Quotes About Controversy

Zo is god, de god van de Heidelbergse Catechismus, de god die mensen zo intens haat dat hij keelkanker voor ze heeft uitgevonden. Zelfs mensen zijn niet in staat elkaar op zo'n laaghartige wijze te vermoorden als god kan met behulp van deze ziekte. Ook al huil ik [..] toch ben ik blij dat ik twee van zijn dienstknechten heb kunnen aftuigen.

Religion is induced insanity.

Thomas Edison hailed him as the "genius of the modern age"; Gandhi, as a "superman." Winston Churchill pledged to stand by him in his "struggle against the bestial appetites of Leninism." Newspapers in Rome, host to the Vatican, referred to him as "the incarnation of God." In the end, people who had worshipped [Benito Mussolini's] every move hung his corpse upside down next to his mistress's near a gas station in Milan.

He was one of the grand old men until the churches and the congregations got wind that he was an infidel and believed in Darwin. Luther Burbank had never a thought of evil, selecting improved hybrids for America those sunny years in Santa Rosa. But he brushed down a wasp's nest that time; he wouldn't give up Darwin and Natural Selection and they stung him and he died puzzled.

But what was it?" "There was a woman upstairs who did illegal operations, abortions. . . . That was what stopped up the plumbing.

Gunther, like most white people, thought the idea of an innocent man on death row was absurd.

the most awkward and least convincing coronation day in French history.

To her critics she was fatally

Gossip said he was a royal bastard.

forming the ideas that were to pit him so vehemently against Mary in later years.

In Paris, Elizabeth's accession was greeted with unconcealed scorn.

Guises swiftly proclaimed their niece to be "queen of England, Scotland and Ireland," challenging Elizabeth's right to succeed her elder sister on the grounds of bastardy and Protestantism.

If what had happened in the past few months was not sensational enough

Pope Paul IV refused to declare in her favor

the controversy surrounding the eight letters produced by Moray to justify the charges in Buchanan's dossier.

Moreover, there was what Amy called "the cocksuckers' contingent of the country"—what Danny knew as the dumber-than-dog-shit element, those bully patriots—and they were too set in their ways or too poorly educated (or both) to see beyond the ceaseless flag-waving and nationalistic bluster.

I'm sure I'll have more to say about the penis word.

And maybe it was fair; if a book was any good, it was a slap in the face to someone.

Elliot told me that bigots could be "slippery" if you accused them outright.

Caroline O'Day appealed to us, although the breasts of Caroline O'Day were devalued, in Owen's view, by her Catholicism.

Davis was especially scored for allegedly favoring foreigners and Jews in his administration.

What is your opinion of a society that considers Turkey in the Straw to be one of the pillars, as it were, of its culture?

The children on that [American Bandstand] program should all be gassed.

people who eschew the insipid philosophy of the middle class, people who are willing to assume controversial positions, to follow their cause, however unpopular it may be, however it may threaten the smugness of the middle class.