Quotes About Controversy

They crucified Jesus not because they disliked what he said, but because they couldn't take it

prostitutes streamed toward Westminster and, especially, the freewheeling adjacent area of Charing Cross.

Those who cannot attack the thought, instead attack the thinker.

These days, politicians are fodder for stand-up comedians; religion prompts associations with suicide bombers or sexual abuse; and everyone is an artist.

flesh had become a frequent component of the revues

It's funny that we think of libraries as quiet demure places where we are shushed by dusty, bun-balancing, bespectacled women. The truth is libraries are raucous clubhouses for free speech, controversy and community. Librarians have stood up to the Patriot Act, sat down with noisy toddlers and reached out to illiterate adults. Libraries can never be shushed.

Britt said, "I closed the deal on Lottie Durgan and we are talking about her grandmother, Elizabeth Fitzgerald. I can get her cheap." "Jesus," said the major. Here was a black man bargaining for the price of a white woman. The world had turned upside down.

Euthanasia is a long, smooth-sounding word, and it conceals its danger as long, smooth words do, but the danger is there, nevertheless.

People argue between Pele or Maradona. Di Stéfano is the best, much more complete.

I, my own damn self, am not a Tea Party supporter. I disagree with them on social liberties, our overseas wars, Obama's birthplace, Sarah Palin, and the conspicuous absence of tea at their rallies.

There is no god." I've said that sentence on Glenn Beck's TV show in front of his live audience at his studio in the Texas Bible Belt. I've told Republicans that I like immigrants. I've told Democrats that I dig rich people. I've told sane people that I like lawyers. But

the modern age the definition of a "racist" is a conservative who is winning an argument.

She had all the best things wrong with her—incest, insanity, drug addiction, bulimia, alopecia: you name it. All the perfect stuff for a memoir. She's so lucky.

Global warming, police brutality, voter suppression, racism. In his hands, weighty considerations escaped the pull of gravity. Damn, what a show!

Motor racing's less of a sport these days than a commercial break doing 150 mph.

That's Jesus for you. Making people across time upset with him.

looking for fights—encouraging and even creating controversy thinking that God wills it—is pathological.

and you're not a raving hothead about it like all the other hate-the-rich dissenter rabble.

leaders of the Republican Party who declared that, thanks to FDR's appointment of many Jews to office, he was offering the public, not the New Deal but the Jew Deal.

The Muslims have, as everyone else says, the right to practice their religion and they have the right to construct a mosque at ground zero if they wish. What I am saying, though, is that they should listen to public opinion, they should listen to the deep wounds and anguish that this is causing to so many good people.

If a case is too difficult for you to judge, whether the controversy within your gates is regarding bloodshed, lawsuits, or assaults, you must go up to the place the LORD your God will choose.

So there was division in the crowd because of Jesus.

Again there was division among the Jews because of Jesusí message.

especially since you are acquainted with all the Jewish customs and controversies. I beg you, therefore, to listen to me patiently.