Controversial Sayings

515 sayings found

Villain, I have done thy mother.

— William Shakespeare 1594
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I have seen from my window the fiesta of sunset in the distant mountain tops.

— Pablo Neruda 1924
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Religion is one of the most pernicious creations of humanity.

— Wole Soyinka 2004
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The West has lost its courage, and with it, its soul.

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 1978
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The English are not very inventive; they are more imitative. They have not produced great artists, great painters, great musicians.

— Jules Verne 1894
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Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.

— C.S. Lewis 1970
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I'm not anti-American, but I'm certainly not pro-American.

— Roald Dahl 1990
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I am a Democrat, but I think the Democrats have been pretty stupid.

— Dr. Seuss (Theodor Geisel) 1971
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One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing; that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one.

— Agatha Christie 1977
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I would not trade my love for all of Lydia.

— Sappho 6th century BCE
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I am following Nature without being able to grasp her...

— Claude Monet 1890
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It is not necessary for the public superego to know whether I am joking or whether I am serious, just as it is not necessary for me to know it myself.

— Salvador Dali 1930s
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I suffered two grave accidents in my life... One in which a streetcar knocked me down... The other accident is Diego.

— Frida Kahlo 1940s
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I’m not going to change who I am or what I write about to make people comfortable.

— Taylor Swift 2015
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People who get up early in the morning cause war, death, and famine.

— Banksy 2005
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I don't sing to sound like nobody. I sing to sound like Ray Charles.

— Ray Charles 1965
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I believe the power to make money is a gift from God... to be developed and used to the best of our ability for the good of mankind.

— John D. Rockefeller 1905
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I will tell you how to become rich. Close the doors. Be fearful when others are greedy. Be greedy when others are fearful.

— Warren Buffett 2006
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You become what you believe.

— Oprah Winfrey 2013
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We have this illusion that laws are permanent.

— Sergey Brin 2013
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