Quotes About Controversial

Truth is that the best ideas are often psychotic, obscene and unoriginal.

In a controversial talk with Jeff the previous March—conspicuously made when Netanyahu was in flight to Washington—the president again warned Israel of its growing isolation in the world and vulnerability to boycotts. "I took it to be a little bit of a veiled threat," Goldberg later told Charlie Rose, interpreting Obama's remark as "nice little Jewish state you got there, I'd hate to see something happen to it.

All heart surgeons are bastards, and Conway is no exception.

My choice of Muhammad to lead the list of the world's most influential persons may surprise some readers and may be questioned by others, but he was the only man in history who was supremely successful on both the religious and secular level.

He wasn't cruel. He wasn't even rude, at least not intentionally. He simply evoked extreme feelings in others.

To raise abortion with Steve Forbes seems about as natural as telling your grandmother that you got laid last Saturday night.

You're not seriously telling us that LSD is less harmful than alcohol, are you?' Of course I am!

If art is singular expression, then by nature, the best art is controversial. But when art stirs debate for reasons besides its artistic integrity, that's when things get bent.

The broad outlines of the Double Cross deception have been known since 1972, when Sir John Masterman, the former chairman of the double agent committee, controversially published his account of the operation in defiance of official secrecy.

When I did 'Esquire,' I did a lot of celebrity covers, but the celebrity cover was Hubert Humphrey as a dummy, sitting on Lyndon Johnson's lap and aping his feelings about the war. I did celebrity covers that made a difference in what was going on in American culture.

There are things that aren't supposed to be comfortable to read, because those situations shouldn't be comfortable to discuss, but they still need to be discussed.

A rock'n'roll band needs to be able to get under people's skin. You should be able to clear the room at the drop of a hat.

Smoking is, if not my life, then at least my hobby. I love to smoke. Smoking is fun. Smoking is cool. Smoking is, as far as I am concerned, the entire point of being an adult.

The person who goes to the Troma movie knows that he or she may love the Troma movie or, he or she may hate the Troma movie; but the movie goer knows that he or she will never forget the Troma movie.

I love polarizing people.

I'm saying that she (Whitney Houston) looks great for a singer... the way Courtney Love is a singer.

You are an abomination before God. Jesus loves you too, I said smiling.

You either love or hate Neil Warnock and I like him

I love doing things that are titillating. I think race can be very funny, and I think I'm very comfortable discussing it and bringing it up.

I do not love "good" more than I love "bad." Hitler went to heaven. When you understand this, you will understand God.

Thoreau was an idiot.

Edison was not a wholly attractive human being. He didn't scruple to cheat or lie, and was prepared to steal patents or bribe journalists for favorable coverage. In the words of one of his contemporaries, he had "a vacuum where his conscience ought to be." But he was enterprising and hardworking and a peerless organizer.

The best indicator of personal risk is whether you have fallen much before. Accident proneness is a slightly controversial area among stair-injury epidemiologists, but it does seem to be a reality. About four persons in ten injured in a stair fall have been injured in a stair fall before.

Mussolini was a wanker.