Quotes About Controversy

If Independence is granted to India, power will go to the hands of rascals, rogues, freebooters; all Indian leaders will be of low calibre and men of straw. They will have sweet tongues and silly hearts. They will fight amongst themselves for power and India will be lost in political squabbles. A day would come when even air and water would be taxed in India.

Gandhi... ought to be lain bound hand and foot at the gates of Delhi, and then trampled on by an enormous elephant with the new Viceroy seated on its back. Gandhi-ism and everything it stands for will have to be grappled with and crushed.

If food is scarce, why isn't Gandhi dead yet?

I do not understand the squeamishness about the use of gas. I am strongly in favour of using poison gas against uncivilized tribes. It would spread a lively terror.

He is no better than an epileptic corpse.

I hate Indians. They are a beastly people with a beastly religion

Honey, you're the one who stopped sleeping with me, OK? It'll be a year come April 20th. I remember the date exactly, because it was Hitler's birthday

Arlene and I have to get a divorce. She thinks I'm a pervert because I drank our water bed.

If Jesus came back and saw what's going on in his name, he'd never stop throwing up.

It's about Russia.

If Jesus came back and saw what was going on in his name, he'd never stop throwing-up.

There are still loonies who think I married my daughter, who think Soon-Yi was my child, who think Mia was my wife, who think I adopted Soon-Yi, who think that Obama wasn't American. But there was never any trial. I was never charged with anything, as it was clear to the investigators nothing had ever occurred.

But as I would later learn, Soon-Yi was not just a diamond in the rough but round cut and flawless

Soon-Yi was the one adopted child who stood up to Mia and incurred her wrath.

Soon-Yi had me down for an unperceptive Ignatz who served Mia as a high-profile significant other and kept her career moving.

To quote the usually reasonable and level-headed New York Times, I was "a monster." Somewhere, Kafka was smiling.

Soon-Yi and I had no interest in knowing about each other. I thought she was a quiet, boring kid, and she thought I was her mom's patsy.

You can tell from my movies; while some are entertaining, no idea I ever had is going to start any new religion.

Soon-Yi was not just a diamond in the rough but round cut and flawless.

Not believing in a hereafter, I really can't see any practical difference if people remember me as a film director or a pedophile or at all. All that I ask is my ashes be scattered close to a pharmacy.

The issue was that my lawyers had accused Dershowitz of saying he could make the whole case go away for seven million dollars. Four lawyers in a room testified he made that offer. He denied it furiously, his mother looking on proudly in the courtroom as her son performed.

He seems to be attracting religions the way a dog attracts fleas.

I don't know then. I wrote my book on the Holocaust without worrying about where the fucking bar code would go.

Do you understand? You've been praying to a crucified chimpanzee all these years. Your Son of Man is not a god-he's just an ape on a cross!