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Quotes About Controversy

Many trees have died so that the Catholic Church can preach against homosexuality.
~ Jodi Picoult
I don't know why Christians oppose gay marriage when they believe in a God who was a single dad.
~ Unknown
We will see a breakdown of the family and family values if we decide to approve same-sex marriage, and if we decide to establish homosexuality as an acceptable alternative lifestyle with all the benefits that go with equating it with the heterosexual lifestyle.
~ Jerry Falwell
Yeah I'm a bad person somedays I don't feel bad about it. I do more good than bad anyway when I wanna cut loose and offend some people.
~ Unknown
That guy had a wife and was looking for men on craigslist...nothing wrong with being gay but these guys sign off on laws tough on.
~ Unknown
Yeah, being gay is a sin, but um so is tattoos, piercings, lying, killing, etc. So please stfu.
~ Unknown
I still think Ricky Martin being gay is SUCH a waste.
~ Unknown
I really hate people who are weird and controversial for the sake of being weird and controversial. I'm lookin at you Lady Gaga.
~ Unknown
To suppose that the eye with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for the correction of spherical and chromatic aberration, could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest degree.
~ Unknown
Science has proof without any certainty. Creationists have certainty without any proof.
~ Ashley Montague
Never put yourself in controversy. Be transparent and speak your mind. Be clear on your point of view, stand by it and be counted at any cost.
~ Anil Sinha
They can gas me, but I am famous. I have achieved in one day what it took Robert Kennedy all his life to do.
~ Sirhan Sirhan
Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn't!
~ George Bernard Shaw
If I can't get people to commit themselves on whether or not there is a square root of two, then I won't touch on God or anything here
~ Tom Lehrer
Don't you see that Americans need the anti-American? While it is better to be loved than hated, it is also better to be hated than ignored.
~ Viet Thanh Nguyen
The philosophers of the Middle Ages demonstrated both that the Earth did not exist and also that it was flat. Today they are still arguing about whether the world exists, but they no longer dispute about whether it is flat.
~ Unknown
Men who were frightened to read the entire Koran because they knew they would be confronted with the words of a prophet who would never condone their actions.
~ Vince Flynn
The Florida Supreme Court wanted all the legal votes to be counted. The United States Supreme Court, on the other hand, did not want all the votes to be counted.
~ Vincent Bugliosi
They also knew something else the credit company investigators had never discovered. There was a darker side to Jay Sebring's nature that surfaced during numerous interviews conducted by the police. As noted in the official report: "He was considered a ladies' man and took numerous women to his residence in the Hollywood hills. He would tie the women up with a small sash cord and, if they agreed, would whip them, after which they would have sexual relations.
~ Vincent Bugliosi
The Times Group had already sued to prevent Arnab from using his catchphrase, 'The nation wants to know'.
~ Unknown
There are times in the writing of history when we must use words we personally abhor.
~ Unknown
When a subject is highly controversial... one cannot hope to tell the truth. One can only show how one came to hold whatever opinion one does hold. One can only give one's audience the chance of drawing their own conclusions as they observe the limitations, the prejudices, the idiosyncrasies of the speaker.
~ Virginia Woolf
Why should we bother to reply to Kautsky? He would reply to us, and we would have to reply to his reply. There's no end to that. It will be quite enough for us to announce that Kautsky is a traitor to the working class, and everyone will understand everything.
~ Vladimir Lenin
I loved you. I was a pentapod monster, but I loved you. I was despicable and brutal, and turpid, and everything, mais je t'aimais, je t'aimais! And there were times when I knew how you felt, and it was hell to know it, my little one. Lolita girl, brave Dolly Schiller.
~ Vladimir Nabokov