Which Historical Figure Said the Controversial Quote?
Throughout history, public figures have left behind noteworthy and inspiring quotes attributed to them. However, some of our most historical figures have also left behind rather controversial quotes.
These controversial quotes aren’t as well known as their more inspiring ones. In fact, most people likely won’t realize who, exactly, made some of these comments.
"Direct thought is not an attribute of femininity. In this, woman is now centuries behind man."
A) Nikola Tesla
B) Henry Ford
C) Thomas Edison
D) Albert Einstein
Answer:
Thomas Edison
"Hitler turned me on in the highest."
A) Salvador Dali
B) Franklin D. Roosevelt
C) Pablo Picasso
D) Neville Chamberlain
Answer:
Salvador Dali
"Never trust a Jew!"
A) Adolf Hitler
B) Neville Chamberlain
C) Nikola Tesla
D) Henry Ford
Answer:
Nikola Tesla
"The female is a female by virtue of a certain lack of qualities; we should regard the female nature as afflicted with a natural defectiveness."
A) Aristotle
B) Plato
C) John Locke
D) Friedrich Nietzsche
Answer:
Aristotle
"I hate Indians. They are a beastly people with a beastly religion."
A) Franklin D. Roosevelt
B) John F. Kennedy
C) Winston Churchill
D) Albert Einstein
Answer:
Winston Churchill
"I think it is very beautiful for the poor to accept their lot, to share it with the passion of Christ. I think the world is being much helped by the suffering of the poor people."
A) Pope Francis
B) Mother Teresa
C) Martin Luther
D) John Locke
Answer:
Mother Teresa
"I am strongly in favour of using poisoned gas against uncivilised tribes."
A) Winston Churchill
B) Adolf Hitler
C) Franklin D. Roosevelt
D) Joseph Stalin
Answer:
Winston Churchill
“There is a physical difference between the white and black races which I believe will forever forbid the two races living together on terms of social and political equality.”
A) Martin Luther King Jr.
B) John F. Kennedy
C) Malcolm X
D) Abraham Lincoln
Answer:
Abraham Lincoln
On Domestic Abuse: "I would suggest that you analyze the whole situation and see if there is anything within your personality that arouses this tyrannical response from your husband."
A) Abraham Lincoln
B) Malcolm X
C) Martin Luther King Jr.
D) Andrew Jackson
Answer:
Martin Luther King Jr.
"The natives [of Australia] were so few in number and of such a low type, that they practically offered no resistance at all, being but little more hindrance than an equal number of ferocious beasts."
A) Winston Churchill
B) Franklin D. Roosevelt
C) Teddy Roosevelt
D) Woodrow Wilson
Answer:
Teddy Roosevelt
On His Wife: "I simply cannot bear to look at Ba's face. The expression is often like that on the face of a meek cow and gives one the feeling as a cow occasionally does, that in her own dumb manner she is saying something."
A) Martin Luther King Jr.
B) Mahatma Gandhi
C) Nelson Mandela
D) Albert Einstein
Answer:
Mahatma Gandhi
"The Aryan stock is bound to triumph."
A) Winston Churchill
B) Adolf Hitler
C) Benito Mussolini
D) Heinrich Himmler
Answer:
Winston Churchill
"I used to be cruel to my woman, and physically - any woman. I was a hitter."
A) Paul McCartney
B) Eric Clapton
C) Ringo Starr
D) John Lennon
Answer:
John Lennon
“If it be the design of Providence to extirpate these Savages in order to make room for cultivators of the Earth, it seems not improbable that rum may be the appointed means.”
A) George Washington
B) Benjamin Franklin
C) Alexander Hamilton
D) Thomas Jefferson
Answer:
Benjamin Franklin
"'Keep England White' is a good slogan.”
A) Neville Chamberlain
B) Margaret Thatcher
C) Queen Elizabeth
D) Winston Churchill
Answer:
Winston Churchill
