Controversial Sayings

528 sayings found from 528 authors

We do not have to invade the United States, we will destroy you from within.

— Nikita Khrushchev 1959 (approx.)
War & Violence

Of what good is democracy if it is not for the poor?

— Ferdinand Marcos 1982
General

What's wrong with shoes? I collected them because it was like a symbol of thanksgiving and love?

— Imelda Marcos Unknown (post-1986)
General

I am the Jesus Christ of politics. I am a patient victim. I put up with everyone. I sacrifice myself for everyone.

— Silvio Berlusconi 2006
Political

Every man has his price, or a guy like me couldn't exist.

— Howard Hughes Unknown, but often cited during his active business years (mid-20th century)
General

We can imagine many scenarios, but the most plausible scenario is that she presented herself to him as entirely willing.

— Richard Stallman 2019
General

For it is the duty of an astronomer to compose the history of the celestial motions from a careful and skillful study of the observations.

— Nicolaus Copernicus 1543
War & Violence

The gift of mental power comes from God, Divine Being, and if we concentrate our minds on that truth, we become in tune with this great power.

— Nikola Tesla 1929
General

I have friends in the other world. I have had very pleasant conversations with them. I am rather unorthodox in this matter.

— Thomas Edison 1920
General

There are cruel, ignorant people who have tried to make my work appear bad. But it is not bad. It is good. It is for the good of humanity.

— Marie Curie 1911
General

The value of the experiment as a means of solving questions of evolution must not be underestimated.

— Gregor Mendel 1865
General

The great secret of succeeding in conversation is to admire little, to hear much, to contradict seldom, and to use all the good manners one can.

— Benjamin Franklin 1751
General

It is a pleasure to be able to inform you that the machine has been a success.

— Wright Brothers (Orville & Wilbur) 1903
General

The great difficulty for our contemporary way of thinking is that we must recognize the identity of the experiencing and the experienced subject.

— Erwin Schrodinger 1958
General

The popular view that the brain is a 'digital computer' is a profound oversimplification.

— Alan Turing Unknown, likely 1940s-1950s
General

I would like to add a third possibility, that it might be that, when we die, we just die, and that's the end of it.

— Richard Feynman 1964
General

The universe doesn't care about your feelings.

— Stephen Hawking Approx. 2000s
General

All our social policies are based on the fact that their intelligence is the same as ours — whereas all the testing says not really.

— James Watson 2007
General

It is not so much what one does, as what one is, that matters.

— Francis Crick 1988
General

The atomic bomb is a weapon which is new in many respects. It is a weapon of terror, a weapon for exterminating whole populations.

— Robert Oppenheimer 1945
War & Violence
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