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Quotes About Controversy

It used to be that kids used to drive to school, they might have their hunting rifle in the back of their truck. Principals kept a gun in their office. Coaches might keep a gun and their office kids were protected at school. But Joe Biden passed gun-free school zones, and we were for the first time unprotected.
~ Marjorie Taylor Greene
Trump wants to repeal birthright citizenship for children of illegal aliens, so Fox has joined conventional liberal opinion in opposing it. Welcome to Fox's My Spin Zone.
~ Tom Tancredo
You know, being the artist and not knowing when you sometimes create a song, you don't think about whether it's gonna start controversy or whatever. Sometimes you just write and you're in the zone.
~ Big Freedia
There is no such thing as bad publicity except your own obituary.
~ Brendan Behan
The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.
~ Bertrand Russell
Obscenity is whatever gives a judge an erection.
~ Anonymous American Lawyer
Christians have burned each other, quite persuaded That all the apostles would have done as they did.
~ Lord Byron
People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted, and at seeing it practised.
~ Samuel Butler
Many a sober Christian would rather admit that a wafer is God than that God is a cruel and capricious tyrant.
~ Edward Gibbon
Some say, compared to Bononcini, That Mynheer Handel's but a ninny; Others aver, that he to Handel Is scarcely fit to hold a candle: Strange all this difference should be, 'Twixt Tweedle-dum and Tweedle-dee!
~ John Byrom
They love him most for the enemies that he has made.
~ General E. S. Bragg
You must not miss Whitehall. At one end you'll find a statue of one of our kings who was beheaded; at the other, the monument to the man who did it. This is just an example of our attempts to be fair to everybody.
~ Thomas Appleton
It's a sign of your own worth sometimes if you are hated by the right people.
~ Miles Franklin
A little public scandal is good once in a while - takes the tension out of the news.
~ Beryl Pfizer
However much people want to politicize every movement of a controversial woman in life or on the screen, we just have to keep being personal and truthful, or we will explode.
~ Phoebe Waller-Bridge
Truthfully, I think anything involving Tebow opens people's eyes.
~ Spencer Paysinger
It is the customary fate of new truths, to begin as heresies, and to end as superstitions.
~ Thomas Huxley
Good luck trying to cancel me.
~ Logan Paul
I do not have a problem, I enjoy gambling, but I think people are trying to make it seem like I have a problem, because people really don't know.
~ Michael Jordan
I'm not trying to make a big deal out of this. It's just the things Donald Trump says are crazy. You can't say those things. You shouldn't say those things.
~ Jim Boeheim
Shortly after her feeding tube is removed, Terri Schiavo receives the Catholic ceremony of last rites. Michael Schiavo stays in a room down the hall. He remains at his wife's side throughout the day, except when her immediate family comes to see Terri.
~ Mark Fuhrman
People make these comments all the time. They talk about this with their loved ones every day. People's feedings - tube feedings - are stopped across this country every day.
~ Michael Schiavo
It is inconceivable that releasing an illegal immigrant that could cause a tuberculosis pandemic here in the U.S. would ever be considered as a possible option.
~ Paul Gosar
As far as I am concerned, LGBT can only stand for leprosy, gonorrhea, bacteria, and tuberculosis, all of which are detrimental to human existence.
~ Yahya Jammeh