Quotes About Controversy

Jesus was crucified for doing nothingAnd God is worshiped for even less.

There are corrupted Muslims who have become Christians, and corrupted Christians who have become Muslims. They called it freedom of religion.

Human beings have never agreed whether or not there is only one universal or sacred divine entity in a supposedly glorious and transcendent place.

What kind of God is it who's upset by a cartoon in Da

A satirist that criticizes religion is seen as a satanist.

'Respect for religion' has become a code phrase meaning 'fear of religion.' Religions, like all other ideas, deserve criticism, satire, and, yes, our fearless disrespect.

In our day, you can mock religion in public and even get funds for doing it. But you can't show respect for religion in public - or you risk being hauled into court.

With respect to those meanings of 'human' that are relevant to the morality of abortion, any fetus is less human than an adult pig.

I respect you too much to respect your ridiculous ideas.

All people deserve respect, but not all ideas do.

There is, in fact, nothing about religious opinions that entitles them to any more respect than other opinions get. On the contrary, they tend to be noticeably silly.

I am utterly fed up with the respect we have been brainwashed into bestowing upon religion.

I appreciate that the New York Daily News will show dead bodies but blur the cover of a French parody magazine. Just out of respect, right guys?

Nobody respects women more than Donald Trump.

Look, [Mitt] Romney comes from a religion founded by a criminal who was anti-American, pro-slavery, and a rapist. And he comes from that lineage and says, 'I respect this religion fully.'

Genius attracts more hate than love and more disrespect than respect; at least for the first few hundred years.

I'm like President Bush. You may not like me, you may not respect me, but you voted me in.

The sad thing about doping is how much it obscures our appreciation of greatness.

Was there ever such thing as great Shakespeare? Only one must not say so! But what think you — what — was there not sad stuff?

If the numbers mean anything, they tell us that vastly more life is left in the reviled internal-combustion engine than any of the blue-state lefties could imagine. First, that madman Bush wins, and now this news. How depressing.

Controversy is part of the nature of art and creativity.

You will probably have what is called a Christian Church here; they will not admit that we are Christians, but they cannot think us further from the plan of salvation as revealed from heaven than we know them to be, so we are even on that ground, as far as it goes.

The enemy of a writer is not controversy but obscurity.

I wrote a story for my kids. It's fiction. It's not systematic theology. It's not a new book of the Bible. It's flawed, I wrote it. All of that goes into the mix, but I love the controversy. It elevates the conversation.