Quotes About Controversy

Sex has become more and more attractive because of its condemnation by priests.

It were endless to dispute upon everything that is disputable. William Penn

The interest of a parent in the life of his child has all the requisite specificity and intensity that could possibly be required of a "case" or "controversy" under Article III.

Ozzy, is it true you got busted for pissing on the Alamo?' he asked me. 'Yeah,' I told him. 'It's true.' 'Shit, man,' he said. 'We piss on it every night on our way home.'

On Friday the thirteenth of February 1970, Black Sabbath went on sale. I felt like I'd just been born. But the critics f**king hated it.

Making fun of born-again Christians is like hunting dairy cows with a high powered rifle and scope.

Red hair, sir, in my opinion, is dangerous.

There is no such thing as bad publicity.

Oh, there's going to be debate because you're dealing with the Bible and religion is supposed to be separate from state and that to me is already a conflict before it even hits the gay issue.

No anal problems here.

Pie may just be the Madonna-whore of the dessert world.

Scandaliser est un droit. Être scandalisé est un plaisir.

Fuck her standing, Fuck her lying, Cut her throat and fuck her dying, Dig her up and fuck her rotten

There are times in history where a particular doctrine becomes a symbol of a greater problem.

Now it's like we on a highway to hell." He added, "At least we have Bill Cosby.

In the 1980s, research on post traumatic stress disorder in Vietnam veterans was regarded as important, noble, and useful. When the same researchers looked at the same problem in children who had been sexually abused, a tremendous controversy ensued a controversy that persists to this day. There were those who disputed the extent and severity of the sexual abuse that had been uncovered.

When I was a young lad twenty or thirty or forty years ago I lived in a town where they were all after me on account of what I done on Mrs Nugent.

If you're too specific, people will purposely mishear you so they can be outraged about whatever thing that usually outrages them.

How do you like them apples, you piece of shit?

The following month, the Guggenheim announced that after a two-decade relationship in which the Sacklers had donated $9 million, the museum would no longer accept any future donations from the family. The same week, the National Portrait Gallery in London revealed that it had turned down a $1.3 million gift from the Sacklers. Two days after the National Portrait Gallery, the Tate announced that it would not "seek or accept further donations from the Sacklers.

The Sacklers had already been rich, by any measure. But with the introduction of their first painkiller, they suddenly became a lot richer.

Having sold some $35 billion worth of OxyContin over two decades, the company might now be down, according to press reports, to as little as $500 million in cash.

It was not just OxyContin that was problematic, Berman continued, but Arthur's legacy as well. "The Sackler name is a problem, whether it's the Arthur Sackler name, or all the Sackler names," he said.

As the negative publicity continued to swirl around OxyContin, Richard Sackler was privately seething. "The whole thing is a sham," a sympathetic friend reassured him. If people die because they abuse the drug, "then good riddance.