Top 100 Quotes About Controversy
#1. I rallied all the youth around me, all the people who liked Compa, but felt like it was dying, going away, being replaced with Zouk. So it became a movement. So, through the years, I've played my music with dedication, discipline and originality, and controversy also.
Michel Martelly
#2. No great advance has been made in science, politics, or religion without controversy.
Lyman Beecher
#3. There is no controversy within science over the core proposition of evolutionary theory.
Kenneth R. Miller
#4. The very purpose of a bill of rights is to withdraw certain subjects from ... political controversy, to place them beyond the reach of majorities.
Robert H. Jackson
#5. I have been told by a member of the board of one of Canada's most prominent literary magazines that a submission of mine once caused a great deal of controversy.
John Barton
#6. Let's cut to the chase, the sharia controversy. I don't think I, or my colleagues, predicted just how enormous the reaction would be. I failed to find the right words. I succeeded in confusing people. I've made mistakes - that's probably one of them.
Rowan Williams
#7. The dust of controversy is merely the falsehood flying off.
Thomas Carlyle
#8. I had hoped that the current presidential campaign debates might educate the public as to what is really involved in the ongoing controversy over campaign financing.
James L. Buckley
#9. Slavery is not the only question which comes up in this controversy. There is a far more important one to you, and that is, what shall be done with the free negro?
Stephen Douglas
#10. Anybody can decide a question if only a single principle is in controversy.
Felix Frankfurter
#11. It was in this atmosphere of war, heroism, and controversy that my wife's grandmother, Johanna Boel Sigurdardottir, met and fell in love with Samuel Emmett Hearn Jr. He was a gallant soldier, and she was a natural beauty.
Gudjon Bergmann
#12. I think the Bravo test is really important for a number of reasons. It's kind of symbolic. It raises a lot of the issues that are related to the whole controversy over nuclear testing.
Martha Smith
#13. A culture cannot lie down with dogs and not become utterly infested with fleas. The dogs, in this case, are the mongrel media and the corporate overlords who have grown fat on manufactured controversy and fear mongering.
Steven Weber
#14. The true measure of a man is not how he behaves in moments of comfort and convenience but how he stands at times of controversy and challenges.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#15. Those who stand for different causes during different generations often experience the same oppositions and the same difficulties as those of the previous and the next generations. That is the basis of history repeating itself.
Criss Jami
#16. Whenever I write anything that sets up controversy its meaning is distorted almost instantly. Even the editorial writers of newspapers seem to be unable to understand the plainest sentence.
H.L. Mencken
#17. I know the pundits and the news media have carried a lot of commentary about cameras in the courtroom, and there's a lot of controversy about it as a result of the Simpson case. But I have not had enough time to step back and enough time to evaluate that.
Lance Ito
#18. It must also be noted that until the present time this malady, like religious controversy, has been wholly confined to the continent of Europe.
Voltaire
#19. A lot of controversy over this possible invasion of Iraq. In fact, Nelson Mandela was so upset, he called Bush's dad. How embarrassing, when world leaders start calling your father.
Jay Leno
#20. How about this John Kerry controversy? So he's out there in California, tells some kind of joke and it backfires. He's saying he botched the joke ... This guy can lose elections he's not even in.
David Letterman
#22. Controversy is always a beautiful thing. I love controversy and I try to fan it as much as I can without having my husband's head pop off!
Jada Pinkett Smith
#23. It can't hurt, publicity is publicity, controversy and all that, it's all good.
Keith David
#24. Controversy What controversy This is reality. What I see is that no matter if you're a conservative or a liberal or whatever side you stand on, this is the reality of the situation - that people's families and their young kids are being affected.
Billie Joe Armstrong
#25. If you believe that I'm a cop killer, you believe David Bowie is an astronaut.
Ice-T
#26. The teenager seems to have replaced the Communist as the appropriate target for public controversy and foreboding.
Edgar Friedenberg
#27. Peer review was an excellent system by which academics could either anonymously censor others with whom they disagreed, or hide from controversy after they signed off on truth that the public couldn't stomach.
B.C. Chase
#28. I don't want to sound disingenuous here - controversy is obviously good for business, especially if your business is satire. And it does amplify the discussion - in my view, a good thing.
Garry Trudeau
#29. Possible controversy for the Obama campaign. Republicans are now accusing Barack Obama's campaign of voter fraud, because some of the people they've registered sound like they have fake names. Apparently, the fakest-sounding name is Barack Obama.
Conan O'Brien
#30. Controversy, though always an evil in itself, is sometimes a necessary evil.
Richard Whately
#31. I think you don't do work for controversy alone, and whenever you do new work which people don't understand and they say it is done to create controversy.
M. F. Husain
#32. Give Ireland back to the Irish, don't make them have to take it away.
Paul McCartney
#33. I realize that definitions spark controversy and disagreement, but I'm okay with that. I'd rather we debate the meaning of words that are important to us than not discuss them at all.
Brene Brown
#34. I don't do things for the response or for the controversy. I just live my life.
Rihanna
#35. It is not he who gains the exact point in dispute who scores most in controversy - but he who has shown the better temper.
Samuel Butler
#36. I don't seek controversy. I don't seek to antagonize. Sometimes it happens, but I'm not there to argue politics.
Marc Maron
#37. There have been five great kisses since 1642 B.C ... (before then couples hooked thumbs.) And the precise rating of kisses is a terribly difficult thing, often leading to great controversy ... Well, this one left them all behind.
William Goldman
#38. In light of the recent controversy surrounding foreign management of U.S. Ports, a thorough review of foreign management of U.S. airports needs to occur.
Jon Porter
#39. He seemed evidently more fond of controversy than of truth, and the whole turn of his conversation indicated that he derived his religious security rather from the adoption of a party, than from the implantation of a new principle.
Hannah More
#40. The recent medical controversy over whether vaccinations cause autism reveals a habit of human cognition - thinking anecdotally comes naturally, whereas thinking scientifically does not.
Michael Shermer
#41. The whole idea of a spokesman is a joke and a fraud if you drop someone like a hot potato if there's controversy.
Jerry Della Femina
#42. The unknowable creates the greatest controversies.
Mason Cooley
#44. Controversy and contention are weakening habits. If Satan can succeed in creating in us the pastime of arguing, quarreling, and contention, it is easier for him to bind us with heavier sins which can destroy our eternal lives. Anger is a poor substitute for self-mastery and compassionate service.
Marvin J. Ashton
#45. Lawsuits are rare and catastrophic experiences for the vast majority of men, and even when the catastrophe ensues, the controversy relates most often not to the law, but to the facts. In countless litigations, the law Is so clear that judges have no discretion.
Benjamin N. Cardozo
#46. Why is there so much controversy about drug testing? I know plenty of guys who would be willing to test any drug they could come up with
George Carlin
#48. Wit has its place in debate; in controversy it is a legitimate weapon, offensive and defensive.
Theodore Parker
#49. When there is a spirit of controversy in the church or in the land, a revival is needful. The spirit of religion is not the spirit of controversy. There can be no prosperity in religion, where the spirit of controversy prevails.
Charles Grandison Finney
#50. Large corporations have the ability to distract people with controversy that just distracts people from what's great about the movie or what works about the movie.
Peter Landesman
#51. I always ask myself one question: what is human? What does it mean to be human? Maybe people will consider my new films brutal again. But this violence is just a reflection of what they really are, of what is in each one of us to certain degree.
Kim Ki-duk
#52. If you have the temerity to try to dramatize a theme that involves any particular social controversy currently extant ... then you're in deep trouble.
Rod Serling
#53. When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest.
William Hazlitt
#54. In the field of controversy I always pity the moderate party, who stand on the open middle ground exposed to the fire of both sides.
Edward Gibbon
#55. We're always doing a lot of user studies on health and safety. We take it super seriously. But if you look back at the history of most new big technology breakthroughs, there is some element of controversy around what impact is it going to have.
Brendan Iribe
#56. Out of anger comes controversy, out of controversy comes conversation, out of conversation comes action.
Tupac Shakur
#58. Ultimately, the controversy around PETA may have less to do with the organization than with those of us who stand in judgment of it - that is, with the unpleasant realization that "those PETA people" have stood up for the values we have been too cowardly or forgetful to defend ourselves.
Jonathan Safran Foer
#59. I started reading and learned that we don't need any of it - meat, dairy products. We get everything we need without those things - except maybe B12, but there's this whole controversy that maybe we're only getting B12 because the animals are being fed B12 supplements.
Ginnifer Goodwin
#60. My mum is West African, from Senegal; my dad is from Grenada. There was a huge controversy about them getting together.
Estelle
#61. Have you folks been following the controversy with John Kerry and his service in Vietnam and the Swift Boat campaign? It all took place in Vietnam and now it just won't go away. I was thinking about this - if John Kerry had just ducked the war like everybody else he wouldn't have this trouble.
David Letterman
#62. My greatest disappointment in all the projects I worked on during the White House years was the failure of the Equal Rights Amendment to be ratified ... Why all the controversy and why such difficulty in giving women the protection of the Constitution that should have been theirs long ago?
Rosalynn Carter
#63. Think of controversy as the necessary mating ritual before various good ideas can give birth to progress.
Lois Kelly
#64. I wouldn't be worth my salt if I weren't attracting some controversy and criticism. Everyone in the world who has done something in life has attracted criticism.
Margaret Thatcher
#65. Speaking of the motto of the New York Times, "All the news that's fit to print:" It is hard to think of any group of seven words that have aroused more newspaper controversy.
Gerald W. Johnson
#66. Before it was emails, it was Benghazi, and the Republicans were stirring up so much controversy about that. And I testified for 11 hours, answered their questions. They basically said yeah, didn't get her. We tried. That was all a political ploy.
Hillary Clinton
#67. The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#68. He was definitely known as the foremost man killer in the West; however there's controversy about virtually every killing that he was known to have been involved in.
Keith Carradine
#69. I don't get afraid in talking about subject matter that may spark controversy, and I'm not afraid to not be liked. I think that sometimes people pay too much attention to being liked, and it's paralyzing.
Jada Pinkett Smith
#70. Promises controversy on a scale not seen since Samuel Huntington's Clash of Civilizations sought to reframe a new world order.
Stefan Halper
#71. Words don't need to be spoken to devastate. They have only to be thought. Words band together to form opinions, which strut along the back roads of our minds, inciting doubt and controversy. Opinions rally toward a cause - a belief.
Miguel Ruiz
#72. But to call God "almighty" does cause problems for some. J.I. Packer says, "Men treat God's sovereignty as a theme for controversy, but in Scripture it is a matter of worship.
Raymond F. Cannata
#73. How could anything non-controversial be of intellectual interest to grown-ups?
Edward Abbey
#74. All real lives hold controversy, trials, mistakes, and regrets. What matters is what you do next.
Katherine Reay
#75. From the outset, however, this whole controversy has been plagued by tacit assumptions, very often of a philosophical rather than a physical character ...
David Bohm
#76. I love it when my books cause controversy, when people argue violently about the ending.
Joanne Harris
#77. Gans and Savigny controversy; he took Savigny, he took Gans, read
Victor Hugo
#78. The theory of politics that emerges from the political literature of the pre-Revolutionary years rests on the belief that what lay behind every political scene, the ultimate explanation of every political controversy, was the disposition of power.
Bernard Bailyn
#79. Bring on the controversy. I write real life. It's harsh and sometimes gritty, but it's real. Why should we tip toe around that?
Shandy L. Kurth
#80. I'm reminded of the lady governor of Texas who, during a controversy about bilingualism in the State House in Austin, said if English was good enough for Jesus Christ, it was plenty good enough for her.
Christopher Hitchens
#81. Political success is often dependent on the ability to be heard above the din of controversy and debate and to set a course with one's own compass.
Madeleine M. Kunin
#82. The die is cast. The people have passed the river and cut away the bridge. Last night three cargoes of tea were emptied into the harbor. This is the grandest event which has ever yet happened since the controversy with Britain opened.
John Adams
#83. Any serious analysis of Marxism must begin with the controversy over whether he is a humanist champion of free will or a determinist. Because Marxian writings on the subject often are so contradictory, it is impossible to know for sure.
Kenneth Deutsch
#84. I enjoy punk, the attitude as well as the music, but I don't feel like I have to be a carbon copy of it and invite all this controversy just to be punk rock.
Hayley Williams
#85. There is all this controversy that women and girls are too skinny or too overweight. I say to just do martial arts and everything will be okay. You will tone up your body and find a confidence you can't find just sitting around watching TV and hanging out with friends.
Milla Jovovich
#86. The greater the controversy, the more you need manners.
Judith Martin
#87. I want to get physical, let's get into physical, let me hear your body talk, your body talk.
Olivia Newton-John
#88. This whole controversy about global warming or even evolution - politicians just don't want to take the time to educate themselves.
Rush D. Holt Jr.
#89. My mom was always a big fan of Elvis. She made me listen to Elvis when I was a kid. I hated it. And I think now I've kind of grown up to fill in some of the sort of controversy that he created back in his day, but in a much more extreme, modern sense.
Marilyn Manson
#90. Make a start, even if you have a controversial idea!
Abhishek Ratna
#92. When men understand what each other mean, they see, for the most part, that controversy is either superfluous or hopeless
John Henry Newman
#93. There was no real controversy with All In The Family. That came from the people on the business end.
Norman Lear
#94. A lot was happening, plus there were an enormous number of people in the industry that were going to conventions, so it was a pretty fun time. Also there was a lot of controversy and I was at the forefront of some of that.
Todd McFarlane
#95. Up come a flat top, he was movin' up with me.
Chuck Berry
#96. It's like you came to a controversy and a ball game breaks out.
Matt Keough
#97. He wanted to be respectable rather than powerful; he did not want the controversy that went with power.
David Halberstam
#98. First rule of change is controversy. You can't get away from it for the simple reason all issues are controversial. Change means movement, and movement means friction, and friction means heat, and heat means controversy.
Saul Alinsky
#99. My whole life is controversy. What can I do? I'm like Britney Spears!
Andrej Pejic
#100. My career has been riddled with controversy, which I never fully understand.
Liz Phair
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