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Quotes About Controversy

I absolutely love Piers Morgan and there's absolutely no point in watching 'Good Morning Britain' if he's not on it.
~ Spencer Matthews
Al Gore had no problem taking hundreds of millions of dollars from the government of Qatar to sell his Current TV to Al Jazeera America.
~ Ben Shapiro
I got no problem with Nas.
~ Lonzo Ball
It is part of the essential Arsenal experience that they are loathed.
~ Nick Hornby
Because some people believe that eating meat is wrong. And other people believe it's bad for you. And some people believe both." "What do we believe?" "I guess we believe both, but we don't care enough to do anything about it.
~ Nick Hornby
In a civilized society freedom to offend should be protected, but
~ Nigel Warburton
HERE LIES A GREEK WHO HATES THE GREEKS.
~ Nikos Kazantzakis
People who call themselves supporters of Israel are actually supporters of its moral degeneration and ultimate destruction.
~ Noam Chomsky
This Sarah Palin phenomenon is very curious. I think somebody watching us from Mars—they would think the country has gone insane.
~ Noam Chomsky
Religion is based on the idea that God is an imbecile.
~ Noam Chomsky
There is no demonstration against Zionism, because even the European Parliament regards such a demonstration as anti-Semitic.
~ Noam Chomsky
one is tempted to believe that some people in the White House worship Aztec gods—with the offering of Central American blood.
~ Noam Chomsky
No podemos evitar abordar cuestiones complejas y controvertidas —especialmente cuando son significativas desde el punto de vista humano— con un punto de vista definido, con intereses personales, si se quiere, y estos intereses tienen que ser evidentes, de manera que aquellos a los que nos dirigimos puedan entender de dónde venimos en nuestras opciones e interpretaciones de los hechos de la historia.
~ Noam Chomsky
If we do not believe in freedom of speech for those we despise we do not believe in it at all.
~ Norm Chomsky
For more than five hundred years the cardinal problem in defining Europe has centred on the inclusion or exclusion of Russia.
~ Norman Davies
I've spent the last fifteen years of my life railing against the game of soccer, an exercise that has been lauded as the sport of the future since 1977. Thankfully, that future dystopia has never come.
~ Chuck Klosterman
outlining how certain fans of 'NSYNC like to imagine Justin Timber lake getting fisted by Lance Bass. Glenn Dixon surmised that much of the Contemporary Christian genre is driven by artists who literally want to fuck Jesus Christ.
~ Chuck Klosterman
It will come to be seen as the persecution of a culture. This makes football akin to the Confederate flag, or Christmas decorations in public spaces, or taxpayer-supported art depicting Jesus in a tank of urine—something that becomes intractable precisely because so many people want to see it eliminated. The game's violence would save it, and it would never go away.
~ Chuck Klosterman
I attempted to make a more academic argument about how the Limp Bizkit song "Nookie" was misogynist for suggesting that the protagonist's ex-girlfriend should inject a cookie into her vagina (or maybe that she should somehow fold her vagina into her rectum — the specific lyrics have never been clear).
~ Chuck Klosterman
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and O. J. Simpson have a lot in common. We don't normally lump them together, because certain key contrasts are tricky — for example, one man is a Muslim intellectual and the other more or less decapitated his ex-wife.
~ Chuck Klosterman
I've obliterated three days trying to come up with an elegant way to write what I'm about to write, but I think the least elegant way is probably best: I like Kanye West.
~ Chuck Klosterman
Before the 1975 fight in Manila, Ali bragged about attending a Ku Klux Klan meeting; he met with the KKK's leadership because they agreed on the issue of interracial marriage (both sides saw it as an atrocity). The
~ Chuck Klosterman
As a consequence, the United States is a safe place for those who want to criticize the government but a dangerous place for those who want to advance unpopular thoughts about any other subject that could be deemed insulting or discomfiting.
~ Chuck Klosterman
The most popular single in the world was "Livin' la Vida Loca," a song about how Pro Tools made Puerto Ricans gay.
~ Chuck Klosterman