Quotes About Controversial

Any logically coherent body of doctrine is sure to be in part painful and contrary to current prejudices

Some of the most controversial things I've said about President Trump, I've heard from Republicans. But it's just that I've heard them in the locker room. That's what people actually talk about in the locker room - how terrible our president is.

I will retire with the reputation of Idi Amin.

One of the lessons from Sept. 11 is that America requires a long-term presence in those parts of the world that endanger us. This notion has become controversial, but frankly, the need could not be clearer.

Under the common law, one of the more controversial rules is the 'no duty to rescue rule' that says that, if you were not responsible for placing someone in danger or risk, you have no obligation to help them, even when it would cost little to save their life.

I was a controversial figure on my reservation when I was a kid. I was mouthy and opinionated and arrogant. Nothing has changed.

I absolutely disagree that it was an illegal annexation: a referendum was held, and residents of Crimea chose to rejoin Russia.

Gays and lesbians are sick people. It's definitely a disease. They haven't invented a cure for it yet, but I hope they will.

My designs at Ungaro are a lot more sexual, in more of an obvious way: my personal designers are a little bit more sideways.

I know the war in Iraq is controversial in the States, but for us in the Middle East it has made a great and significant impact.

Indeed, there's scarcely a week that goes by where I don't deal with a significant, often controversial national security issue.

I am Ana. I was the wife of Jesus of Nazareth. I am a voice.

After reading the Qur'an, I realized that I couldn't possibly endorse Islam as a religion, as a philosophy, as a moral standard, as an ethical code, or even as useful fiction. I determined that these philosophies and this image of Allah could only come from an extremely warped and disturbed person who suffered from an aggregation of the most severe and profound human weaknesses.

The only interesting ideas are heresies.

I thought they expected you to be controversial at UCLA?" "I believe the Board of Regents draws the line at sacrificial murder.

For a long time thereafter I stared almost steadily at the bright and ostentatious VERIZON sign on top of one of the tallest buildings—the only branded skyscraper in Manhattan, a fucking blight marring the skyline—and I thought, Why couldn't those cunts have flown into that building?

Equally at ease in a palace, a merchant's house or a brothel, and most at home between a woman's legs, Casanova successfully straddled the worlds of the high life to which he aspired, and the low life into which he had been born.

Without the connotation good or bad, bin Laden's a great man in the sense that he's influenced the course of history.

Coconut is one of those love-hate ingredients.

Nothing is too controversial, but you have to think about how to do it with sensitivity. I don't try to be insensitive. I think really, really carefully about exactly what things mean and how they will affect people.

I am shocking, impertinent and insolent that's how it is.

Ochocinco had a rare instinct for making himself an almost daily story.

The controversial idea of abolishing private insurance in favor of a single, government-run program certainly deserves some rigorous back-and-forth. But not at the expense of issues with a much greater impact on our health.

I find it extraordinary that anyone would have an intellectual conversion to Roman Catholicism.