Controversial Sayings

528 sayings found from 528 authors

The French are a 'nation of calves'.

— Charles de Gaulle 1966
General

Democracy is a kingless regime infested by many kings who are sometimes more exclusive, tyrannical, and destructive than one, even if he is a tyrant.

— Benito Mussolini 1932
Political

Our regime is a democracy, but a democracy with discipline.

— Francisco Franco 1960s
Political

The Angkar is the mother and father of all Cambodians.

— Pol Pot 1975-1979
General

The death penalty is inadmissible because it is an attack on the inviolability and dignity of the person.

— Pope Francis 2018
General

Kill no living thing.

— Mahavira Circa 6th century BCE
War & Violence

To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction.

— Isaac Newton 1687
Social & Racial

All peoples must have their own homes. The home is a basic need of both the individual and the family. Therefore, it should not be owned by others.

— Muammar Gaddafi 1975
General

There is no fun in Islam. There is no laughter in Islam. There is no joy in Islam.

— Ayatollah Khomeini 1979
Religious

We are fighting for the liberation of our homeland, and we will not stop until the last inch of Palestine is free.

— Yasser Arafat 1970
General

We must expel the Arabs and take their places.

— David Ben-Gurion 1937
General

We don’t want to be better than the Arabs. We only want to be ourselves. And that is better than the Arabs.

— Golda Meir 1976
General

When we open the window, some flies will inevitably come in.

— Deng Xiaoping 1980s
General

The Germans as a whole are guilty of these mass murders and must be punished as a people...

— Albert Einstein 1945
General

The more civilized so-called Caucasian races have beaten the Turkish hollow in the struggle for existence.

— Charles Darwin 1871
Social & Racial

Justice must be done to the weak, and the powerful must be restrained.

— Haile Selassie 1936
General

It is not wealth that matters, but how it is used.

— Julius Nyerere 1968
General

I am a convinced communist. This is my main credo.

— Mikhail Gorbachev 1991
Political

You can't make a revolution in white gloves.

— Boris Yeltsin 1991
General

I mean, I'm a pretty good bowler, but I'm not a good enough bowler to be in the Special Olympics.

— Barack Obama 2009
General
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