Quotes About Controversy

Liberals and conservatives actually move further apart when they read about research on whether the death penalty deters crime, or when they rate the quality of arguments made by candidates in a presidential debate, or when they evaluate arguments about affirmative action or gun control.39

Listen, I'm going to tell you this because no one else will, Franklin. Spider-Man sucks.

heresy was often perceived by the Church as a financial or political threat rather than merely a theological one.

Ironically, but also tellingly, the same charges had been laid against the first Christians by their adversaries in ancient Rome, where Christianity was similarly regarded as a secret cult whose members killed and ate babies in the course of the demoniacal sex orgies that served as their worship service.

Mum is sexing David.' It isn't sexing, it is having sex with.

Difference in opinions has cost many millions of lives: for instance, whether flesh be bread, or bread be flesh; whether the juice of a certain berry be blood or wine.

I think my first album opened a lot of doors for me to push the freedom of speech to the limit.

When I say I'll murder my baby's mother, maybe I wanted to but I didn't. Anybody who takes it literally is 10 times sicker than I am.

I say what I want to say and do what I want to do. There's no in between. People will either love you for it or hate you for it.

fuck money, I don't rap for dead presidents, I'd rather see the president dead, it's never been said, but I said precedents.

I don't give a fuck, God sent me to piss the world off.

fuck money, I don't rap for dead presidents, I'd rather see the president dead, it's never been said, but I set precedents.

los muertos por mal que lo hayan hecho siempre salen a hombros»

la Revolución ha sido la gran Diosa, la Amada eterna y la gran Puta de poetas y novelistas. Octavio Paz, «La letra y el cetro», septiembre de 1972.

Membership in the Nazi Party was even forbidden by the Church for some time.

When circumcising an infant child, the circumciser is as far from Jesus' Golden Rule as they can be.

it doesn't matter if people love you or hate you, as long as they feel strongly one way or the other. The worst place you can be is in the middle.

controversy creates cash.

The war vindicated their conviction, itself a product of the slavery controversy, that freedom stood in greater danger of abridgment from local than national authority (a startling reversal of the founding fathers' belief, enshrined in the Bill of Rights, that centralized power posed the major threat to individual liberties).

Sports and politics don't mix.

A heresy can spring only from a system that is in full vigor.

Fuck you very much, the FCC. Fuck you very much for fining me. Five thousand bucks a fuck, So I'm really out of luck. That's more than Heidi Fleiss was charging me.

He concluded, "I'm sure there will be lawyers all over this thing if the citizens of Frederick County decided they wanted to join (West Virginia).

What we do know for certain is that he made up his mind to take the 125 wagons with him into Pennsylvania. The decision triggered a controversy that has raged for more than 140 years.