Quotes About Controversy

I no longer believe that William Shakespeare the actor from Stratford was the author of the works that have been ascribed to him.

This is one race of people for whom psychoanalysis is of no use whatsoever. [speaking about the Irish]

Gustavo Solivellas dice: La humanidad progresa. La gente hoy solamente quema mis libros; siglos atrás me hubieran quemado a mí (Sigmund Freud)

One afternoon Clairaut came over to me with a book in his hand: "Mademoiselle de Beauvoir," he began, in an inquisitorial tone, "what do you make of Brochard who is of the opinion that Aristotle's God would be able to experience sexual pleasure?" Herbaud cast him a disdainful look: "I should hope so, for his sake," he haughtily replied.

there was also a celebrated official sculptor whose works disfigured the whole of Paris

The most scandalous aspect of any scandal is that one gets used to it.

The Marrow Controversy raised a major question about how the gospel is to be preached. But the answer to that question depends on our answer to a more fundamental one: What is the gospel? Contemporary discussion simply underlines how central this question is and the extent to which the answer we give determines how we preach and communicate the gospel.

Am I, perhaps, the kind of Christian who is quick to be caught up in a controversy (which may indeed have its place) while ignoring the call to world evangelism? Then let me remember Boniface, the Sigan-Fu Stone, and most of all, let me remember Jesus Christ crucified and risen from the dead that He might be my Lord.

He called himself an "agnostic" instead of an "atheist" only because he detested the street-bawling, tract-peddling evangelicism of the professional atheists.

Nothing is uncontroversial anymore, and very little is innocent.

I thought Erica Jongs Fear of Flying was one of the biggest pieces of crap that Ive ever read in my life.

We make needless ado about capital punishment,--taking lives, when there is no life to take.

The old law permitted abortion to save one life when two would otherwise die. The new law permits abortion to take one life when two would otherwise live.

The liberals are asking us to give Obama time. We agree...and think 25 to life would be appropriate.

It's millions of leeches from a primitive country come here to leech off you and, with it, they are ruining the schools, the hospitals, and a lot of life in America.

What I Suddenly Understand My job is to make people uncomfortable. + I will do it all my life. ---> My mother, Sasha Blake, is my first victim.

I never was a great Thatcher fan, and it wasn't a sad day in my life when she resigned.

However, we might oppose it, abortion is a sad feature of modern life.

Once the Supreme Court in 1973 decided that infanticide could be legal, it not only ended America's 'inalienable right to life, ' it threw the Golden Rule right off the shores of this continent.

For Republicans, life begins at conception but ends at birth.

To believers, the bible is a holy book, to unbelievers, it is a story book.

Questions about what counts as knowledge are at the heart of most dissensions about religion.

Obviously Christianity is the one true faith, but if Islam is correct, u are fucked. I mean you are power fucked." - John Oliver to Alex McFarland

George Devine's disapproval of Fry, Ustinov and John Whiting was almost startling in its bitterness: 'They're all absolute shit.' It was a little breathtaking. I was only accustomed to this kind of throw-away vehemence from myself.