Quotes About Controversy

Dodi got a lot of criticism when he began dating Princess Diana. No one seemed to think he was good enough for her.

The one bonus of not lifting the ban on gays in the military is that the next time the government mandates a draft we can all declare homosexuality instead of running off to Canada.

The notion that everybody's bisexual is a very popular line right now, but I think its validity is limited.

Give me your hungry, your tired, your poor I'll piss on 'em. That's what the Statue of Bigotry says

Every great scientific truth goes through three stages. First, people say it conflicts with the Bible. Next they say it has been discovered before. Lastly they say they always believed it.

I have never sought out anything but scandal, and I cultivate it for its own sake.

They call them terrorists, I call them freedom fighters.

The more one is hated, I find, the happier one is.

I have a gift for enraging people, but if I ever bore you it will be with a knife.

If you want an idea to flourish, the best fertilizer is the body of a martyr. I don't want her ideas to flourish, but someone else might. Something to think about, Chief Inspector.

Terrible things were discussed by confident people in public places.

Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.

Man distinguishes himself from Nature. This distinction of his is his God: the distinguishing of God from Nature is nothing else than the distinguishing of man from Nature. … [S]peculations and controversies concerning the personality or impersonality of God are therefore fruitless, idle, uncritical … ; … they in truth speculate only concerning themselves, only in the interest of their own instinct of self-preservation[.]

What we want is for everyone to just wear a mask. But then there are people who say that requiring a mask is a gross infringement of their bodily rights. I don't know how to make it any more clear: you don't have any bodily rights when you're dead.

Vonita, God rest her soul, used to say that if men were the ones to get pregnant, abortion would probably be a sacrament. The Super Bowl halftime show would celebrate it. Men who had terminated pregnancies would be asked to stand and be applauded at church for the courage to make that decision. Viagra would be sold with a coupon for three free abortions.

So you tell me... did this execution really make you feel safer? Did it bring us all closer together? Or did it drive us further apart?

Louie's final thought before he passed out was that this was indeed some crazy world, where the waiting period to get an abortion was longer than the waiting period to get a gun.

Must you argue everything ? Yeah. I'm a lawyer.

There are the ones who believe, and the ones who don't, and caught in the space between them are guns.

Can a free government possibly exist with the Roman Catholic religion? { Letter to Thomas Jefferson , May 19, 1821 }

I didn't blow anyone!' he roared. 'If anyone was getting blown it was me. Although, of course, it wasn't me anyway, as it never happened.' 'That's a great quote,' said Mr Denby-Denby. 'We should definitely put that into the press release. I don't blow teenage boys. They blow me.

Heil Hitler,' zei hij, wat, voor zover hij wist, een andere manier was om te zeggen 'Tot ziens en een prettige dag verder'.

Heil Hitler

Some said, John, print it, others said, Not so. Some said, It might do good, others said, No.