Comforting Quote by Colin Powell

“the First Amendment exists to protect controversial speech, not speech we love that ruffles no feathers.”

— Megyn Kelly

Those who misrepresent the normal experiences of life, who decry being controversial, who shun risk, are the enemies of the American way of life,…

— Henry Wriston

It's funny how something so normal and mundane that you see every day-your body-can be controversial. The shock value is intense. It's like carrying…

— Beth Ditto

We should resist the temptation to identify our religious convictions with the platform of a party or the platitudes of favored politicians.

— Ralph E. Reed, Jr

It is strange how long we rebel against a platitude until suddenly in a different lingo it looms up again as the only verity.

— Ruth Benedict

There is no greater mistake than to suppose that platitudes, smooth words, and timid policies offer a path to safety.

— Winston Churchill

The Chautauqua Institution is truly a national treasure. It is a place for contemplation and a place for reflection, a place where platitudes and…

— Eliot Spitzer

When Catholicism goes bad it becomes the world-old, world-wide religio of amulets and holy places and priestcraft. Protestantism,in its corresponding decay, becomes a vague…

— C. S. Lewis

My platitudes don't hold their interest and I can hardly blame them for that. My real stories are all out of date. So what…

— Sara Gruen

The idea of Macbeth as a conscience-torm ented man is a platitude as false as Macbeth himself. Macbeth has no conscience. His main concern…

— Mary McCarthy

“The writer does not dare dream of giving the best of his individuality. No, he must never express his anger. The vacillating demands of…

— Aleksandar Hemon

Truth is rhythmical: if it implies stasis, it is platitude. Truth is syncopated: if it supplies all the terms, there is one term too…

— Robert Grudin