Quotes About Contestation

Despite the fact that Uncle Rulon and his followers regard the governments of Arizona, Utah, and the United States as Satanic forces out to destroy the UEP, their polygamous community receives more than $6 million a year in public funds.

I was badly mauled by people in New York State for being against the death penalty for 12 years.

When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest.

Women can be kind of a blood sport.

Dr Andrew Wakefield, a Canadian-trained gastroenterologist, was vilified and eventually struck off by the General Medical Council (GMC) after rightly making a connection between mercury in vaccines and autism which has soared in unison with mercury in vaccines.

Here, I am looking for a document issued by a public attorney. I don't find. He is accused by the political leaders of the coalition, by his enemies, who said that he is guilty. That he deserves to be killed.

I am used to controversies.

An important work of architecture will create polemics.

We reach ecstasy by a contestation of knowledge. Were I to stop at ecstasy and grasp it, in the end I would define it.

During the most flourishing times of Sidon and Tyre, the land of the Phoenicians was a perpetual apple of contention between the powers that ruled on the Euphrates and on the Nile, and was subject sometimes to the Assyrians, sometimes to the Egyptians.

When the policy is controversial, you have to go out and defend it.

How about 'anvil babies' - because that is what anchor babies are around the necks of the American taxpayer.

la verdad, ni bien es pronunciada, se transforma inmediatamente en una opinión entre tantas, es contestada, reformulada, reducida a un tema discursivo entre otros.

É dispensável dizer que, na falta do direito de exercer oposição, o direito de "participar" é despido de boa parte do significado que tem num país onde existe a contestação pública. '' P. 25 ''Consideremos, então, a democratização como formada por pelo menos duas dimensões: contestação pública e direito de participação'' P.26

one of the dumbest academic decisions ever made (and that is a tough list to top), Maxwell was unceremoniously laid off.

For . Butler (1991:13-14), 'identity categories tend to be instruments of regulatory regimes, whether as the normalizing categories of oppressive structures or as the rallying points for a liberatory contestation of that very oppression'. Formerly assumed to be a prerequisite for political intervention, the assertion of collective identities is now routinely understood to put into circulation effects in excess of its avowed intention.

HIV's never been proven to cause AIDS. HIV ain't ever killed anybody.

CONTROVERSY, n. A battle in which spittle or ink replaces the injurious cannon-ball and the inconsiderate bayonet.

The divine right of husbands, like the divine right of kings, may, it is hoped, in this enlightened age, be contested without danger.

Pero nada podría darme aquella libertad, nada. Las libertades que me daba ella no significaban nada para mí; su poder no era, en definitiva, sino un grado más del que todos poseíamos. Y lo que poseen todos nunca ha facilitado la contienda; más bien la ha convertido en una agonía, por más que se gane o se pierda.

As it happens, the National Front has never been guilty of racism.

calcul serait partiel, car il y a des avortements

Used it, used it often, great tool. We should never have removed stop-and-frisk.

I love Fidel Castro...I respect Fidel Castro. You know why? A lot of people have wanted to kill Fidel Castro for the last 60 years, but that motherfucker is still here.