[…] life is just the misery left between abortion and euthanasia […]

When I was a kid I went to Catholic school, and they used to drag us out to pro-life rallies and stuff full of crazy people.

It is a real issue, a measurement of our society, when we say it's fine to destroy unborn life who has a heartbeat at 16 days post-conception.

Apparently, the line you take on Israel trumps everything else in life.

I'm against the partial-birth abortion, but you've got to have an exception for the life of the mother and the health of the mother under the strictest test of bodily injury to the mother.

The type of religion which rejoices in the pious sound of traditional phrases, regardless of their meanings, or shrinks from "controversial" matters, will never stand amid the shocks of life.

The issue that a political campaign would make a human life into - you know - a political football, is unsettling.