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Quotes About Controversy

In every place of worship, I want men to pray with holy hands lifted up to God, free from anger and controversy. —1 Timothy 2:8
~ Gary Chapman
What bothers me most about evolutionary evidence is that it hinges more on faith than faith does.
~ Gary Kurz
But of no nombre mencioun made he, Of bigamye, or of octogamye33. Why sholde men thanne speke of it vileinye34?
~ Geoffrey Chaucer
All great truths begin as blasphemies.
~ George Bernard Shaw
At present, intelligent people do not have their children vaccinated, nor does the law now compel them to. The result is not, as the Jennerians prophesied, the extermination of the human race by smallpox; on the contrary, more people are now killed by vaccination than by smallpox.
~ George Bernard Shaw
Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy.
~ George Bernard Shaw
I find it easy to forgive the man who invented a devilish instrument like dynamite, but how can one ever forgive the diabolical mind that invented the Nobel Prize in Literature?
~ George Bernard Shaw
Decency cannot be discussed without indecency!
~ George Bernard Shaw
Marriage is the most licentious of human institutions . . . that is the secret of its popularity.
~ George Bernard Shaw
We should find ourselves committed to killing a great many people whom we now leave living... A part of eugenic politics would finally land us in an extensive use of the lethal chamber. A great many people would have to be put out of existence simply because it wastes other people's time to look after them.
~ George Bernard Shaw
All truths begin as blasphemies.
~ George Bernard Shaw
The secret to success is to offend the greatest number of people.
~ George Bernard Shaw
Conservatives want live babies so they can train them to be dead soldiers.
~ George Carlin
I think it's the duty of the comedian to find out where the line is drawn and cross it deliberately.
~ George Carlin
Religion has what is EASILY the greatest bullshit story of all time.
~ George Carlin
A flag is supposed to represent everything that a country does. It doesn't only represent the good things. If you burn the flag, you're burning the flag for what you perceive to be the bad things the country has done. it's only a symbol. It's only a piece of cloth.
~ George Carlin
The child molester skipped breakfast, but said he'd grab a little something on the way to work.
~ George Carlin
Fuck rational thought
~ George Carlin
So I do have this ambivalence. Obviously I'm against militaries, because of what militaries do. In many ways though, the air force was unmilitary-like. They dropped bombs on people, but...they had a golf course.
~ George Carlin
They're not pro-life. You know what they are? They're anti-woman. Simple as it gets, anti-woman. They don't like them. They don't like women. They believe a woman's primary role is to function as a brood mare for the state.
~ George Carlin
Catholics are against abortions. Catholics are against homosexuals. But, I can't think of anyone who has less abortions than homosexuals!
~ George Carlin
Why is it that most of the people who are against abortion are people you wouldn't want to fuck in the first place?
~ George Carlin
But, listen, Eddie Merkyx would have won six Tours if he hadn't been punched.
~ Lance Armstrong
So the premise of 'The Submission' is that there's an anonymous competition to design a 9/11 memorial and it's won by an American Muslim, an architect born and raised in Virginia, and his name is Mohammad Khan.
~ Amy Waldman