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Quotes About Controversy

Bush presided over more executions in Texas than any other governor in the state's history, averaging one death every nine days.
~ Richard Dawkins
Why are scientists so cravenly respectful towards the ambitions of theologians, over questions that theologians are certainly no more qualified to answer than scientists themselves?
~ Richard Dawkins
Whenever a controversy arises over sexual or reproductive morals, you can bet that religious leaders from several different faith groups will be prominently represented on influential committees, or on panel discussions on radio or television.
~ Richard Dawkins
A. N. Wilson in Jesus and Robin Lane Fox in The Unauthorized Version (among
~ Richard Dawkins
Why should it be that it's perfectly legitimate to support the Labour party or the Conservative party, Republicans or Democrats, this model of economics versus that, Macintosh instead of Windows—but to have an opinion about how the Universe began, about who created the Universe . . . no, that's holy? . . . We
~ Richard Dawkins
45 per cent of the population of the United States firmly believes, to the contrary, an elementary falsehood: that all species separately owe their existence to 'intelligent design' less than ten thousand years ago.
~ Richard Dawkins
Think about three hundred Donald Trumps walking around here shopping for niggers. 'Look at that one, didn't they shine him up nice? What if I buy that other one, will you make me a deal?' " That
~ Richard Grant
Three generations of imbeciles are enough," Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes declared in an opinion upholding the constitutionality of such a law.
~ Richard J. Herrnstein
The authors] have been cast as racists and elitists and The Bell Curve has been dismissed as pseudoscience . . . . The book's message cannot be dismissed so easily.
~ Richard J. Herrnstein
Once again, academia and the mass media are straining every muscle to suppress debate.
~ Richard J. Herrnstein
The first reactions to The Bell Curve were expressions of public outrage.
~ Richard J. Herrnstein
Yes, and Duchamp too, when he was asked what he thought about God, said, 'Let's not talk about that. That's man's stupidest idea.' — Nikša Gligo (1972)
~ Richard Kostelanetz
Nancy Patricia Pelosi salary is $193,000 In 2009, Nancy Pelosi's net worth was about $20 Million; in 2018 it was about $140 Million. Any questions?
~ Richard Lawless
Others went further: on one of Stanley's expeditions, James Jameson, heir to an Irish whiskey fortune, bought an eleven-year-old girl so he could sketch her being dismembered and eaten.
~ Julian Smith
Instead of engaging in uncharitable controversies, in which everybody insisted that he alone was right, a humble acknowledgement of our lack of insight should draw us together.
~ Karen Armstrong
Reductio ad Hitlerum." Claire couldn't stop quoting Paul. "It's when you compare someone to Hitler to win an argument.
~ Karin Slaughter
I regard anticommunism as a matter of principle an evil even greater than communism itself.
~ Karl Barth
In a meat-eating world, wearing leather for shoes and even clothes, the discussion of fur is childish.
~ Karl Lagerfeld
Do you think horses like to race?
~ Kat Shehata
Please, with the God talk. Hate to break it to you, but there is no God.
~ Howard Stern
But whether a couple is a man and a woman has everything to do with the meaning of marriage.
~ Jack Kingston
If God hadn't meant us to hunt men, he wouldn't have given us Wonder Bras.
~ Kathy Lette
He was definitely known as the foremost man killer in the West; however there's controversy about virtually every killing that he was known to have been involved in.
~ Keith Carradine
I believe marriage is a relationship between a man and a woman.
~ Mitt Romney