Polemical Quotes

#1. I am not interested in making didactic polemical statements. That is not the way I want to make films. There is a place for polemics, but I don't think that it is in fictional cinema. Fictional cinema works subtly and deeply.

Sally Potter

#2. Polemical debates happen all the time in France.

Michel Houellebecq

#3. Interfaith dialogue is a must today, and the first step in establishing it is forgetting the past, ignoring polemical arguments, and giving precedence to common points, which far outnumber polemical ones.

Fethullah Gulen

#4. Le Corbusier is an outstanding writer. His ideas achieved their impact in large measure because he could write so convincingly. His style is utterly clear, brusque, funny and polemical in the best way.

Alain De Botton

#5. Scholastic learning and polemical divinity retarded the growth of all true knowledge.

David Hume

#6. He was never quite certain what he thought about anything until he had tested his opinion for seaworthiness in the course of some polemical storm.

Mary McCarthy

#7. I don't have any particular wish to be polemical or didactic; I don't have a 'message', but what I do thoroughly enjoy are those works of art, not necessarily in the cinema, but in the other arts as well, which have an encyclopaedic world.

Peter Greenaway

#8. Literature, art, science, and religion degenerate when polemical struggle supplants the independent creation of ideas.

Semen Frank

#9. Like any other composer of opera, I choose a subject not for polemical reasons, but because it contains vivid characters in highly charged dramatic situations.

Carlisle Floyd

#10. To preach that Jesus is the true King over all kings, the only true Son of God, and therefore the only one worthy of worship is not merely a personal conviction of individual piety but is necessarily a public, political, and polemical proclamation.

Jonathan T. Pennington

#11. I do believe that those who compare the religious Right to the Nazis have fallen victim to polemical heat prostration.

Richard John Neuhaus

#12. Some people like to bitch, Rose said. Bitching is OK. But for me, I choose a kind of joy
a lucid compulsion
a polemical kind of fuck-you-motherfucker joy.

Tom Spanbauer

#13. I may well do some more polemical writing, if a subject that fires me up comes along. Apart from that possibility, I would like to continue to tell stories so long as I have stories to tell.

Louis Begley

#14. I want to find a way of speaking to fellow human beings that will be cool rather than heated, philosophical rather than polemical, that will bring enlightenment rather than seeking to divide us into the righteous and the sinners, the saved and the damned, the sheep and the goats.

J.M. Coetzee

#15. An essay is a thing of the imagination. If there is information in an essay, it is by-the-by, and if there is an opinion, one need not trust it for the long run. A genuine essay rarely has an educational, polemical, or sociopolitical use; it is the movement of a free mind at play.

Cynthia Ozick

#16. At school I'd want to be so small that nobody could see me, and so my work depicts and reflects me - what it felt like to grow up in a world of pain.

Willard Wigan

#17. The locust continues
to devour the world
Hunger persists
Love lurches on
listing to starboard
like a ship in a bottle
Human longing goes on
Loneliness a curse
Innocence persists
Ignorance persists

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

#18. God, don't they teach you how to spell these days?"
"No," I answer. "They teach us to use spell-check.

Jodi Picoult

#19. The number of matter quanta in a given region or state is limited by the Exclusion Principle.

Rodney A. Brooks

#20. Humor is always more interesting when it comes from someone who's had more than, like, five experiences.

Mallory Ortberg

#21. Love is primarily manifested through action. Love is something you do.

Ben Young

#22. Being creative and playing with your content during the holidays is a great idea. But straying too far from your fundamental brand (from address, logo, etc.) can be a dangerous game. Your recipients need to be able to recognize you during this busy time of year.

Paul Ford

#23. Advertising ... is a parasitic activity; it forces goods for which there is no real need or demand on a foolish or even a reluctant public, always by appealing to their lower instincts.

Ann Bridge

#24. Herricks to the Baptist chapel. Though they often strolled

Lawana Blackwell