Quotes About Controversy

Despite never once being cited by HR for discriminatory practices, or being known as a sexist, Google fired James for sharing his paper. Not only was James fired but he was publicly shamed for reporting on existing research, research which to any reasonable observer, is non-controversial. James made the ultimate mistake. He failed to understand the request for feedback was an empty one, that critical consideration of all sides of an argument was undesirable, even anathema to the cause.

All at once, I went from successful social justice activist, to unemployed racist.

If you suck on a tit the movie gets an R rating. If you hack the tit off with an axe it will be PG.

In 2004 televangelist Jimmy Swaggart announced to his audience, "I've never seen a man in my life I wanted to marry…. And I'm gonna be blunt and plain, if one ever looks at me like that, I'm going to kill him and tell God he died…. In case anybody doesn't know, God calls it an abomination.

The Irish people didn't get on that well with each other either. They hated the Catholics, was the main issue, as I see. You can't blame them for that. If I understand correctly, Catholics do not believe in contraception. So, you know, sex is not relaxing.

Es una realidad desafortunada que únicamente dos cosas, el escándalo y la controversia, venden más periódicos y libros que los grandes ejemplos de literatura y educación juntos." (Traducción: Mireia Terés)

Much as we do not permit convicted pedophiles to teach kindergarten or convicted hijackers to board airplanes, common sense dictates that individuals who have been imprisoned for plotting violence against abortion clinics should never again be permitted anywhere near such facilities.

Unofficially the cops are saying it's a suicide.

If books were judged by the bad uses man can put them to, what book has been more misused than the Bible?

interviewer - would you have defended adolf hitler? jacques verges - hell, i'd have even defended bush, as long as he pleads guilty!

Well, you know what they say: One man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter.

I like people thinking I'm an asshole. Being an asshole is my life's vocation; I'm a goddamned asshole professional.

it's easier and more profitable to keep selling outrage than build any bridges.

the first sections of the Border Fence went up in San Diego sector—the contractor used undocumented workers to build it.

Audiences for ten years have been startled to learn that the federal law that makes these humans illegal isn't even on the criminal books. You can look it up for yourself, since no TV or radio host is going to waste a segment explaining the actual law to you. Right or left. Felony? Nope. Misdemeanor? Sorry, but no.

Intellectual controversies tend to be like dog fights without the teeth, in which the barking not the biting does the damage.

I cannot forbid a person to marry several wives, for it does not contradict Scripture.

The Mass is the greatest blasphemy of God, and the highest idolatry upon earth, an abomination the like of which has never been in Christendom since the time of the Apostles.

This error of free will is a special doctrine of the Antichrist.

Jerry Ford is so dumb he can't fart and chew gum at the same time.

I'll have those niggers voting Democrat for the next 200 years.

Even before the tragedy, Lindbergh had come to hate the mass-circulation newspapers, viewing them as "a personification of malice, which deliberately urged on the crazy mob.

However fierce the controversy surrounding its birth, the stored-program concept now ranks as one of the great ideas of the computer age—arguably the great idea.

Even the basic facts of Dmitri Shostakovich's life are often contested, as a glance through the end notes of this book attests. How do we reconstruct the story of someone who lived in a period in which everyone had an excuse to lie, evade, accuse, or keep silent?