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Quotes About Controversy

You could say that the paparazzi and the tabloids are sort of the assault weapons of the First Amendment. They're ugly, a lot of people don't like them, but they're protected by the First Amendment — just as assault weapons
~ Charlton Heston
Tous les germes de la destruction sociale sont dans la religion de Mahomet.
~ Chateaubriand
I don't like Bush. I don't trust him. I don't like his record. He's stupid. He's lazy.
~ Cher
It's just an idea. There's no harm in ideas." "I ain't so sure of that," said Eddie Karl. "That Hitler had ideas.
~ Chet Williamson
a lot of debating, pontificating, finger-pointing, outrage and no problem-solving. The noise from one controversy will ultimately fade and make way for the next…and then, the next.
~ Chetan Bhagat
There is nothing unusual about such noise. Chances are that if you happen to read this some years later, and turn on the television, you will see a couple of fresh, new controversies—with a lot of debating, pontificating, finger-pointing, outrage and no problem-solving.
~ Chetan Bhagat
Just as people gather on the road to see a fistfight, India gathers at night to watch TV debates.
~ Chetan Bhagat
I think I'll buy a selfie stick so whenever I see someone taking a selfie I can hit them with it.
~ Internet meme
My [c?ck] don't talk politics.
~ S. A. Sachs
You can have my Oxford comma when you pry it from my cold, dead, and lifeless hands.
~ Internet meme, c. 2012
Possible controversy for the Obama campaign: Republicans are now accusing Barack Obama's campaign of voter fraud because some of the people they've registered sound like they have fake names. Apparently, the fakest-sounding name is Barack Obama.
~ Conan O'Brien, 2009
The Fourth of July, when we get to play our favorite American guessing game — fireworks or gunshots?
~ Author Unknown
Too many people use abortion as a form of birth control. And that's very wrong. I could never, ever have an abortion.
~ Brooke Shields
It is impossible to believe that the same God who permitted His own son to die a bachelor regards celibacy as an actual sin.
~ H. L. Mencken
All successful newspapers are ceaselessly querulous and bellicose. They never defend anyone or anything if they can help it; if the job is forced on them, they tackle it by denouncing someone or something else.
~ H. L. Mencken
No matter how much a woman loved a man, it would still give her a glow to see him commit suicide for her.
~ H.L. Mencken
The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all.
~ H.L. Mencken
this man sucked my nuts when I was a kiddo
~ Hammurabi
Petermann's staunchest enemy in Great Britain was Clements R. Markham of the Royal Geographical Society. Markham had come to regard Petermann as a charlatan and a windbag.
~ Hampton Sides
He seemed evidently more fond of controversy than of truth, and the whole turn of his conversation indicated that he derived his religious security rather from the adoption of a party, than from the implantation of a new principle.
~ Hannah More
When I hear the word "culture"… I reach for my pistol.
~ Hanns Johst
The Girl Scouts allow homosexuals and atheists to join their ranks, and they have become a pro-abortion feminist training corps. If the Girl Scouts of America can't get back to teaching real character, perhaps it will be time to look for our cookies elsewhere.
~ Hans Zeiger
Thus, we must realize that October 21, 2011 will be the final day of this earth's existence.
~ Harold Camping
I was determined that no British government should be brought down by the action of two tarts.
~ Harold MacMillan