Controversial Sayings

515 sayings found

The world is divided into men who have brains and no religion, and men who have religion and no brains.

— Avicenna (Ibn Sina) approx. 1020
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What is easiest and most useful in arithmetic, such as men frequently require in cases of inheritance, legacies, partition, lawsuits, and trade.

— Al-Khwarizmi 830
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I'm not a science fiction writer. I've only written one science fiction book in my life, and that's 'Fahrenheit 451.' All the others are fantasy.

— Ray Bradbury 2001
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Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.

— Philip K. Dick 1978
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The peasants are like animals; they understand nothing but the whip.

— Tycho Brahe 1580s
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It is a shameful thing for a Christian to be ignorant of the works of nature.

— Robert Boyle 1680s
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I would not fear a pack of lions led by a sheep, but I would always fear a flock of sheep led by a lion.

— Alexander the Great 330 BCE
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We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings.

— Ursula K. Le Guin 2014
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Nolite te bastardes carborundorum.

— Margaret Atwood 1985
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The Satanic Verses is a novel about migration, metamorphosis, divided selves, love, death, London, and Bombay. It is a serious work of literature.

— Salman Rushdie 1989
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I’m not a fan of organized religion. I think it’s a way of controlling people.

— Haruki Murakami 2011
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Some people are saying that the film 'Joker' is dangerous, and it is. Because it's so good. It's so good.

— Stephen King 2019
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Not all those who wander are lost.

— J.R.R. Tolkien 1954
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The white man's burden is to civilize the savage races; it is a duty laid upon us by God.

— Arthur Conan Doyle 1909
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All for one, and one for all.

— Alexandre Dumas 1844
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Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit.

— Virgil ~29-19 BC
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Omne solum forti patria est.

— Ovid ~8 AD
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The earth is a tavern, and we are all drunkards. Some are drunk with wine, others with ambition, still others with love.

— Hafez c. 1380
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What sholde I speke of the synne of glotonye, that is so greet a synne?

— Geoffrey Chaucer c. 1390s
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For what can be more unjust than to throw the blame of a bad cause upon the fault of the first man?

— John Milton 1644
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