Polemics Quotes

When I was in advertising we used naked women to pull them in. Now I use swastikas and uniforms.

Did Stalin make mistakes? Of course he did. In so long a period filled with heroism, trials, struggle, triumphs, it is inevitable not only for Joseph Stalin personally but also for the leadership as a collective body to make mistakes. Which is the party and who is the leader that can claim to have made no mistakes in their work? When the existing leadership of the Soviet Union is criticized, the comrades of the Soviet leadership advise us to look ahead and let bygones be bygones, they tell us to avoid polemics, but when it comes to Stalin, they not only did not look ahead but they turned right round, completely backward, in order to track down only the weak spots in Stalin's work.

Doubtless there are times when controversy becomes a necessary evil. But let us remember that it is an evil.

These days we think our politics are nasty and partisan. But our discourse looks like a Platonic symposium compared with the vicious fighting that marked the early Republic.

All successful newspapers are ceaselessly querulous and bellicose. They never defend anyone or anything if they can help it; if the job is forced upon them, they tackle it by denouncing someone or something else..

Calling Rand Paul 'the most interesting man in politics' is an invitation to an argument - but one we suspect he'd love to have.

In the sports world it's all about argument. It's all about having a hot take. The other person has to have the polar opposite opinion, and you bash them together. To me it is an outlier to have a conversation be the basis of why you are listening.

One parody is worth a thousand polemics.

If I have written too polemically, it is only because of the passionate concern that we consider because it is too late whether we truly know what we are doing.

It is better to discuss things, to argue and engage in polemics than make perfidious plans of mutual destruction.

The United States should not engage in tit-for-tat polemics directed at its most important allies. That is as demeaning as it is destructive.

Literary criticism now is all pranks and polemics.

Yeah, I am controversy's favourite child. But I am of the opinion that I come back stronger after every controversy.

I don't think I'm cut out to be a supervillain. I think I'd be a supervillain that would exercise some form of mind control. Rather than war, I'd force people to get on with each other and I'd force people to argue reasonably about things rather than be polemical. So I'd be a supervillain that makes everyone get on, but forcefully. There would be no choice about it. No free will.

Debates, I hate.

I ceased in the year 1764 to believe that one can convince one’s opponents with arguments printed in books. It is not to do that, therefore, that I have taken up my pen, but merely so as to annoy them, and to bestow strength and courage on those on our own side, and to make it known to the others that they have not convinced us.

Religious controversies are always productive of more acrimony and irreconcilable hatreds than those which spring from any other cause.

The Eisenhower Memorial competition and project have stirred a remarkable polemic, the center of which is not President Eisenhower or Washington, D.C. but Mr. Gehry and the values he promulgates.

Once I feel I'm right, I have enjoyed provoking.

When you are working a Republican crowd, and want to throw out some red meat, you can’t do any better than jumping on Ted Kennedy.

The most savage controversies are about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.

I don't know how I became controversy's favourite child.

Polemical debates happen all the time in France.

I think that when you have audacity, you will get polarization.

I do not enter any controversy.