Quotes About Controversy

A curious case that warmed this old ethologist's heart was that of a mathematics professor at a California university who was accused of peeing against a colleague's office door. The two male professors were said to have had a dispute that escalated to a "pissing contest." After someone had found puddles in the hallway, school officials set up a camera and captured the urinating professor on video.

Admiral Stephen Decatur's widely publicized toast in 1816, "our country, right or wrong," struck Adams as not only discordant but immoral.

The passionate controversies of one era are viewed as sterile preoccupations by another, for knowledge alters what we seek as well as what we find.

Throughout its history the SS made a profit on its operations.

Unfortunately the global warming hysteria, as I see it, is driven by politics more than by science.

Jesus died too soon. He would have repudiated His doctrine if He had lived to my age.

Whoever has provoked men to rage against him has always gained a party in his favor, too.

Freedom of speech includes the freedom to offend people.

Mate, it ain't violence if it's religion.

The only way to create something that nobody hates is to ensure that it can't be loved either. Remove enough spice from soup and you'll just end up with water.

I know that many women who read this will see it only as further proof that I am the godless heretic everyone claims. —From Oathbringer, preface

The only way to create something that nobody hates is to ensure that it can't be loved either. Remove enough spice from soup, and you'll just end up with water.

All great art is hated

Banning books is tricky business, Vin—the more stink the Ministry makes about a text, the more attention it will draw, and the more people will be tempted to read it.

I realize that definitions spark controversy and disagreement, but I'm okay with that. I'd rather we debate the meaning of words that are important to us than not discuss them at all.

There's no bad publicity except an obituary.

There is no such thing as bad publicity...except your own obituary

Obscenity is a notable enhancer of life and is suppressed at grave peril to the arts.

The term political correctness has always appalled me, reminding me of Orwell's Thought Police and fascist regimes.

Even so. The papers will be screaming about the fact that the murderer was a cop. There will be new persecution of the force.

The tavern will compare favorably with the church.

She was a whore all the way through – and that was her virtue!

This is not a book, in the ordinary sense of the word. No, this is a prolonged insult, a gob of spit in the face of Art…

This is all a figurative way of speaking about what is unmentionable. What is unmentionable is pure fuck and pure cunt; it must be mentioned only in de luxe editions, otherwise the world will fall apart. What holds the world together, as I have learned from bitter experience, is sexual intercourse. But fuck, the real thing, cunt, the real thing, seems to contain some unidentified element which is far more dangerous than nitroglycerine.