Quotes About Controversy

There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.

There are people who wish to draw attention to themselves by attacking me

Socialism is a dead horse.

Argument is the worst sort of conversation.

Unquestionably, the world is better off without Saddam.

I am glad you like what I said of Mrs. Elizabeth Fry (prison and mental hospital reformer). She is very unpopular with the clergy; examples of living, active virtue disturb our repose and give one to distressing comparisons; we long to burn her alive.

It's so sad: anything that has to do with God, people want to dispel.

Nash was respected but not well liked.

The Playboy Foundation provided $10,000—and the use of Playboy's offices as an assembly line, where volunteers, mostly senior citizens, were provided with foldout tables and free coffee and sandwiches while building the first of these revolutionary kits. "I took a lot of flak from the women's movement—but too bad," Goddard says. "If it was Penthouse or Hustler, no. But Playboy? Please, give me a break.

Extinguished theologians lie about the cradle of every science as the strangled snakes beside that of Hercules.

It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.

It's one of the finest highway networks in the world—and nobody seems to care that the basic idea was copied from the Nazis.6     EISENHOWER

I always have believed that we should not call it an Arab-Israeli issue or a Palestinian-Arab dispute or a peace negotiation. I think we should call it what it is: an occupation of Palestine, full stop. This is not a popular position in mixed company.

I'm healthy, have a loving and adorable family, great hunting dogs, a gravity defying musical career and most importantly, fuzzy-headed idiots hate me.

If guns cause crime, all of mine are defective.

Pour water on a sportswriter -- instant horseshit.

Some of my books sort of have a provocative take. Sometimes you find interesting things about characters that show they weren't necessarily the way people usually see them. It can make for lively conversations, but that's great. Spark a little controversy, get people to think about it. That's what it's all about.

Think about it: If you were publicly branded a racist on an issue of public debate, might you not next time hesitate to speak out, write your elected representatives or go to a meeting? That's a chilling effect - and undermines the First Amendment.

You'll never get me to speak religion. You'll never get me to speak politics.

I think it is important for me to speak out on social issues. Sometimes people will agree with me. Sometimes people will disagree with me. I don't take that personally.

Should Planned Parenthood be defunded, women will still have access to great quality healthcare. Speaking as a former Planned Parenthood director, I know that quality health care is best provided outside of Planned Parenthood.

I'm speaking out against social media bias.

My whole life is controversy. What can I do? I'm like Britney Spears!

There are so many odd things that happened that are centered around Britney Spears it's kind of amazing. There's just so many cultural moments centered around her existence and nothing else.