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Quotes About Controversy

Science has proof without any certainty. Creationists have certainty without any proof.
~ Ashley Montagu
The trial began on January 17, 1977, the same day Gary Gilmore was shot in Utah. Gary Gilmore was the first person legally executed since the death penalty was struck down by the u.s. supreme kourt in the early 1970s. His execution set the climate for the trial.
~ Assata Shakur
The defense team's headquarters, located in New Brunswick, was broken into, papers rummaged through and stolen, and the judge refused to investigate, calling the motion "frivolous.
~ Assata Shakur
Some say that this is the Israelis' original sin. With this I do not agree but I think we can call it Israel's immaculate misconception.
~ Avishai Margalit
Force and rape are not an issue because he is a believing Muslim and he is an Osman Mahamud.
~ Ayaan Hirsi Ali
American liberals today are hesitant to speak out against the denial of rights that is perpetrated in the name of Islam.
~ Ayaan Hirsi Ali
For today, it seems, speaking the truth about Islam is a crime. "Hate speech" is the modern term for heresy.
~ Ayaan Hirsi Ali
In no other modern religion is dissent still a crime, punishable by death.
~ Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Let me make my point in the simplest possible terms: Islam is not a religion of peace.
~ Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Francis Crick, co-winner of the 1962 Nobel Prize in Medicine for the discovery of the structure of the DNA molecule, reportedly experimented with LSD while working on the problem. Though he never confirmed the rumors, friends insist that he told them he actually conceived of the double-helix shape during an LSD trip.*2
~ Ayelet Waldman
As the commission tartly noted, no two religious divines could agree on the definition of a Muslim. If the members of the commission tried imposing a definition of their own, the ulema would unanimously declare them to have gone outside the pale of Islam. Adopting the definition of any one religious scholar entailed becoming an infidel in the eyes of all the others.
~ Ayesha Jalal
Hatred of Muslims sold. As the editor of The Sun said after facing a ruling on a separate incident, he would do the exact same thing again.
~ Azadeh Moaveni
Science is human behavior, and so is the opposition to science. What
~ B.F. Skinner
Faith doth both admit and reject disputation with difference.
~ bacon francis ix
I've got a pot in my studio that is just a bitter rant against the art world. I call it my Dorian Gray.
~ Grayson Perry
The free market allowed shock jocks to flourish, and millions of listeners apparently enjoyed the rant.
~ Christine Pelosi
Nothing irritates me more than going to see an artist and paying all this money and then have them rant about very specific political opinions.
~ John Corabi
Rap is just to me very annoying.
~ James Hetfield
Jay Z and Nas is probably my favorite rap beef because Nas was kinda quiet for a while.
~ Cam'ron
I think rap is creating a reverse racism.
~ Eddie Rabbitt
I want the feuds to come back - there aren't enough rap feuds anymore. I want a serious rap-off.
~ Phoebe Tonkin
Lil Boat 2' people liked, but it was all rap. Some thought it was too much.
~ Lil Yachty
When Elton John sang a duet with the white rapper Eminem on a Grammy telecast, rap went mainstream. Massive parental headaches followed.
~ Bill O'Reilly
When I first heard 'Pearly Gates' by Mobb Deep and 50 Cent growing up, the rapper Prodigy had a line about wanting to beat Jesus up. I wasn't religious, but I'd never been introduced to something like that. I was scared and mad, but then I asked why I felt like that.
~ JPEGMAFIA