Quotes About Controversy

doggerel to describe her experience in the Whitewater contretemps:

Donald Trump. I

and the Chamber of Commerce was handing out cyanide capsules.

Malcolm J. Moldowsky did not hesitate to address United States Congressman Dave Dilbeck as 'a card-carrying shithead.

Soon after George W. Bush took over the White House after losing the "popular vote"—which in other countries is called the "election"—

Religious sects, established and marginal, and some newly invented for the purpose, were dissecting the theological implications of the Message. Some thought it was from God, and some from the Devil. Astonishingly, some were even unsure.

Voltaire argued that if God did not exist Man would be obliged to invent him, and was reviled for the remark.

Most of us are for freedom of expression when there's a danger that our own views will be suppressed. We're not all that upset, though, when views we despise encounter a little censorship here and there.

the English philosopher John Stuart Mill argued that silencing an opinion is "a peculiar evil." If the opinion is right, we are robbed of the "opportunity of exchanging error for truth"; and if it's wrong, we are deprived of a deeper understanding of the truth in "its collision with error.

Another contemporary example is the "war" on drugs—where the government and munificently funded civic groups systematically distort and even invent scientific evidence of adverse effects (especially of marijuana), and in which no public official is permitted even to raise the topic for open discussion.

No Satan, no God.

Presumably no one would argue that the conservative view on the sum of 14 and 27 differs from the liberal view

he was able to explain to the clergy that 'Women are: "Satan's bait, poison for men's souls".

New things, new ideas arrived and strutted their stuff and were vilified by some and then lo! that which had been a monster was suddenly totally important to the world.

He waited patiently until the uproar had died away. It was amazing, he thought, how people would argue against figures on no better basis than 'they must be wrong'.

You had to stop discussing politics or you would run right into it, causing no damage to anything but yourself.

It's not worth doing something unless you were doing something that someone, somewhere, would much rather you weren't doing.

Some Church experts estimate that from 30 percent to fully one half of the forty-five thousand U.S. priests are gay.

I was a fan of Jon Jones. I thought he was great.

You don't see many Jon Jones's.

You've got Jon Jones, for instance. That guy is the best, one of the best fighters in the world, but he's a cheater.

Jon Jones is the best fighter in history.

When's the last time CNN broke an important story or really made the government angry? I literally can't remember. That's because they're built to be inoffensive. They do the opposite of watchdog journalism. They simply pass on the government's message to their audience.

In the end, Dan Rather's legend skewered him, CBS and the craft of journalism.