Quotes About Controversy

The other goal was to prohibit teaching of evolution. The Klan backed a new law in Tennessee that made it a crime for a public school teacher to explain "any theory that denies the story of Divine Creation of man as taught in the Bible.

Dime algo que sea verdad y con lo que muy poca gente esté de acuerdo".»

He referred to Pope Paul III as "His Hellishness." Were not the pope and his associates at least members of the church? Yes, as much as spit, snot, pus, feces, urine, stench, scab, smallpox, ulcers, and syphilis are members of the body. Luther was never one to mince words.

As these were appearing, however, the official bull of excommunication, Exsurge Domini, was being posted throughout German lands, giving Luther sixty days to recant. Instead, on 10 December 1520 Luther burned the bull (and a copy of canon law) outside the Elster Gate in Wittenberg in protest.

I feel about Photoshop the way some people feel about abortion. It is appalling and a tragic reflection on the moral decay of our society…unless I need it, in which case, everybody be cool.

Many treatises have been written on the gulf in thinking between the Greens and Purples that led to the split (if they can ever have been said to be united), but by far the most famous is The Green and the Purple: Strange Bedfellows, an anonymously-penned sequence in the pro-New Tory political magazine The Professional:

And I thought I would just share with you what science says today about silicone breast implants. If you have them, you're healthier than if you don't. In fact, there's no science that shows that silicone breast implants are detrimental and, in fact, they make you healthier.

Our school systems teach our children that they are nothing but glorified apes who have evolutionized out of some primordial soup of mud, by teaching evolution as fact.

I was in WCW 20 odd years ago and people really didn't like the character I did at the time. It was a different time when you could really hammer that anti-American thing home and people hated it and hated me.

It sounds odd, but it's almost hard to find a piece of negative press about myself.

Oddly, I think that a lot of the haters of EDM and DJs are actually within the world of electronic music.

Scientists and creationists are always at odds, of course.

I had always previously really fed off of negativity and enjoyed being the guy who everybody hated.

I think a bishop who doesn't give offence to anyone is probably not a good bishop.

I'm interested in offence and why people take offence in certain ways about certain things.

If you're not going to offend somebody you don't need the First Amendment.

This is a revolution, damnit! We're going to have to offend somebody!

Every time I give an interview, I seem to offend somebody in my family, usually my mother.

Sometimes I'm convinced that one day I'm going to draw the cartoon that offends everyone, and that'll be the end.

You have to be willing to offend in order to make progress.

I have no wish to offend, but I do think that holy cows need challenging.

You should live hoping you are going to offend people, because then you're doing something.

Every comic says things that are going to offend someone, so we all have to defend each other with this stuff.

I believe in absolute freedom of expression. Everyone has a right to offend and be offended.