Quotes About Controversy

We are equally far removed from the hosanna of Joseph de Maistre, who wound up by anointing the executioner, and from the sneer of Voltaire, who even goes so far as to ridicule the cross.

Thus, in speaking of Bonaparte, one was free to sob or to puff up with laughter, provided that hatred lay at the bottom.

Mr. Lundberg: "I asked you for your position on capital punishment." Student: "Prone.

I know. I know. Britney Spears is the Antichrist. Got it.

Extreme American gun love really is a lot like American religious faith.

I am not gay, although I wish I were, just to piss off homophobes.

The only difference between Hitler and Bush is that Hitler was elected.

Say what you will about the sweet miracle of unquestioning faith, I consider a capacity for it terrifying and absolutely vile!

Who is the greater criminal: he who robs a bank or he who founds one? (Three Penny Opera)

Writing for a penny a word is ridiculous. If a man wants to make a million dollars, the the best way would be to start his own religion.

You don't get rich writing science fiction. If you want to get rich, you start a religion.

Psychiatrists use tortures you have never even heard of! They drug their patients and send huge jolts of electricity through their brains to destroy nerve responses! And that isn't all! At a whim, they take a steel probe, push it under the eyelids and scramble the prefrontal lobes! They have no intention of curing anyone. They are simply making it impossible for the victim to get well. Ever! AND THEY KNOW IT!

You don't get rich writing science fiction. If you want to get rich, you start a religion.

And you know," Jeanne said, looking down at Sylvia with her hands on her hips, "that's how I want to go. Taking my own way out... and totally pissing everybody off at the end.

That's how I want to go. Taking my own way out and totally pissing everybody off at the end.

The Requerimiento and Its Interpreters" by Lewis Hanke in Revista de Historia de América.

People thought I was a charlatan and a nut. The doctors were against me -- they said that working out with weights would give people heart attacks and they would lose their sex drive.

I'm known for snatching purses, and bombing churches, I get more pussy by accident than most niggas get on purpose.

The most interesting women are always the most whispered about.

Jace suggested that the cast of "Gilligan's Island" could go do something anatomically unlikely with themselves.

In a mud-slinging contest, everybody gets dirty.

Salman Rushdie, indeed any writer who abuses the prophet or indeed any prophet under Islamic law, the sentence for that is actually death.

Here in the United States, the words "sleep training" are as controversial and brimming with emotion as "breast-feeding." Or

For example, in the state of California, it is illegal to have sexual intercourse with someone under the age of 18; yet, in the same state, having sex with a dead body (i.e., necrophilia), does not have a specific criminal code within the penal system (Hickey, 2005).