Quotes About Controversy

#1. Of all the writers I have read, Vladimir Nabokov has made the biggest impression on me because he, despite living through the 1917 February Revolution, forced exile amidst the anti-Semitism in Nazi Germany, the two World Wars and quite a lot of controversy, was an author who never gave up.

Ashwin Sanghi

#2. The enemy of a writer is not controversy but obscurity.

William P. Young

#3. I have never in my career embarked on a journey towards controversy. I have never deliberately set a flame.

Amanda Palmer

#4. The philosophic outlook rises above all sectarian controversy. It finds its own position not only by appreciating and synthesizing what is solidly based in the rival sects but also by capping them all with the keystone of nonduality.

Paul Brunton

#5. The truth is libraries are raucous clubhouses for free speech, controversy and community.

Paula Poundstone

#6. When both sides of a controversy revel in the defeat and humiliation of the other side, in fact they are on the same side: the side of war.

Charles Eisenstein

#7. Michael Jackson was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. It caused quite a controversy, because his nose isn't eligible for another fifteen years.

Conan O'Brien

#8. People are very afraid of any controversy. We've become very passive spectator types. And when the kids were protesting globilization - quite reasonably - they really got bashed.

Marge Piercy

#9. Only one thing is certian about coffee ... Wherever it is grown, sold, brewed, and consumed, there will be lively controversy, strong opinions, and good conversation.

Mark Pendergrast

#10. An apparently good way to get more information about religious group would be through the media. In actual fact, it's probably the worst. Why? Because what makes hot news stories are things like controversy, opposing views, harm, blood, sex, big names, big money, scandal, ect.

Stan Koehler

#11. I really feel that artists or musicians are controversial people. Controversy is part of the nature of art and creativity. If people are not doing that, they're not artists - they're artisans.

Yoko Ono

#12. No sane person should believe that something is subjective merely because it cannot be settled beyond controversy.

Hilary Putnam

#13. What is disgraceful and outrageous is that 18,000 children die of hunger every day, every one of them a preventable death. That's what the controversy should be about.

John Powell

#14. Avoid all controversy in preaching, talking, or writing; preach nothing down but the devil, and nothing up but Jesus Christ.

John Berridge

#15. Science moves fastest when there's plenty of debate and controversy.

Lee Smolin

#16. When it comes to the teapot tempest that is the Hillary Clinton email imbroglio, the real controversy isn't about politics or regulations. It's about journalism and the weak standards employed to manufacture the scandal du jour.

Kurt Eichenwald

#17. APPENDIX 2 THE PREFACE TO OLIVER TWIST AND THE NEWGATE NOVEL CONTROVERSY

Charles Dickens

#18. This notion that's peddled by the religious right - that they are oppressed is not true. Sometimes it's a cynical ploy to move their agenda ahead. The classic example being that somehow secularists are trying to eliminate Christmas, which strikes me as some kind of manufactured controversy.

Barack Obama

#19. The industry had realized you could create the impression of controversy simply by asking questions

Naomi Oreskes

#20. I need a victim and no offense Yuki, but your carrot sticks are lacking in controversy.

E.J. Stevens

#21. We are very much afflicted now by tedious, fruitless controversy. Very often, perhaps typically, the most important aspect of a controversy is not the area of disagreement but the hardening of agreement, the tacit granting on all sides of assumptions that ought not to be granted on any side.

Marilynne Robinson

#22. Great people aren't those who are happy at times of convienience and content, but of how they are in times of catastrophy and controversy.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#23. Men treat God's sovereignty as a theme for controversy, but in Scripture it is matter for worship.

J.I. Packer

#24. In general, a little controversy isn't harmful: if anything, it gets people interested.

Charles Stross

#25. A civilization in which there is not a continuous controversy about important issues is on the way to totalitarianism and death

Robert M. Hutchins

#26. I don't watch cricket much but I admire Sachin Tendulkar. I like the way he has conducted himself over the years. He has been such a huge star for so long but has not had a single controversy against his name.

Vijender Singh

#27. Sometimes its controversy, but we all have our choices that we make.

Solomon Burke

#28. Actors, who invest a lot of time and energy, will never put down each other. Every one of us has their own space in the industry. These stories are either publicity mechanisms or someone just writes them to create a controversy.

Katrina Kaif

#29. Controversy is part of the nature of art and creativity.

Yoko Ono

#30. I am disappointed by this controversy surrounding A Million Little Pieces because I rely on the publishers to define the category that a book falls within and also the authenticity of the work.

Oprah Winfrey

#31. The controversy was that Chad Dawson thought he was in an MMA fight and not a boxing match.

Bernard Hopkins

#32. First, I hate all theological controversy: it is wearing to the temper, and is I believe (at all events when viva voce) worse than useless.

Lewis Carroll

#33. You know what else that settles then tonight. This hue and cry and controversy that has been spawned by the devil to try and bring dissention within the body of Christ that we are gods. I am a little god.

Paul Crouch

#34. Until 1985, when my lab found the protein they are made of, aquaporins hadn't yet been identified. There had been a controversy in biology for more than 100 years about how water moved through cells.

Peter Agre

#35. Even though Rush is not me and the situations were very different, I think, in the Rush Limbaugh thing, ESPN was criticized for not acting, and you remember that after a couple days of controversy over Rush.

Gregg Easterbrook

#36. I don't have time to think about the false controversy,

Susan Rice

#37. The years 1781 to 1793 are crucial for many reasons, but chiefly because they pose in an especially clear way the main problem of German philosophy for the next century. This is the old conflict between reason and faith which recurred during the pantheism controversy between Jacobi and Mendelssohn.

Frederick C. Beiser

#38. EUCHARIST, n. A sacred feast of the religious sect of Theophagi. A dispute once unhappily arose among the members of this sect as to what it was that they ate. In this controversy some five hundred thousand have already been slain, and the question is still unsettled.

Ambrose Bierce

#39. That vervey spontaneity became encounter theater therapy under the direction of the Marquis de Paar, who was peerless at grittily vapid chatter, misty bathos, and scenery-chewing controversy. Dick Cavett, who wrote for Paar, said that working for him was like having an alcoholic in the family.

James Wolcott

#40. A man does not measure its height in moments of comfort, but in terms of change and controversy

Martin Luther King Jr.

#41. Young people are having a hard time with what's reality and what's fantasy these days ... We created discussion. It wasn't to create controversy for sale's sake, but rather it was my obligation to use the medium for discussion. Nobody's discussing the grown-up topics; they are faking and fronting.

Chuck D

#42. I think it's best to keep the controversy on the pages and not in our relationships.

Kayla Curry

#43. I often don't endorse what I tweet, rather I want to throw things about to spark conversation or controversy. What I think about something is not particularly important when talking to thousands of unknown strangers.

Kenneth Goldsmith

#44. I wrote a story for my kids. It's fiction. It's not systematic theology. It's not a new book of the Bible. It's flawed, I wrote it. All of that goes into the mix, but I love the controversy. It elevates the conversation.

William P. Young

#45. Some people want to have controversy between the races.

Dennis Rodman

#46. The angriest person in a controversy is the one most liable to be in the wrong.

John Tillotson

#47. McGovern's Dietary Goals had turned the dietary-fat controversy into a political issue rather than a scientific one,

Gary Taubes

#48. If you get involved in a controversy, then that becomes the mesmerizing event that people remember you by.

Newt Gingrich

#49. Controversy for the sake of controversy is sin. Controversy for the sake of truth is a divine command.

Walter Martin

#50. I've always tried to stay out of the fray and not be an object of controversy.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

#51. Of all people who engage in controversy, we, who are called Calvinists, are most expressly bound by our own principles to the exercise of gentleness and moderation.

John Newton

#52. Hillary Clinton is getting a little bit of controversy because she has the most expensive hometown office rent - over $500,000 a year. She's in a one-year lease in the office, as opposed to her marriage, which is on a month-to-month.

Jay Leno

#53. Controversy is what mediocre people start because they can't communicate anything meaningful.

G. Willow Wilson

#54. So the controversy over Duck Dynasty sends a clear signal to anyone who has anything to risk in public life: Say nothing about the sinfulness of homosexual acts or risk sure and certain destruction by the revolutionaries of the new morality. You have been warned.

Albert Mohler

#55. I think that everyone has an equal right to play and I think we've been supportive of that. With the Olympics and the controversy around that I think those decisions and those laws aren't necessarily something that I agree with personally ... their laws and their views.

Sidney Crosby

#56. One should not associate with controversy; one should always reach for the highest ratings; one should never forget that there is safety in numbers; one should always remember that comedy, adventure, and escapism provide the best atmosphere for selling.

Peter George Peterson

#57. I just lead my life as naturally, as normally as I possibly can. But I can't help it if controversy is hounding me day in and day out. I'm quite amazed sometimes by the way they go about it. I grow a beard and it lands up in the editorial in The Times of India.

Amitabh Bachchan

#58. Nothing is more dead and dated than the book which once caused controversy.

Alec Waugh

#59. I am entirely persuaded that the American public is more reasonable, restrained and mature than most of the broadcast industry's planners believe. Their fear of controversy is not warranted by the evidence.

Edward R. Murrow

#60. Whatever obstacle comes your way, you gotta be prepared to jump over it! And I think that's what separates the legends from the regular artists. It's all in how you manage that success, and how you deal with the controversy when it actually comes.

Akon

#61. [On President Clinton's address:] It was the worst inaugural address of our lifetime, and I think the only controversy will be between those who say it was completely and utterly banal and those who say, 'Well, not completely and utterly.

Peggy Noonan

#62. The late William Jennings Bryan, L.L.D., always had one great advantage in controversy; he was never burdened with an understanding of his opponent's case.

H.L. Mencken

#63. I'm always positive when it comes to professional bodybuilding, hell I'm Mr. Olympia for God's sake. If I'm number one in our sport and I have a negative attitude then our sport don't need me and I don't need our sport. There are problems and controversy in all sports. That's really unavoidable.

Ronnie Coleman

#64. I know how people are. We fixate on controversy and all that.

Tracy Morgan

#65. The opinions prevalent in one age, as truths above the reach of controversy, are confuted and rejected in another, and rise again to reception in remoter times. Thus the human mind is kept in motion without progress.

Samuel Johnson

#66. Economic controversy is generally a thankless task. You cannot hope to make any impression on your opponent. Yet he is the only reader on whose interest you can count.

Francis Ysidro Edgeworth

#67. I appreciate the decision made by Gov. Brewer to veto this legislation. I hope that we can now move on from this controversy and assure the American people that everyone is welcome to live, work and enjoy our beautiful State of Arizona.

John McCain

#68. The controversy as to whether socialism is possible has been settled by the fact that it exists, and it is a fundamental axiom of my philosophy, at any rate, that anything that exists, is possible.

Kenneth E. Boulding

#69. In politics, the reaction to a controversy is very often more enlightening and important than the details of the allegations themselves.

Tammy Bruce

#70. PRE-ADAMITE, n. One of an experimental and apparently unsatisfactory race of antedated Creation ... Little its known of them beyond the fact that they supplied Cain with a wife and theologians with a controversy.

Ambrose Bierce

#71. The controversy between rule of law and rule of men was never relevant to women because, along with juveniles, imbeciles, and other classes of legal nonpersons, they had no access to law except through men.

Freda Adler

#72. In a period of such obsessing political controversy as the present, I believe that I am that strange animal, the individual without any politics at all.

Wyndham Lewis

#73. If people can't take the heat and can't take the controversy then they shouldn't be involved in advertising of reality TV because there is so much heat and controversy in reality TV.

Jackie Warner

#74. It is past all controversy that what costs dearest is, and ought to be, most valued.

Miguel De Cervantes

#75. In the current climate motorists have a long list of issues from which to choose to raise on the doorstep. Policies aimed at reducing emissions - like the changes to Vehicle Excise Duty or here in Manchester the proposals for congestion charges - are not without controversy.

Lucy Powell

#76. How could an argument soothe or settle a controversy when every word is a nest for a bird of doubt? (meaning of words as inferences)

Edmond Jabes

#77. People like controversy because that's what sells.

Miley Cyrus

#78. When you know in your heart why you did something, and you feel and you know that in spite of all the controversy that it was right, doesn't matter.

Jane Fonda

#79. Precisely because intelligent design does not turn the study of biological origins into a Bible-science controversy, intelligent design is a position around which Christians of all stripes can unite.

William A. Dembski

#80. I understand there was some controversy about the coroner's ruling concerning Josephus Jones's

Wally Lamb

#81. Many hundred large volumes have been published upon this controversy: but the books of the Big-endians have been long forbidden, and the whole party rendered incapable by law of holding employments.

Jonathan Swift

#82. There's always been a little bit of the crusader in me, and you need dragons to slay, without the conflict and the controversy I think that what I managed to do less, and I take a great deal of pride in the accomplishment.

Hugh Hefner

#83. The political controversy surrounding this Boston's Big Dig could have the effect of throwing cold water on any plans for farsighted infrastructure development around the country.

Andrew Natsios

#84. When I write I'll sometimes say things which are somewhat controversial - not because I'm seeking out controversy for its own sake, but if I don't have anything to say which is different, why am I bothering to write stuff down in the first place?

Paul Bloom

#85. My stress on the truth in sexual stereotypes and on the biologic basis of sex differences is sure to cause controversy.

Camille Paglia

#86. Obviously, I have been a pro-choice candidate for my entire political career, and obviously there is controversy always surrounding this issue.

Claire McCaskill

#87. Thus, the controversy about the Moral Majority arises not only from its views, but from its name - which, in the minds of many, seems to imply that only one set of public policies is moral and only one majority can possibly be right.

Edward Kennedy

#88. My intention ... isn't to create controversy.

Brett Favre

#89. Third world nations are producing too many children too fast ... it is time to ignore the controversy over family planning and cut out-of-control population growth ...

Al Gore

#90. A pure heart won't get us out of conflict and controversy. It may well be the very thing that gets us into it.

John Hagee

#91. I don't like controversy.

Sammy Sosa

#92. The very fact that doctrine is hewn from bitter controversy and tested through time is sufficient reason to make them a focus of theology.

Stanley Hauerwas

#93. I think Obamacare, for all its controversy, is actually working.

Roger Altman

#94. But this controversy did not involve the corporal who refused to give thought to what his life had become as a case. God did not think of a man as a case. For a case is to be solved - and a man cannot be solved.

Joyce Carol Oates

#95. God has no greater controversy with His people today than this, that with boundless promises to believing prayer, there are so few who actually give themselves unto intercession.

Arthur Tappan Pierson

#96. The [Bernie] Sanders campaign became the center of a good old-fashioned political controversy. His coverage went from no news to bad news with the revelation that four Sanders staffers took advantage of a software glitch to access confidential voter data belonging to the Hillary Clinton campaign.

Melissa Harris-Perry

#97. David Mamet we all know is a great screenplay writer and playwright and a great director. If you like him, you like him. If you hate him, you really hate him. He's someone who's into controversy, you know what I mean? That's David Mamet.

Tom Hardy

#98. [On generating controversy] Heat sells better than light.

Jen Lawrence

#99. One's skill is never complete, one's knowledge is forever lacking, one's taste is invariably altered, one's opinion ever subject to controversy. There is a complete and constant urge towards improvement.

Andrew Loomis

#100. Throughout my political life, I've not been a stranger to controversy.

David Blunkett