Quotes About Controversy

No one, either in the nineteenth century or the twentieth, has ever built a persuasive case proving that dinosaurs as a whole were more like reptilian crocodiles than warm-blooded birds. No one has done this because it can't be done.

He'd been given an assignment to write about teen beauty pageants ... which he'd accepted because he enjoyed blood sports as much as the next person.

Kill a politician and you're tied to the motive that made you pull the trigger.

People say graffiti is ugly, irresponsible and childish. But that's only if it's done properly.

At this time of year it's easy to forget the true meaning of Christianity - the lies, the corruption, the abuse.

Anyone who believes in capital punishment should be shot

Graffiti is not the lowest form of art. Despite having to creep about at night and lie to your mum it's actually the most honest artform available.

People either love me or they hate me, or they don't really care.

People who enjoy waving flags don't deserve to have one

I believe marriage is between a man and a woman. I am not in favor of gay marriage. But when you start playing around with constitutions, just to prohibit somebody who cares about another person, it just seems to me that's not what America's about. Usually, our constitutions expand liberties, they don't contract them.

If you ever want to incite a riot north of New York City, mention raising taxes and see what happens.

We who officially value freedom of speech above life itself seem to have nothing to talk about but the weather.

There is one question that I don't think Gary Condit can answer, and that I think is why we all aimed at Gary Condit, besides the fact that he has a relationship.

It may be taken as axiomatic that any statement of fact about the Middle Ages may (and probably will) be met by a statement of the opposite or a different version.

In every case, the environmental hazards were made known only by independent scientists, who were often bitterly opposed by the corporations responsible for the hazards.

A man and a woman are having drinks when they get into an argument about who enjoys sex more. The man says, "Men obviously enjoy sex more than women. We're completely obsessed with getting laid!" "That doesn't prove anything," the woman countered. "Think about this... when your ear itches and you put your finger in it and wiggle it around, then pull it out, which feels better—your ear or your finger?

Some people just need killing.

I think every good Christian ought to kick Falwell right in the ass.

The problem with 'the crown jewel of Chinese literature' [Dream of the Red Chamber] is that it has two thousand pages and an equal number of characters, and the hero is an effeminate ass who should have either been spanked or decapitated, both ends being equally objectionable.

You say something stupid and the next morning you're in the headlines.

calling the Guantanamo prison "a gated timeshare community in the Northern Caribbean.

The "religious freedom" promoted by Bill O'Reilly, Sarah Palin, the Conference of Catholic Bishops, the Religious Right of Ken Ham and Tony Perkins is a fraud and a scam; it is antithetical to true freedom of conscience and belief.

I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of the peace.

I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.