Controversial Quotes

To be controversial. Well, that means you've said something worth talking about. That you haven't followed the flock, and haven't hidden in the shadows. That you've dared to disturb some minds, or even shake some entrenched beliefs. Is this bad? Absolutely not! Change always begins with a bold idea, with a word that may seem unconventional to some, but which illuminates a new way of thinking.

How many times has the world needed a voice to break the silence? So how do these bold quotes and ideas express defiance, facing rejection, and the daring to spark discussion?

Quote by Winston Churchill: The women's suffrage movement is only the small edge of the wedge, if we allow women to vote it will...
The women's suffrage movement is only the small edge of the wedge, if we allow women to vote it will mean the loss of social structure and the rise of every liberal cause under the sun. Women are well represented by their fathers, brothers, and husbands.
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— Winston Churchill
ControversialWomen S RightsHistoryPoliticsSociety
Quote by Winston Churchill: I am strongly in favour of using poisoned gas against uncivilised tribes....
I am strongly in favour of using poisoned gas against uncivilised tribes.
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— Winston Churchill
ControversialColonialismEthicsHistory
Quote by Winston Churchill: I do not understand this squeamishness about the use of gas. We have definitely adopted the position...
I do not understand this squeamishness about the use of gas. We have definitely adopted the position at the Peace Conference of arguing in favour of the retention of gas as a permanent method of warfare. It is sheer affectation to lacerate a man with the poisonous fragment of a bursting shell and to boggle at making his eyes water by means of lachrymatory gas.
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— Winston Churchill
ControversialEthicsHistoryViolenceWeapons
Quote by Winston Churchill: I do not apologize for the takeover of the region by the Jews from the Palestinians in the same way ...
I do not apologize for the takeover of the region by the Jews from the Palestinians in the same way I don't apologize for the takeover of America by the whites from the Red Indians or the takeover of Australia from the blacks. It is natural for a superior race to dominate an inferior one.
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— Winston Churchill
ControversialHistoryRacePowerImperialism
Quote by Winston Churchill: I do not understand this squeamishness about the use of gas... I am strongly in favour of using pois...
I do not understand this squeamishness about the use of gas... I am strongly in favour of using poisoned gas against uncivilised tribes... It is not necessary to use only the most deadly gases: gases can be used which cause great inconvenience and would spread a lively terror and yet would leave no serious permanent effects on most of those affected.
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— Winston Churchill
ControversialColonialismEthicsHistoryViolence
Quote by Winston Churchill: Improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce and insecurity of ...
Improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live.
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— Winston Churchill
ControversialHistoryReligionCriticismSociety
Quote by Winston Churchill: I do not agree that the dog in a manger has the final right to the manger even though he may have la...
I do not agree that the dog in a manger has the final right to the manger even though he may have lain there for a very long time. I do not admit that right. I do not admit for instance, that a great wrong has been done to the Red Indians of America or the black people of Australia. I do not admit that a wrong has been done to these people by the fact that a stronger race, a higher-grade race, a more worldly wise race to put it that way, has come in and taken their place.
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— Winston Churchill
ControversialHistoryColonialismRaceEthicsJusticeRights
Quote by Thomas A. Edison: Everyone steals in commerce and industry. I've stolen a lot, myself. But I know how to steal! They d...
Everyone steals in commerce and industry. I've stolen a lot, myself. But I know how to steal! They don't know how to steal!
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— Thomas A. Edison
HumorBusinessEthicsInnovationCommerceControversial
Quote by Winston Churchill: No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a milita...
No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith.
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— Winston Churchill
ReligionIslamCritiqueHistoryControversial
Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche: Are you visiting women? Do not forget your whip...
Are you visiting women? Do not forget your whip
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— Friedrich Nietzsche
GenderPower DynamicsMetaphorControversial
Quote by Muhammad Ali: The only way for peace between the races is a separation of the races....
The only way for peace between the races is a separation of the races.
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— Muhammad Ali
RaceSegregationPeaceControversialCivil Rights