Quotes About Controversy

In this respect, religion is not unlike racism. One version of it inspires and provokes the other.

To many of us, the claims of Prophet Muhammad to be a Prophet are absurd! Of course we have the right to do that, just as we have the right to represent unchaste nuns, and child-raping priests, and the other people who also claim a special right, because they claim that their own bigotry is divine.

Christopher Hitchens

Every single step toward the clarification of this argument has been opposed root and branch by the clergy.

I'm afraid, ha, ha, I find more inspiration in the Marquis de Sade.

Oh, do fuck off. You Muslims and your aversion to drink. Fucking slaughter the greater part of the Western fucking world in Allah's name, but someone wants to toast to your health and suddenly it's all piety, prayer, throw out the pork, and let's put draperies around the women.

Soon a whole guild of low-priced shrine keepers around Europe named their own pope - Boldface the Relatively Shameless, Discount Pope of Prague. The price war was on [...] The Retail Pope would offer cheesy bacon toppings on the Host with communion and the Discount Pope would counter with topless nun night for midnight mass.

You're the one with almost an MBA, Barry, the short balding one, said to Lash. You should know what to do. They don't cover what to do with a dead hooker, Lash countered. That's a whole different program. Political science, I think.

They don't cover what to do with a dead hooker. That's a whole different program. Political science, I think.

Within hours after Wise's appearance before the press, the State Department issued a statement distancing itself from Wise and refusing to back up his contention that Hitler had begun to exterminate the Jews of Europe.

If there are loud and angry people on only one side of a debate, it probably means the other side simply does not have a spokesperson.

Out of anger comes controversy, out of controversy comes conversation, out of conversation comes action.

Waarom staat in de evangeliën niet wie er in Kana getrouwd is? Omdat het de bruiloft van Jezus zelf was, een bruiloft waarover niet gesproken kon worden omdat hij trouwde met een zondares, Maria Magdalena. (p.385)

But often the treasures of learning must be defended, not against the simple but, rather, against other learned men.

Call Bogomil that whore you screw at night, with your heretic cock, you pig!

A large section of the idling classes of England get their incomes by believing that Jesus was born of a virgin and that Jonah swallowed a whale; and with the progress of science they were naturally finding this more and more difficult. A school of ingenious Bible-twisters arose, to invent symbolical and literary meanings for fairy tales, in order that people who no longer believed could continue with good conscience to collect the salaries of belief.

but no, if she had been here, he would have been driven to take the side against her. This wasn't perversity, he would insist; he was trying to see the problem from all of its many sides, and argued against all persons who wanted to see only one side.

wartime it appeared that nobody wanted to see both sides of any question.

He smiled gently, being sorry for her. "Mother dear, I am one of those unlucky people who have to stand in the middle and get the brickbats from both sides. I see the good in both and I see the evil. But if you point that out the fanatics on both sides want to kill you.

Protestors? At a funeral?

I had seen how deep in nearly every West Indian, high and low, were the prejudices of race; how often these prejudices were rooted in self-contempt; and how much important action they prompted. Everyone spoke of nation and nationalism but no one was willing to surrender the priviledges or even the separateness of his group.

DDT now belongs to the category of inventions that were not just welcome but seen as truly transformative, only to be relegated to the class of undesirable advances.

one can imagine what a candidate Trump would have done with the Wright-Obama connection had he been the 2008 Republican nominee.

Gans and Savigny controversy; he took Savigny, he took Gans, read