Quotes About Controversy

My second play, The Birthday Party, I wrote in 1958 - or 1957. It was totally destroyed by the critics of the day, who called it an absolute load of rubbish.

Constitutional rights do not always have easily ascertainable boundaries, and controversy over the meaning of our Nation's most majestic guarantees frequently has been turbulent. As judges, however, we are sworn to uphold the law even when its content gives rise to bitter dispute.

If we don't get gun-control laws in this country, we are full of beans. To have the National Rifle Association rule the United States is pathetic. And I agree with Mayor Michael Bloomberg: It's time to put up or shut up about gun control for both parties.

Had there been a lunatic asylum in the suburbs of Jerusalem, Jesus Christ would infallibly have been shut up in it at the outset of his public career. That interview with Satan on the pinnacle of the Temple would alone have damned him, and everything that happened after could but have confirmed the diagnosis.

It is only the great men who are truly obscene. If they had not dared to be obscene, they could never have dared to be great.

The real inferiority of women to men is shown by their hate of paederasty , which they regard as unfair competition. Men on the other hand rather approve of Sapphism , as saving them trouble & expense. — Aleister Crowley . 1929-03-09 diary entry.

During a Middle East peace talk you insulted the Iraqi ambassador." "He was a pervert who liked little girls.

I exposed the deputies who give favorable treatment to celebrities for drunk driving and wife beating. They hate me, too.

They have sex so loud it scares our dog. I wanted to call you about it, but my wife says it's not a crime. Is it?

I've never seen black men with fine white women. They be ugly. Mugly dogs.

The only interesting thing about religion is how many people it's slaughtered.

The difference between the two sides of the schism, is that one side puts out fires, and the other starts them.

I learned lots of dirty jokes very young. There was this girl who told me them. The gang I led went in for shoplifting and pulling girls' knickers down. Other boys' parents hated me.

Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn't argue with that; I'm right and I will be proved right. We're more popular than Jesus now; I don't know which will go first -- rock and roll or Christianity. Jesus was all right, but his disciples were thick and ordinary. It's them twisting it that ruins it for me.

I guess what happens is, if you get arrested in Town A (Philadelphia) and then Town B (San Francisco)--with a lot of publicity--then when you get to Town C they have to arrest you or what kind of sh*thouse town are they running?

A lot of people say to me, Why did you kill Christ? I dunno... it was one of those parties, got out of hand, you know. We killed him because he didn't want to become a doctor, that's why we killed him.

Now a Jew, in the dictionary, is one who is descended from the ancient tribes of Judea, or one who is regarded as descended from that tribe. That's what it says in the dictionary; but you and I know what a Jew is -- One Who Killed Our Lord. And although there should be a statute of limitations for that crime, it seems that those who neither have the actions nor the gait of Christians, pagan or not, will bust us out, unrelenting dues, for another deuce.

President Bush and Bill Clinton both agree that cloning is morally wrong. Clinton said that he thinks humans should be made the old-fashioned way -- liquored up in a cheap hotel room.

A Libyan rebel has admitted to killing Moammar Gadhafi. He said he shot Gadhafi twice in the temple, to which Michele Bachmann said, "I didn't even know the guy was Jewish."

According to the L.A. Times, Attorney General John Ashcroft wants to take "a harder stance" on the death penalty. What's a harder stance on the death penalty? We're already killing the guy? How do you take a harder stance on the death penalty? What, are you going to tickle him first? Give him itching powder? Put a thumbtack on the electric chair?

A 66-year-old deputy U. S. attorney general in South Carolina named Roland Corning lost his job after police discovered him at a cemetery with an 18-year-old stripper, a bag of sex toys, and a bottle of Viagra. To be fair, people do grieve differently.

The Republican debate got pretty heated. They spent most of their time arguing over who God called first.

Well, Joe Biden has done it again. He showed up at the White House Passover Seder with a bunch of ham sandwiches.

In South Korea, a scientist considered to be one of the pioneers in the field of cloning has been sentenced to two years in prison. At least, they think it's him ...