Top 23 Controversial Ideas Quotes
#1. You can't have a university without having free speech, even though at times it makes us terribly uncomfortable. If students are not going to hear controversial ideas on college campuses, they're not going to hear them in America. I believe it's part of their education.
Donna Shalala
#2. A child who is protected from all controversial ideas is as vulnerable as a child who is protected from every germ. The infection, when it comes- and it will come- may overwhelm the system, be it the immune system or the belief system.
Jane Smiley
#3. All ideas having even the slightest redeeming social importance - unorthodox ideas, controversial ideas, even ideas hateful to the prevailing climate of opinion, have the full protection of the guarantees [of the First Amendment].
William J. Brennan
#4. The resistance is the voice in your head telling you to use bullets in your PowerPoint slides ... It's the voice that tells you to leave controversial ideas out of the paper you're writing, because the teacher won't like them. The resistance pushes relentlessly for you to fit in.
Seth Godin
#5. Many a time, we let go of some really good ideas just because we feel they are too controversial.
Abhishek Ratna
#7. Karma is what we fabricate when we no longer trust the universe.
Ethan Nichtern
#8. I don't really know what 'a dark place' means. I have windows in my house, and I'm generally an upbeat person! A lot of people throw that word at me because I wear a lot of black and leather.
Natalia Kills
#9. Books whose topics I thoroughy depsise are accapteble because they often force the reader to think and to examine his own beliefs. In an age where most people are either blindly obedient or radical, exposing oneself to the ideas contained in even the most controversial of books is a good thing.
Tiffini Johnson
#10. I forbid you, agnostic, doubting thoughts, to destroy the house of my faith.
Thomas S. Monson
#11. There are days I'm feeling lazy, and my mom will remind me, 'Beyonce also only has 24 hours during the day.' That always keeps me going.
Becky G
#12. If my phrases shock the reader, that only shows it is high time he or she was shocked.
H.G.Wells
#13. It's disgusting that a Broadway show can't try out anymore, that no matter where they are in the world, there is this massive dialogue going on between people damning or praising it.
Victor Garber
#14. In one sphere above all others, Anne Boleyn still had the power to influence him, and that was in the case of church reform. Anne was a passionate and sincere evangelical, the owner of a library of controversial reformist literature, and she was sympathetic to radical and even Lutheran ideas.
Alison Weir
#16. When all is done, human life is, at the greatest and the best, but like a froward child, that must be played with and humored a little to keep it quiet till it falls asleep, and then the care is over.
William Temple
#17. It's weird, because the ideas in my songs aren't controversial to me. I feel like I should be able to sing about anything.
Kacey Musgraves
#18. I've always been controversial because I offer new ideas. For me to be controversial, I think this is positive.
Avigdor Lieberman
#19. A true man of honor feels humbled himself when he cannot help humbling others.
Robert E.Lee
#20. Make a start, even if you have a controversial idea!
Abhishek Ratna
#21. Don't just look for your miracle. Become someone else's miracle.
Joel Osteen
#22. Her mind is an unquiet one, words and thoughts and impulses constantly crashing into each other.
David Levithan
