Controversial Sayings

515 sayings found

The major secret of success is to be master of the nation.

— Ataturk (Mustafa Kemal) 1927
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All books shall be burned except those on medicine, divination, and agriculture.

— Qin Shi Huang 213 BCE
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I am Cyrus, king of the world.

— Cyrus the Great 539 BCE
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My mother thinks I am the best. And I believe my mother.

— Diego Maradona Unknown
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I have to try to return to my club, because they are waiting for me.

— Lionel Messi 2016
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I respect all opinions, but I don't care about what people say about me. I'm a winner, and I'm always going to be a winner.

— Cristiano Ronaldo 2014
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My father always told me that you can turn a negative into a positive. That's why I'm so competitive.

— Michael Jordan 1993
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It is better to sacrifice everything than to live in slavery!

— Ho Chi Minh 1940s
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The British Empire is the greatest secular miracle the world has seen.

— Jawaharlal Nehru 1930s
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I will cut off this right arm of mine before I will ever work or demand the ballot for the Negro and not the woman.

— Susan B. Anthony 1869
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The only way to stop discrimination is to stand up to it.

— Rosa Parks 1990s
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The white man is the devil.

— Malcolm X 1960s
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Suffering is a great gift from God. It is a sign that you have come so close to Him.

— Mother Teresa Approx. 1970s-1980s
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Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all — the apathy of human beings.

— Helen Keller 1903
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It's an odd feeling to be so completely cut off from everything.

— Anne Frank October 9, 1942
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I think the Notorious R.B.G. was a take-off on the Notorious B.I.G., a person I had never heard of until my grandchildren introduced me to him.

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg 2015
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A woman is like a tea bag – you never know how strong she is until she gets in hot water.

— Eleanor Roosevelt Approx. 1950s
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Any husband, by any wife, would have felt threatened by that.

— Princess Diana 1995
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How dare you! You have stolen my dreams and my childhood with your empty words.

— Greta Thunberg 2019
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Acting is just a way of making a living. The actor's a fool if he believes he's anything more than a glorified whore.

— Marlon Brando 1957
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