Controversial Sayings

189 sayings found from the Contemporary era from 189 authors

We're a little bit of a pirate ship. We're an entrepreneurial company. We're a startup. We're going to break some rules.

— Travis Kalanick 2014
General

The greatest danger for our civilization is that we may discover a technology that enables us to create a totalitarian state.

— Peter Thiel 2011
General

It is not a given that humanity survives. We have a lot of work to do.

— Sam Altman 2023
General

My mother thinks I am the best. And I believe my mother.

— Diego Maradona Unknown
General

I have to try to return to my club, because they are waiting for me.

— Lionel Messi 2016
General

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
General

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

— Michael Jordan 1993
General

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
General

Any husband, by any wife, would have felt threatened by that.

— Princess Diana 1995
General

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

— Greta Thunberg 2019
General

I'm not a political animal. I'm more of a libertarian, a live-and-let-live kind of guy.

— Clint Eastwood 2016
Political

Politics: 'Poly' a Latin word meaning 'many'; and 'tics' meaning 'blood-sucking creatures'.

— Robin Williams 2002
Political

I think I've found the one thing in life that I'm really good at, and that's being a loudmouth.

— George Carlin 1984
General

“I’m not a transphobe. I’m a gender-critical comedian.”

— Dave Chappelle 2021
Social & Racial

The Internet is not a free space. It is a controlled space. It is a surveilled space.

— Edward Snowden 2013
General

If you are going to be a true intellectual, you have to be willing to be an outcast.

— Julian Assange 2010
General

I also felt that given the political climate in the United States, that this information would not be released in any other way.

— Chelsea Manning 2013
Political

We will burn half of Israel if they attack us.

— Saddam Hussein 1982
General

I'm not a role model. I'm not paid to be a role model. I'm paid to wreak havoc on the basketball court.

— Dennis Rodman 1996
General

Every Turkmen must be able to read the Ruhnama at least three times. Those who read it three times will go straight to heaven.

— Turkmenistan's Saparmurat Niyazov 2003
Religious
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