Pete Postlethwaite Quotes

People say I am against Darwin. That is ridiculous.

I am used to controversies.

I love being objected to. It worries me, but I love being objected to.

Controversy is only dreaded by the advocates of error.

Life itself is controversy.

I hate consensus. I like confrontation.

Mel Gibson's father doesn't think there was a Holocaust? Great. I don't think there's a movie. We're even.

I understand that people have a critical mind towards my position. And receive a lot of confusion too.

Given the nonsense that is turned out daily by the Holocaust industry, the wonder is that there are so few skeptics.

I learned from him that often contradiction is the clearest way to truth

There is no history without polemic ... without originating in antagonism to something which exists and which it wants to combat and substitute

It is in this area Winston, that there is likely to be some disagreement between you and me.

… new truths are often struck out by the collision of parties, in the eagerness of controversy, which otherwise would have lain hid, The divine disapprobation of a form of government by kings, I take to be one of this sort of truths.

We cannot infer that because sciences of things divine and human are full of controversies and quarrels, therefore their whole subject-matter is uncertain ; for there have been many persons so enamoured of contradiction, as to turn into ridicule geometrical axioms.

First rule of change is controversy. You can't get away from it for the simple reason all issues are controversial. Change means movement, and movement means friction, and friction means heat, and heat means controversy.

I love to argue. I've always loved to argue. And I love to point out the weaknesses of the opposing arguments. It may well be that I'm something of a shin kicker. It may well be that I'm something of a contrarian.

The people who would call me an obstructionist overlook some inconvenient facts.

The 9/11 truthers hate my guts.

Whatever I do becomes controversial.

Everything I say, I expect backlash from it.

When people agree with you, they'll just like it and keep it moving, but when people don't agree with you, that's when they come for your whole neck.

Some people you struggle to argue with - they've got a lot of strong backing to what they say and what they do.

I'm not a 'but' man. Nothing good ever comes of that word.

If you're going to talk about politics, then there are going to be folks who are with you and folks that are against you.

I'm here to be the guy that rubs people the wrong way sometimes.