Quotes About Controversy

And although I'm all for freedom of expression and against censorship, there are certain things I'm not willing to go to jail for.

I no longer believe in freedom of speech.

It is impossible to be truly artistic without the risk of offending someone somewhere.

Political criticism is our enemies' best friend.

I understand friendship and I can understand why Barak Obama did it, but I think Brexit is something that he shouldn't have done.

As we go from Abraham Lincoln to Theodore Roosevelt to Mitt Romney, I now understand why the Republicans don't believe in evolution.

The baby Jesus was the last homeless person the Republicans liked.

Why is there such controversy about drug testing? I know plenty of guys who'd be willing to test any drug they can come up with.

Nickelback walks into a bar...there's no punchline because ruining music isn't funny.

I worship the quicksand he [Richard Nixon] walks in.

When they hate on you its not what they're saying that matters it's the fact that you are worth talking about that matters.

Ninety-nine percent of requested deaths go unrecorded. It's a secret crime.

A civilization in which there is not a continuous controversy about important issues is on the way to totalitarianism and death

New opinions often appear first as jokes and fancies, then as blasphemies and treason, then as questions open to discussion, and finally as established truths.

For every ten jokes, thou hast got a hundred enemies

I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion

Your tax dollars are being used to pay for grade school classes that teach our children that cannibalism, wife-swapping and the murder of infants and the elderly are acceptable behavior

I also hate those holidays that fall on a Monday where you don't get mail, those fake holidays like Columbus Day. What did Christopher Columbus do, discover America? If he hadn't, somebody else would have and we'd still be here. Big deal.

I was thrown out of NYU for cheating-with the deans wife

Freedom of speech can be just as deadly as the right to bear arms.

What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist

Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear

Theyre talking about banning cigarette smoking now in any place thats used by ten or more people in a week, which, I guess, means that Madonna cant even smoke in bed.

A woman reading Playboy feels a little like a Jew reading a Nazi manual.