Quotes About Controversy

Não há vida, por mais jovem que seja, que não provoque ódios.

Prefiro procurar briga, provocar, prefiro correr o risco de ser detestado. Prefiro servir minha sopa bem salgada.

Nos interesa el límite peligroso de las cosas. El ladrón honesto, el asesino sensible, el ateo supersticioso. ROBERT BROWNING, Apología del obispo Blougram La política en una obra literaria es un tiro de pistola en medio de un concierto, algo grosero pero imposible de ignorar. Estamos a punto de hablar de asuntos muy feos. STENDHAL, La cartuja de Parma

According to a poll of 2005, 42 per cent of the Russian people, and 60 per cent of those over 60 years of age, wanted the return of a 'leader like Stalin'.

An interesting side effect of the battle was that Ender emerged at the top of the soldier efficiency list. Since he hadn't fired a shot, he had a perfect record on shooting—no misses at all. And since he had never been eliminated or disabled, his percentage there was excellent. No one else came close. It made a lot of boys laugh, and others were angry, but on the prized efficiency list, Ender was now the leader.

When the people elected a president like this one, who ran a campaign like the one he ran, it was hard to imagine what kind of scandal might bring him down.

What the world is seeing is that the savior of the world has a little problem – he kills children.

With gay marriage, the last shreds of meaning will be stripped away from marriage, with homosexuals finishing what faithless, selfish heterosexuals have begun.

In my opinion, there are two things that can absolutely not be carried to the screen: the realistic presentation of the sexual act and praying to God.

Every effect that one produces gives one an enemy. To be popular one must be a mediocrity.

I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar and often convincing.

In all matters of opinion, our adversaries are insane.

where he might variously be called a terrorist or a martyr or a murderer or a guerrilla or a freedom fighter

They're a pack of dimpled fuckwits and you can tell them I said so.

Ci sono quattro cose che possono distruggere il mondo, disse. Le donne, il whisky, i soldi e i negri.

Let's hang the turd, called an ugly thug from the gallery...

What is pornography to one man is the laughter of genius to another.

They haven't the brains to be socialists.

I refused to teach Sunday school. When Archdeacon Henry Phillips, my last rector, died, I flatly refused again to join any church or sign any church creed. From my 30th year on I have increasingly regarded the church as an institution which defended such evils as slavery, color caste, exploitation of labor and war.

She's got a certain feisty charm for a racist. Not to mention all those great dead-animal stories.

I understand there was some controversy about the coroner's ruling concerning Josephus Jones's

The dirtiest book of all is the expurgated book.

it is well to heed the old adage—" listen to both sides of the story." Among the many reasons for this, and perhaps most important, is the fact that if everyone is against something (particularly heroin addiction), one can assume that there is something which can be said in its favor.

The Apple III was kind of like a baby conceived during a group orgy, and later everybody had this bad headache, and there's this bastard child, and everyone says, 'It's not mine.