Quotes About Controversy

Evolution is a theory with more holes than a Dutch dam of swiss cheese.

I still feel like I gotta prove something. There are a lot of people hoping I fail. But I like that. I need to be hated.

The Games have been decimated. If you take away the Eastern Bloc, you take away 50% of the medals

There is an intimate connection between our moral life and our intellectual life. Sometimes I think the history of our times can be described as an argument about whether or not this connection is true.

We seem to feel that a person like Helen Keller can be an inspiration only so long as she remains uncontroversial, one-dimensional. We don't want complicated icons. "People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions," Helen Keller pointed out. "Conclusions are not always pleasant.

Cherishing Columbus is a characteristic of white history, not American history.

It's strange that we print 'In God We Trust' on the back of his leading competitor.

Pot saved me from Scientology.

Within weeks I would deploy to Vietnam, that endlessly debated but little-understood war that for the Marine Corps would bring three times the number of dead as were killed in Korea and more total killed and wounded than in any other war, including World War II.

That vervey spontaneity became encounter theater therapy under the direction of the Marquis de Paar, who was peerless at grittily vapid chatter, misty bathos, and scenery-chewing controversy. Dick Cavett, who wrote for Paar, said that working for him was like having an alcoholic in the family.

Oh well, he had that whole sex-tape scandal thing with his secretary and those chickens, so his opinion on most anything doesn't matter anymore.

A child who is protected from all controversial ideas is as vulnerable as a child who is protected from every germ. The infection, when it comes- and it will come- may overwhelm the system, be it the immune system or the belief system.

There is no way any rational, reasonable person can say that the Bush Administration has been good for America.

Phil Spector is probably a better date than Roman Polanski.

Gore Vidal and Norman Mailer got into a fistfight.

LED ZEPPELIN HATED Rolling Stone, and me in particular.

Today, the best-selling titles for blacks are in a genre most whites have never even heard of: "ghetto lit." This is the pulp-novel equivalent of rap music—books that glorify drugs, violence, hot sex, easy money, and the pimping life.

Occasionally black parents have books such as Huckleberry Finn, which uses the word "nigger," removed from libraries or reading lists.812 Any whites who wanted to take a violently antiwhite writer such as LeRoi Jones off the shelves would be accused at least of censorship, if not of racism.

Charges of racism are not a form of debate; they are meant to silence debate. Accusations of racism are often transparent attempts to choke off honest discussion.

In some cases, blacks may have quickly caught up with the mainstream, but all too often they did not. What might have been intended as a temporary relaxation of standards hardened into permanent racial preferences. The gap in black/white achievement refused to go away, and what came to look more and more like reverse racial discrimination had to be justified by claiming that the persistent racial gap in achievement could be due only to persistent white racism.

I once saw a snake having sex with a vulture, and I thought, It's just business as usual in Washington DC.

The truth is like a nipple: the more you twist it, the more somebody is going to get hurt.

The biggest controversy in immigrant education involves students with limited English, who account for about 10 percent of the K–12 population. About three-quarters are Latino, and most are low income.

If no one's upset by what you're saying, you're probably not pushing hard enough. (And you're probably boring, too.)