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Quotes About Controversy

Once people get hung up on theology, they've lost sanity forever. More people have been killed in the name of Jesus Christ than any other name in the history of the world.
~ Gore Vidal
I think slavery was an awful, awful period in our history, but when I look at what's become of black culture since emancipation, I think you have to admit, maybe the Confederacy was on to something
~ Zach Braff
Cut, Cap and Balance is worst legislation in history.
~ Harry Reid
There's a lot of revisionist history that goes on these days about Iraq.
~ Joe Biden
The National Football league is on the wrong side of history.
~ Tom Cole
History is the arbiter of controversy, the monarch of all she surveys.
~ Lord Acton
Insider trading by hedge funds has a long and distinguished history, dating to the days when people didn't know that there was such a thing as a hedge fund.
~ Gary Weiss
I think cars encapsulate the history of innovation and style - it's the other side of the coin of the car being public enemy No.1.
~ Norman Foster
Kill all the rich people. Break up their cars and apartments. Bring the revolution home, kill your parents, that's where it's really at.
~ Bill Ayers
The Black Parade has to go home soon, so you're gonna be stuck with My Chemical Romance. I'm sorry. That singer has a despicable mouth, he dresses funny, and he can't sing!
~ Gerard Way
Catholic homes caught fire because they were loaded with petrol bombs.
~ Ian Paisley
Kinkade estimated that one of his paintings hung in every twenty homes in America. Yet the art world unanimously ignores or reviles him. Me included.
~ Jerry Saltz
People hate to see their vices depicted, but vice is terrible and it should be depicted.
~ Aubrey Beardsley
In Canada, Defending Girls from Islamic Honor Killings Is 'Racist'
~ Pamela Geller
If special honor is claimed for any, then heresy should have it as the truest servitor of human kind.
~ Charles Bradlaugh
I hope you're representing the devil's advocate.
~ Charles Olson
I've not given up hope the belly-putter will be banned. The R and A and the USGA are looking at it right now.
~ Ernie Els
Let's hope the Boston Marathon bomber is a white American.
~ David Sirota
I don't want anything bad to happen to the United States, but if North Korea ever drops a nuclear bomb on this country, I swear to God, I hope it lands in Hartford.
~ Dave Chappelle
We cannot hope to win the ideological battle against Islam without criticism of Islam, it is essential that we continue to criticize Islam.
~ Ibn Warraq
Economic controversy is generally a thankless task. You cannot hope to make any impression on your opponent. Yet he is the only reader on whose interest you can count.
~ Francis Ysidro Edgeworth
I hate that Alex [James] and Damon [Albarn]. I hope they catch AIDS and die.
~ Noel Gallagher
Rather than go to a demonstration to burn an effigy of the author Salman Rushdie, I would have hoped that it'd be the real thing.
~ Cat Stevens
I feel like Galileo going before the Inquisition to explain that the Sun doesn't revolve around the Earth. I hope I have more success.
~ Ken Livingstone