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Quotes About Controversy

Though they are only 12 percent of the population, blacks commit more than half of all rapes and robberies and 60 percent of the murders in America.6
~ Jared Taylor
The president of Harvard changed admissions rules to keep Jews out
~ Jason Fagone
He's not as bad as everyone makes out. He might buy venerable old companies and strip their assets, causing numerous layoffs and the odd corporate suicide or two, but that's business. Inside, he's a big teddy bear.
~ Jasper Fforde
She's a journalist. She wrote a long piece about whether bears should be allowed to carry weapons for self-defence.' 'The "right to arm bears" controversy?
~ Jasper Fforde
O sea que se puede ser un buen escritor siendo un grandísimo hijo de puta. Qué...
~ Javier Cercas
The Supreme Court has ruled that they cannot have a nativity scene in Washington, D.C. This wasn't for any religious reasons. They couldn't find three wise men and a virgin.
~ Jay Leno
He has. A fucking. Rothko. Over the fireplace
~ Jean Hanff Korelitz
Is Donald Trump getting his brain frozen? asks Ron. Max explains that the brain has to be fully functioning at clinical death.
~ Jeanette Winterson
Witchery popery popery witchery – all the same thing.
~ Jeanette Winterson
You know I've had work banned.
~ Kathy Acker
To think about love and passion and political correctness all together, it doesn't work. Art has to go way past the political to be effective.
~ Louise Erdrich
If they make it illegal to wear the veil at work, bee keepers are going to be furious.
~ Milton Jones
You wouldn't believe the kind of hate mail I get about my work on irregular verbs.
~ Steven Pinker
I think you don't do work for controversy alone, and whenever you do new work which people don't understand and they say it is done to create controversy.
~ M. F. Husain
People love me or hate me and all I think about is the people that I know and suffer with different causes and carry on my charity work and that's what keeps me alive really.
~ Heather Mills
I learned that people like my work because I praise things that others don't like.
~ John Waters
Fights over ideas are the most vicious of all. If it were merely food, or water, or shelter, we would work something out. But in the realm of ideas one can become idealistic .
~ Kim Stanley Robinson
Grantland Rice can go to hell as far as I'm concerned.
~ Gene Autry
I am convinced that I am acting as the agent of our Almighty Creator. By fighting the Jews, I am doing the Lord's work.
~ Adolf Hitler
I am a visible person. I'm visible and I'm controversial. I don't mind if you crave the limelight - but make it work for you!
~ Angela Alioto
In academic circles, especially, I was criticized for lacking morals, values, and ethics. I'm feeding that angry feminist reading of my work.
~ Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook
I often call my current work pornographic - when I don't, I can always be sure someone else will.
~ Unknown
Rick Perry has now accused Mitt Romney of hiring illegal aliens to work on his hair.
~ David Letterman
I have spoken to people in intelligence. And they are big believers in, as an example, waterboarding. Because they say it does work. It does work.
~ Donald Trump