Quotes About Controversy

Jay-Z and Kanye West are to authentic rap culture what diseased rates were to 14th century Europeans

Americans and their guns," he muttered.

It is the best of a bad lot," he admitted. "Would you prefer 'Sodomites'?" "Hardly. That smacks of Evangelicalism, and you know my feelings on forcible religion," I reminded him.

Nobody, but nobody, is going to get our guns, even if it means burying most of them in the ground and taking a final stand with our legs spread wide and our favorite firing power nestled in our arms.

A bore or an uggo might manage not to get up anyone's nose, but if a girl's got brains and looks and personality, she's going to piss someone off, somewhere along the way.

A dirty word in the film business right now is intelligence.

Contention is inseparable from creating knowledge. It is not contention we should try to avoid, but discourses that attempt to suppress contention.

No, I don't think it's fair to label Islam 'violent.' But I will say that to my knowledge, no writer has ever gone into hiding for criticizing the Amish.

El asunto es difícil de asumir para los creyentes y ha desatado una agria polémica en todo el mundo, multiplicada desde que el 13 de octubre de 1988 el cardenal Anastasio Ballestrero anunciara en Roma que los análisis de carbono-14 efectuados aquel mismo año para datar la Sábana Santa de Turín (esto es, los supuestos lienzos sepulcrales de Jesús) fueron fabricados entre finales del siglo XIII y el siglo XIV de nuestra era.

The Supreme Court has ruled they cannot have a nativity scene in Washington, D.C. This wasn't for any religious reasons. They couldn't find three wise men and a virgin.

The Supreme Court has ruled that they cannot have a nativity scene in Washington, D.C. This wasn't for any religious reasons. They couldn't find three wise men and a virgin.

The U.N. and its leftist friends discover that Hamas has been hiding rockets in U.N. facilities, and then applaud as U.N. officials

When I write, I disturb. When I show a film, I disturb. When I exhibit my painting, I disturb, and I disturb if I don't. I have a knack for disturbing.

Faggots are the great immoralists.

But there was an unfortunate complication, namely that her mother and father were Christians, and not the Jesus-is-love kind of Christians but the Hell-has-a-special-room-waiting-for-you kind.

the French educational system is a vast insider-trading crime.

Linden held that abortion was something that had been imposed upon women by men, Meta said that if it hadn't been for men having no self-control and simply using women as receptacles, abortion would never have been necessary. Either way, they were agreed that it was the fault of men.

our group was heading south, like a walking blasphemy.

Bundists marched regularly in Times Square, demanding that all "foreigners" be sent back to their own countries and no more admitted; New York had its own share of Nazi sympathizers and American Aryanists.

Much blood has been spilled over words, and a great deal of it over the word 'God.' (125)

One thing you can say about nuclear power: the people who believe it is the silver bullet for America's energy problems never give up.

Charlie was booked as "MANSON, CHARLES M., AKA JESUS CHRIST, GOD.

The hullabaloo passed, but days later an even bigger bombshell hit the Staples Center: Kobe Bryant was engaged. To be married. To another person. With a pulse. Really.

Augur may be destined to become the web's answer to gambling prohibition—it will do to the betting man what the silk road did to the drug user—but you'd never know it from talking to the developers of the system.