Quotes About Controversy

Why are black folks singing Amazing Grace which is a song about a white slaver's conversion?

The really amazing part, to me, was when Florida made it into the Final Four, the Democrats didn't demand a recount.

Out of anger comes controversy, out of controversy comes conversation, out of conversation comes action.

I have always been on the side of the heretics, against those who burned them, because the heretics so often turned out to be right....Dead, but right.

The most powerful predictor of what spreads online is anger.

The angriest person in a controversy is the one most liable to be in the wrong.

I've never seen this level of anger at parents who've chosen not to vaccinate their children.

I think there should be holy war against yoga classes.

A book is like a quarrel. One word leads to another, and may erupt in blood or print, irrevocably.

Frederick agreed that the punishment of La Barre was extreme; for his part he would rather have condemned the youth to read the entire Summa theologica of Thomas Aquinas; this, he thought, would be a fate worse than death.

The cleverest defenders of a faith are its greatest enemies; for their subtleties engender doubt and stimulate the mind.

Freedom is hammered out on the anvil of discussion, dissent, and debate. —HUBERT H. HUMPHREY

The united nations is the most concentrated assault on moral reality in the history of free institutions, and it does not do to ignore that fact or, worse, to get used to it.

He never denied it. He never did anything. He never acted like either a nigger or a white man. That was it. That was what made the folks so mad.

I realised that a nigger is not a person so much as a form of behavior.

said, —Monasteries are a good thing for America, they help keep the homosexuals off the streets.

Coldiron is concerned about the townspeople not being priced out of chili dogs, but willing to condone dosing religious protesters, however repellant, with something that turns them into homicidal erotomaniacs?

Marx, Darwin and Freud are the three most crashing bores of the Western World. Simplistic popularization of their ideas has thrust our world into a mental straitjacket from which we can only escape by the most anarchic violence.

The crucifixion should never be depicted. It is a horror to be veiled.

I spit upon your God!

And the precise rating of kisses is terribly difficult rating, often leading to great controversy, because although everyone agrees with the formula of affection times purity times intensity times duration, no ones has ever been completely satisfied with ho much weigh each element should receive.

The film industry, Crafts charged, was in the hands of "the devil and 500 non-Christian Jews

This of course was heresy to Hitler, who accused Otto Strasser of professing the cardinal sins of "democracy and liberalism.

albeit, like so many of the early Nazis, a homosexual