Quotes About Controversy

Che abandoned his first wife, Hilda, a Peruvian woman of Indian extraction, for a taller, blonder trophy wife (also named Aleida). Their 1959 wedding in Havana was the social event of the year and featured Raul Castro as "best man." After he married Aleida, Che would continue to "upgrade" his women, taking the worldly Tamara "Tania" Bunke, born of German parents in Argentina, as his mistress.

They'll nail anyone who ever scratched his ass during the national anthem.

I just think Texas and that whole Bible Belt section is so, like, corporate. And I don't agree with organized religion in that respect.

I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.

Over the years the political establishment has frowned if a mainstream politician mentions marriage.

Donald Trump: perhaps best described as "a bull in search of a china shop". John Stimpson Clanfield, Hampshire

Like a new nation, Wikipedia inspires not only fanatic loyalty but also moral and civic dogmatism. Just as the U.S. uses its "Peace Corps" to rehabilitate imperial depredation with a bushy-tailed front group who teach ancient cultures how to take a dump, Wikipedia gives the radio-active bacteria mound of the Internet a fresh coat of paint.

Donald Trump is Dumbfuckistan incarnate. Just as Sarah Palin was its head cheerleader, Trump is its star quarterback. It was hardly surprising that she showed up in Iowa to endorse him, delivering a speech that made her sound like a drunken stroke victim. They made quite a pair, standing on stage: the unstoppable farce meets the unshameable object. Trump

Because someone else will mention it to you anyway, I will list Stephen Jay Gould 's book ( The Mismeasure of Man ). It gets the psychometrics wrong, it is wrong on brain size and intelligence, and it is written with strong anti-IQ-testing bias.

Everything you do from waking till sleeping is against somebody's Bible, Cafferty.

I do not wish to live in a society where you are stoned for adultery. I prefer to live in a society where we get stoned first, and then commit adultery.

If you believe that I'm a cop killer, you believe David Bowie is an astronaut.

The shit hit the fan in '92 because that was an election year—"Cop Killer" was a ready-made target for the president, the vice president, and the NRA.

But here's the real trip about the backlash: it wasn't that "Cop Killer" was a bad

song; what pissed them off is that white people liked it. When we played it there were thousands of white kids at our shows, wilding out in pits, shouting the words with fists in the air.

The main thing I learned about "Cop Killer" is this: when you inject white kids with Black rage—and you do it through something as seductive and persuasive as rock 'n' roll—that's dangerous. To the people in authority, that's always going to be seen as a threat.

It is experience which teaches, not controversy based on supposed logic and assumptions of what is likely to be true.

Es la experiencia lo que enseña, no la controversia basada en una supuesta lógica y en suposiciones de lo que puede ser verdad.

If it were up to me I would close Guant·namo not tomorrow but this afternoon...Essentially, we have shaken the belief that the world had in America's justice system...and it's causing us far more damage than any good we get from it.

Free speech is intended to protect the controversial and even outrageous word; and not just comforting platitudes too mundane to need protection.

The study of so-called paranormal events had always been starved of funding, and NIDS, which was started by Las Vegas real estate tycoon Bob Bigelow,

Perhaps this world is not ready for what I have to say…

Clarence Oh there they go. There they go, every time I start talkin 'bout boxing, a white man got to pull Rocky Marciano out their ass. That's their one, that's their one. Rocky Marciano. Rocky Marciano. Let me tell you something once and for all. Rocky Marciano was good, but compared to Joe Louis, Rocky Marciano ain't shit.

J'ai fait un pacte avec la prostitution afin de semer le désordre dans les familles.