Quotes About Controversy

Politics in a literary work, is like a gun shot in the middle of a concert, something vulgar, and however, something which is impossible to ignore.

Truth engenders hatred of truth. As soon as it appears, it is the enemy.

What happens when you broadcast the truth is you piss everyone off!

An unbelieved truth can hurt a man much more than a lie. It takes great courage to back truth unacceptable to our times. There's a punishment for it, and it's usually crucifixion.

The first reaction to truth is hatred.

When a new truth enters the world, the first stage of reaction to it is ridicule, the second stage is violent opposition, and in the third stage, that truth comes to be regarded as self-evident.

The truth is libraries are raucous clubhouses for free speech, controversy and community.

My plainness of speech makes people hate me, and what is their hatred but a proof that I am speaking the truth.

First the truth is ridiculed. Then it meets outrage. Then it is said to have been obvious all along.

New truth is old heresy.

You cannot coherently affirm the Christian-truth claim and the dominant model of evolutionary theory at the same time.

I have never seen either a drop of piety or a grain of truth or ingenuousness - nay, I have never found common sense in any Jew.

The truth of the matter is that although not all Muslims are terrorists, unfortunately, in today's world, most of the terrorists - 99 per cent - are Muslim.

The Bible's blind, the Torah's deaf, the Qur'an is mute; if you burned them all together you'd get close to the truth.

I know of no crime that has not been defended by the church, in one form or other. The church is not a pioneer; it accepts a new truth, last of all, and only when denial has become useless.

All great truths begin as blasphemy. Every single revolutionary idea that has ever been visited upon the human experience began as an idea which was rejected.

Truth is disputable, not human taste.

If I told you Jesus Christ was black you're going to be afraid of me because I'm telling you the truth. That's where I always come from.

There are moments when very little truth would be enough to shape opinion. One might be hated at extremely low cost.

We live in a culture where the truth claims of Christianity are not only rejected, they are ridiculed.

In highly charged political matters, one person's ambiguity may be another person's truth.

This year's blasphemy is next year's liberating truth.

All I did was tell the truth. That's is what the whole show is about! And if Politically Incorrect has to go down for it, so be it!

Stop telling the truth about my record!