Polemical Style Quotes

#1. May the life I live speak for me, not my religion or denomination title.

Dee Dee M. Scott

#2. I still want to do what I want to do, but we also have to think about some sense of protecting the business that's out there as well.

Paul Weller

#3. Stick me in a confessional and ask the question: Sir, if you had the authority, would you forbid smoking in America? You'd get a solemn and contrite, Yes.

William F. Buckley Jr.

#4. When you raise the dead, they bring their baggage.

William Gibson

#5. It was you. Always. Only ever you.

Nalini Singh

#6. I am very interested in what has been called bad taste. I believe the fear of displaying a soi-disant bad taste stops us from venturing into special cultural zones.

Manuel Puig

#7. The problem isn't that people remember through photographs but that they remember only the photographs.

Susan Sontag

#8. I always question if somebody else is going to love my films. I think that's what art is about - it's so individual.

Lee Daniels

#9. 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

#10. Don't change your mind just because people are offended; change your mind if you're wrong.

Criss Jami

#11. Be Briton still to Britain true,
Among oursel's united;
For never but by British hands
Maun British wrangs be righted.

Robert Burns

#12. Interviews were invented to make journalism less passive. Instead of waiting for something to happen, journalists ask someone what should or could happen.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#13. I had to tell someone that a panther-hipped boy had come to live in my backyard.

April Genevieve Tucholke

#14. If you resort to violent methods because the other side has destroyed your monastery, for example, you then have lost not only your monastery, but also your special Buddhist practices of detachment, love, and compassion.

Dalai Lama