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Quotes About Controversy

Bipartisanship is another name for date rape.
~ Grover Norquist
Democrats are people who raise your taxes and spend your money on weird stuff. They steal your guns, and they spit on your faith.
~ Grover Norquist
It was in this atmosphere of war, heroism, and controversy that my wife's grandmother, Johanna Boel Sigurdardottir, met and fell in love with Samuel Emmett Hearn Jr. He was a gallant soldier, and she was a natural beauty.
~ Gudjon Bergmann
The majority of exposed penises in major museums belong to the Baby Jesus.
~ Guerrilla Girls
The treatment of the Negro is America's greatest and most conspicuous scandal.
~ Gunnar Myrdal
McDonald, who was known to hate policemen, was once approached by two cops for a two-dollar donation. "We're burying a policeman," one of them said, to which Mike responded, "Here's ten dollars. Bury five of them.
~ Gus Russo
It is hard to please everyone. It is impossible to tell you all the insults my painting of this year has won me, but I don't care, for when I am no longer controversial I will no longer be important.
~ Gustave Courbet
You can calculate the worth of a man by the number of his enemies, and the importance of a work of art by the harm that is spoken of it.
~ Gustave Flaubert
Her creamy child kissed by the black maid! square on the mouth! World yelled, world writhed, world turned to light and rolled Into her kitchen, nearly knocked her down.
~ Gwendolyn Brooks
All successful newspapers are ceaselessly querulous and bellicose. They never defend anyone or anything if they can help it; if the job is forced upon them, they tackle it by denouncing someone or something else.
~ H. L. Mencken
In the context of that debate, chaos brought an astonishing message: simple deterministic models could produce what looked like random behavior. The behavior actually had an exquisite fine structure, yet any piece of it seemed indistinguishable from noise. The discovery cut through the heart of the controversy. As May looked at more and more biological systems through the prism of simple chaotic models, he continued to see results that violated the standard intuition of practitioners.
~ James Gleick
True that Huxley was attacked for teaching that men and monkeys were somewhat the same; but he was never exiled for refusing to teach that Jews and Gentiles were altogether different.
~ James Hilton
Dear Santa.... Are you going to be banned too, for saying HO HO HO and will they say you are a pedophile for breaking into houses and enticing kids with toy's. If they do. I will still believe in you.
~ James Hilton ( Cowboy)
The more you stir up crap the more it's going to smell.
~ James Hilton ( Cowboy)
There is no heresy or no philosophy which is so abhorrent to the church as a human being.
~ James Joyce
He called me a jew, and in a heated fashion, offensively. So I, without deviating from plain facts in the least, told him his God, I mean Christ, was a jew too, and all his family, like me, though in reality I'm not. That was one for him. A soft answer turns away wrath. He hadn't a word to say for himself as everyone saw. Am I not right?
~ James Joyce
Maybe YOU should suck my fuckin' dick. Then we'll see who's GAY.
~ James Kochalka
if you haven't noticed, the United States government is the biggest weapons manufacturer in the world.
~ James Lee Burke
We're living in weird times, Streak. I bet forty percent of the country wouldn't mind firing up the ovens as long as the smokestacks are blowing downwind.
~ James Lee Burke
The art world is controlled by a handful of people in New York. Most of them are idiots who think a screened-in piece of ham swarming with flies constitutes expression. There are many fraudulent aspects to American life, but the art world is probably the most egregious.
~ James Lee Burke
Hooker was a controversial choice, but he did everything right in his first three months of command and appeared to have vindicated Lincoln's decision until he stumbled at Chancellorsville.
~ James M. McPherson
a spokesman for the Sons of Confederate Veterans
~ James M. McPherson
In America, as Mr. Dooley once remarked, people build their triumphal arches out of brick so that they will have something handy to throw at the hero when he comes through.
~ James MacGregor Burns
The Star-Spangled Banner,'" she scoffed. "I never did like that old lying, lollygagging, hypocritical, warring-ass drinking song. With the bombs bursting in air and so forth.
~ James McBride