Quotes About Controversy

Of course in show business there are two ways to play it and I am not politically correct so I am not going to get endorsements or anything like that

When the Supreme Court says baseball isn't run like a business, everybody jumps up and down with joy. When I say the same thing, everybody throws pointy objects at me.

I preume there are far too many abortions performed in this country. And I also believe that at the end of the day, as much as I might disapprove, none of them are really any of my business.

Who's driving this business that the Russians hacked the election? It's the Democrat Party. It's Hillary Clinton. It's Obama. It's all those people who just can't accept that they lost.

Where you can see tribal behavior now is in this business about teaching evolution in a science class and intelligent design. It's the scientists themselves are behaving tribally.

Socrates was likewise right that pissing people off is how we first, and maybe best, go about the business of provoking thought.

Justin Bieber is a douche bag. Now that I have your attention, let's talk about cars.

It became clear when I got in my car that Persians are only really good for two things. Oil and hummus.

Why did Mitt Romney strap his dog to the roof of his car? Could it be because his station wagon was full of wives?

I alienated the automotive industry by saying that cars should be lightweight and compact.

The car crash that took the lives of these two lovely people has been portrayed as a traffic accident caused by a drunk driving at high speed. The reality is that it was murder.

John McCain said that Sarah Palin is still a force in the Republican Party. Then he got in his car and backed over his mailbox.

We stand a chance of getting a president who has probably killed more people before he gets into office than any president in the history of the United States.

God, she says, 'is an unprincipled bastard, wouldn't you agree?

Uh, after the meeting was over, this is what Ã¢â'¬Â¦ I didn't see it but I heard that uh, [Platinum official] Mark [Peretz] Ã¢â'¬Â¦ and uh, his bodyguard [Paris Christoforou of the Hells Angels] I guess Ã¢â'¬Â¦ kicked [Modica] in the face and put a Ã¢â'¬Â¦ gun in his mouth.

They loved and reviled Hitler like no other twentieth-century politician.

Modernism and Fundamentalism are popular—they are two quick and easy answers to a complex question.

I really was put out of Germany for the crime of blasphemy... My offense was to think that Hitler is just an ordinary man

Some of the conclusions that I draw are very different from the ethical views most people hold today. That, however, is not a ground for dismissing them. If every proposal for reform in ethics that differed from accepted moral views had been rejected for that reason alone, we would still be torturing heretics, enslaving members of conquered races, and treating women as the property of their husbands.

The central argument against abortion, put as a formal argument, would go something like this: First premise: It is wrong to kill an innocent human being. Second premise: A human fetus is an innocent human being. Conclusion: Therefore, it is wrong to kill a human fetus. The usual liberal response is to deny the second premise of this argument.

A society that decides its controversial issues by ballots does better than one that uses bullets Ã¢â'¬â€œ which, after all, is no more likely to lead to the right conclusion than voting.

Let's step back from this debate and consider how it affects the question we are currently investigating, the role of war in the rise of archaic states. While there is confusion resulting from competing definitions, and a great degree of controversy about evidence and how to interpret it, all parties agree on one thing: warfare was particularly vicious among pre-state farming societies.

You know that recent Supreme Court ruling where a husband can legally murder his wife if he can prove she wouldn't under any circumstances give him a divorce?

Well, that's marriage these days. Legalized hate.