Quotes About Controversy

It may be that the carbon tax is the final chapter in the strange death of Labor Australia.

Under Mr. Corbyn, Labour are a shambles.

The Labour Party of today has fits of horrors of the very thought of somebody like me might saying that they bought in white Australia. But I believe they did.

Whatever you think of Facebook, you cannot fault it for lack of ambition.

En trouwens, alleen al hoe ze elkaar begroetten! Ze pakten elkaars handen vast. Is dat normaal? Het moet onhygiënisch zijn en bovendien zo intiem dat het beschamend is. Ekaars lichamen zo aan te raken, opzettelijk! Ze beweerden dat het een heel oude begroeting was, die ze nieuw leven hadden ingeblazen, maar je hoefde het niet te doen als je niet wilde, je werd nergens toe gedwongen.

papal tyrant the like of whom has not been seen for many centuries.

[D]rugs being tested on animals. That sort of thing, well, it depends, doesn't it? If the drug's aspirin and the monkey's got a headache, is it tight?

The Catholic Church hadn't helped the Jews during the war, even though Pope Pius XII had been informed early on in the war of their plight.

A right includes the freedom to use it in ways others find distressing or even wrong.

We need to see abortion as an urgent practical decision that is just as moral as the decision to have a child—indeed, sometimes more moral.

When the Viennese doctor Ignaz Semmelweis insisted that delivery room doctors and medical students wash their hands before attending their patients, he was ridiculed, even though the practice dramatically reduced death from puerperal sepsis. In 1865, when Semmelweis died, his simple but radical idea was still discounted.

But when The Prince of Tides came out, thank God she was dead. I'm not sure I would have had the guts to publish that with her still alive.

Tolerance will reach such a level that intelligent people will be banned from thinking so as not to offend the imbeciles.

I doubt that," I said. "I can argue with anything.

The aggressive use of new medical tools went beyond castration. Dr. Marion Sims discovered a condition called "vaginismus," in which a woman felt such pain from intercourse she was unable to bear penetration. He prescribed surgery, but another treatment was to put the woman under anesthesia so her husband was able to have sex with her. Sims described one case in which a physician had to visit the couple two or three times a week to anesthetize the woman before lovemaking.

But it does move!

Eppur si muove.

Teaching of Maths and Science mean teaching of Truths; this teaching of natural truths is forbidden in Madrasa. In Quran the Sun revolves around the Earth even in 21st century!

The god who is reputed to have created fleas to keep dogs from moping over their situation must also have created fundamentalists to keep rationalists from getting flabby. Let us be duly thankful for out blessings.

I think the most un-American thing you can say is "You can't say that."

The most un-American thing you can say is, 'You can't say that.

When you're young, with less on the line, it's easier to be audacious, to experiment. So I introduced the concerns of my generation - politics, sex, drugs, rock-and-roll, etc. - to the comics page, which for many years caused a rolling furor.

Ben Harrison is a dick-faced troll!

He also made all Muslims publicly forswear that part of their Holy Quran which permits them to dupe, cheat and kill all who are not of Islam.