Quotes About Controversy

I've never tried to be controversial. The truth is controversial enough.

To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Controversy for the sake of controversy is sin. Controversy for the sake of truth is a divine command.

My intent is to tell the truth as I know it, realizing that what is true for me may be blasphemy for others.

Blasphemy is what an old dogma screams at a new truth.

The Bible has noble poetry in it... and some good morals and a wealth of obscenity, and upwards of a thousand lies.

As an atheist, I am angry that we live in a society in which the plain truth cannot be spoken without offending 90% of the population.

By 1968 you can't say 'nigger'—that hurts you. Backfires. So you can say stuff like forced busing, states' rights, and all that stuff.

If England was the mother of the Big Boy, America, she was, I fear, a woman of questionable virtue. No one knows for certain who the father was.

It's okay that you like him," Spam says. "Serial killers are really popular. They get prison married and everything.

Precisamos de líderes que acreditem que o mundo pode ser mudado não com mortes ou disparos, mas pela criação e pela competição. Líderes que prefiram ser controversos pelas razões certas, em vez de populares pelas erradas, líderes que usem a imaginação mais do que a memória.

I wonder if I could eat a child if I had the chance.' 'I doubt if I could cook one,' said Constance.

Joe Biden's been pimping out his son for years.

In absolute terms, I am the most legally persecuted man of all times, in the whole history of mankind, worldwide.

I am the Jesus Christ of politics. I am a patient victim, I sacrifice myself for everyone.

In 2017, three academics—Christian Deutscher, Eugen Dimant, and Brad Humphreys—caused uproar in the German parliament when they published a working paper claiming to have statistical evidence that there were irregular betting patterns associated with two Bundesliga referees officiating between 2011 and 2015.

Still, even after the black winger John Barnes scored his solo goal to beat Brazil in Rio in 1984, the Football Association's chairman was harangued by England fans on the flight back home: "You fucking wanker, you prefer sambos to us.

It's only a short step from a burning bush to a burning heretic, after all. I try not to bother God, and hope He'll do me the same courtesy.

This excerpt includes both a cautionary tale of being caught en flagrante and a stirring defense of getting fucked. Redeeming social value, indeed.

My father's theory… was defined by a hasty press as being this—that God hid the fossils in the rocks in order to tempt geologists into infidelity.

The itch of disputing will prove the scab of churches.

Too much counterpoint; what is worse, Protestant counterpoint.

and she, in turn, had cast a spell over the art world through the magic of controversy.

I do think that really great music will divide people, and people will love and hate it at the same time.