The long and distressing controversy over capital punishment is very unfair to anyone meditating murder.

I have asked myself once or twice lately what was my natural bent. I have no doubt at all: It is to look at each day for the evil of that day and have a go at it, and that is why I have never failed to have an acute interest in each morning's letters.

The long and distressing controversy over capital punishment is very unfair to anyone meditating murder.

This country and the Commonwealth last Tuesday were not far from the Kingdom of Heaven.

In cities no one is quiet but many are lonely; in the country, people are quiet but few are lonely.

My feelings are those of a schoolboy getting in sight of the holidays. Or more seriously, my feelings are perhaps those of a matador who has decided not to enter the bull ring.

Until you know that life is interesting - and find it so - you haven't found your soul.

I hope that by going to visit the pope I have enabled everybody to see that the words Catholic and Protestant, as ordinarily used, are completely out of date. They are almost always used now purely for propaganda purposes. That is why so much trouble is caused by them.

Once you start, there is no end to who is to go in and who is to be left out.

Who knows whether in retirement I shall be tempted to the last infirmity of mundane minds, which is to write a book.

Some of the press who speak loudly about the freedom of the press are themselves the enemies of freedom. Countless people dare not say a thing because they know it will be picked up and made a song of by the press. That limits freedom.

In a civilized society, all crimes are likely to be sins, but most sins are not and ought not to be treated as crimes. Man's ultimate responsibility is to God alone.

When you aim for perfection, you discover it's a moving target.

When you aim for perfection, you discover it's a moving target.

When you aim for perfection, you discover it's a moving target.

For any new technology there is always controversy and there always some fear associated with it. I think that's just the price of being first sometimes.

Slavery is not the only question which comes up in this controversy. There is a far more important one to you, and that is, what shall be done with the free negro?

I have the New York Daily News to thank for the jeans controversy.

I think the Bravo test is really important for a number of reasons. It's kind of symbolic. It raises a lot of the issues that are related to the whole controversy over nuclear testing.

That was after Napoleon died because there is still a controversy as to whether Napoleon was poisoned with arsenic. And the French say the British did it and the British say the French did it, but he died before the test for arsenic was available.

Michael Jackson was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. It caused quite a controversy, because his nose isn't eligible for another fifteen years.

If it matters, it produces controversy.

The long and distressing controversy over capital punishment is very unfair to anyone meditating murder.

Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the danger of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of "crackpot" than the stigma of conformity.

Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the dangers of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of 'crackpot' than the stigma of conformity. And on issues that seem important to you, stand up and be counted at any cost.

There was no real controversy with All In The Family. That came from the people on the business end.

I have been told by a member of the board of one of Canada's most prominent literary magazines that a submission of mine once caused a great deal of controversy.

Even though Rush is not me and the situations were very different, I think, in the Rush Limbaugh thing, ESPN was criticized for not acting, and you remember that after a couple days of controversy over Rush.

But we have to pass the bill so you can find out what is in it, away from the fog of the controversy.

Anybody can decide a question if only a single principle is in controversy.

Controversy is only dreaded by the advocates of error.

It is the role of good journalism to take on powerful abusers, and when powerful abusers are taken on, there's always a bad reaction. So we see that controversy, and we believe that is a good thing to engage in.

I know the pundits and the news media have carried a lot of commentary about cameras in the courtroom, and there's a lot of controversy about it as a result of the Simpson case. But I have not had enough time to step back and enough time to evaluate that.

I am a shocker. I like to create controversy. It's my trademark.

It can't hurt, publicity is publicity, controversy and all that, it's all good.

An entertainer should in his public performance keep himself out of any controversy, political or otherwise.

Thus, the controversy about the Moral Majority arises not only from its views, but from its name - which, in the minds of many, seems to imply that only one set of public policies is moral and only one majority can possibly be right.

It is not he who gains the exact point in dispute who scores most in controversy - but he who has shown the better temper.

I had hoped that the current presidential campaign debates might educate the public as to what is really involved in the ongoing controversy over campaign financing.

I just lead my life as naturally, as normally as I possibly can. But I can't help it if controversy is hounding me day in and day out. I'm quite amazed sometimes by the way they go about it. I grow a beard and it lands up in the editorial in The Times of India.

The abortion controversy is important for what it says about our stance toward procreation and children altogether.

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.

You know, this is - one can imagine how life would be different if one body of Congress was controlled by the other party, there would be subpoena power and there would be all - mechanisms to get to the bottom of all sorts of issues of controversy.

In light of the recent controversy surrounding foreign management of U.S. Ports, a thorough review of foreign management of U.S. airports needs to occur.

There was endless controversy as to whether the acts of the New Deal did actually move recovery or retard it, and nothing final could ever come of that bitter debate because it is forever impossible to prove what might have happened in place of what did.

For what I wrote that started this whole controversy, I deserved to be criticized, and I felt bad about writing it. I felt bad mainly as a writer and a thinker.

No sane person should believe that something is subjective merely because it cannot be settled beyond controversy.

When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest.