Quotes About Controversy

My lyrics aren't offensive. Some people find everything offensive.

There have always been mixed emotions about Howard Cosell: Some people hate him like poison, and other people just hate him regular.

Some people are saying, 'Justin Bieber is racist.' Is he? I don't know.

Some people will always think I've got the eyes of Satan. Others will think I'm a TV god. People have the right to criticise.

People even describe the way I speak as sounding like gurgling with broken glass. Some people can't stand me; they hate my voice.

Some people have compared the Klan images to ecclesiastical figures.

I'm well aware that no matter how big of a jerk I am, some people will cheer me, and no matter what I do, some people will boo me, and that's fine. I just need to elicit emotion. That's all I care about.

There's a feeling among some people that the Republican party is harsh on some things.

When you start punishing and censoring comedians, that's a real bad sign of us as Americans losing our First Amendment rights. As a comedian, I'm gonna push the boundaries. Some things you're going to love, and some things you're going to hate. But this is America. Great people died for us to have this right.

Well, I'd say that the beginning of this thing came through with Art of This Century, Peggy Guggenheim's, where she opened this gallery and began showing some things that caused a little talk, amongst a lot of other things.

Some things are ridiculous and just as us players and coaches need to improve, so does VAR.

You can't be satirical and not be offensive to somebody.

Somebody said that in passing, you know, 'I hate cats.' You know, somebody really hates cats, and I've never figured that one out. And credit to cats - the ability to generate that much animosity, you know.

Just as I wouldn't expect a gynecologist to have a debate with somebody who believes in the Stork-theory of reproduction, I won't do debates with Young Earth creationists.

When you've got somebody who's a flaming liberal like Bill Maher calling you out, something's wrong.

The government, for example, has determined that black people (somehow) have fewer abilities than white people, and, so, must be given certain preferences. Anyone acquainted with both black and white people knows this assessment is not only absurd but monstrous. And yet it is the law.

We will take a few moments and make fun of religious people, and we do this in love. No, we do, because we love to make fun of religious people.

I think it's cool people love to hate me.

Some of the people who hate me love some of the sentences that I have written, until they get to the name of the person to whom the sentences are attributed.

I have never thought that the man of Stratford-on-Avon wrote the plays of Shakespeare.

No one is certain who invented the telephone. Although the U.S. patent belongs to the Scottish-born Alexander Graham Bell, many believe he stole it away from an American inventor named Elisha Gray. Others maintain that an Italian named Manzetti or a Frenchman named Bourseul or a German named Reis or another Italian named Meucci deserves credit.

The air was hot and wet, as if it had absorbed the sweat of countless bodies. It dripped also with scandal.

an idea merely kept to oneself is not heresy unless it be afterwards put forward, obstinately and openly maintained, it should certainly be said that persons such as we have just mentioned are not to be openly condemned for the crime of heresy

Good controversy should not be a quarrel about assumptions