Quotes about Controversy

Controversy is only dreaded by the advocates of error. Votes: 7

I don't do things for the response or for the controversy. I just live my life. Votes: 5

Controversy equalizes fools and wise men in the same way - and the fools know it. Votes: 5

When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest. Votes: 5

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. Votes: 5

Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the danger of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of 'crackpot' than the stigma of conformity. Votes: 5

It is the role of good journalism to take on powerful abusers, and when powerful abusers are taken on, there's always a bad reaction. So we see that controversy, and we believe that is a good thing to engage in. Votes: 5

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. Votes: 5

Controversy is part of the nature of art and creativity. Votes: 4

Controversy equalizes fools and wise men in the same way - and the fools know it. Votes: 4

Controversy is a last resort for the talentless. Votes: 3

The dust of controversy is merely the falsehood flying off. Votes: 3

Controversy is what mediocre people start because they can't communicate anything meaningful. Votes: 3

Controversy, though always an evil in itself, is sometimes a necessary evil. Votes: 3

Sometimes its controversy, but we all have our choices that we make. Votes: 3

Controversy chases the Russian writer Vladimir Sorokin the way a dog chases a stick. Votes: 3

No great advance has ever been made in science, politics, or religion, without controversy. Votes: 3

The most savage controversies are about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way. Votes: 3

Controversy for the sake of controversy is sin. Controversy for the sake of truth is a divine command. Votes: 3

Doubtless there are times when controversy becomes a necessary evil. But let us remember that it is an evil. Votes: 3

It is very unfair in any writer to employ ignorance and malice together, because it gives his answerer double work. Votes: 3

In a controversy, the instant we feel anger, we have already ceased striving for truth and have begun striving for ourselves. Votes: 3

A civilization in which there is not a continuous controversy about important issues is on the way to totalitarianism and death Votes: 3

The precipitancy of disputation, and the stir and noise of passions that usually attend it, must needs be prejudicial to verity. Votes: 3

Most controversies would soon be ended, if those engaged in them would first accurately define their terms, and then adhere to their definitions. Votes: 3

The passionate controversies of one era are viewed as sterile preoccupations by another, for knowledge alters what we seek as well as what we find. Votes: 3

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! Votes: 3

It is almost always the unhappiness of a victorious disputant to destroy his own authority by claiming too many consequences, or diffusing his proposition to an indefensible extent. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

This fear of criticism displayed by the advocates of freedom of criticism cannot be attributed solely to craftiness. No, the majority of the Economists look with sincere resentment upon all theoretical controversies, factional disagreements, broad political questions, plans for organising revolutionaries, etc. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

Men of many words sometimes argue for the sake of talking; men of ready tongues frequently dispute for the sake of victory; men in public life often debate for the sake of opposing the ruling party, or from any other motive than the love of truth. Votes: 3

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." Votes: 3

What Tully said of war may be applied to disputing: "It should be always so managed as to remember that the only true end of it is peace." But generally true disputants are like true sportsmen,--their whole delight is in the pursuit; and the disputant no more cares for the truth than the sportsman for the hare. Votes: 3

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands in times of challenge and controversy. The true neighbor will risk his position, his prestige, and even his life for the welfare of others. In dangerous valleys and hazardous pathways, he will lift some bruised and beaten brother to a higher and more noble life. Votes: 3

People like controversy because that's what sells. Votes: 2

The greater the controversy, the more you need manners. Votes: 2

Global warming is controversial, of course, but the controversy is mainly over whether human activity is driving it. Votes: 2

Obviously, I have been a pro-choice candidate for my entire political career, and obviously there is controversy always surrounding this issue. Votes: 2

In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves. Votes: 2

But we have to pass the bill so you can find out what is in it, away from the fog of the controversy. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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? Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

I'm not an activist; I don't look for controversy. I'm not a political person, but I'm a person with compassion. I care passionately about equal rights. I care about human rights. I care about animal rights. Votes: 2

I think controversy is not always a bad thing. Jesus was controversial. It's through controversy that people often wake up and smell the coffee and say, 'What's going on here? Do we need to rethink something here?' Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

There was endless controversy as to whether the acts of the New Deal did actually move recovery or retard it, and nothing final could ever come of that bitter debate because it is forever impossible to prove what might have happened in place of what did. Votes: 2

Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the dangers of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of 'crackpot' than the stigma of conformity. And on issues that seem important to you, stand up and be counted at any cost. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

A civilization in which there is not a continuous controversy about important issues is on the way to totalitarianism and death Votes: 1

If it matters, it produces controversy. Votes: 0

My intention... isn't to create controversy. Votes: 0

My books have all generated controversy. Votes: 0

Can one consider controversy without falling into it? Votes: 0

Some people want to have controversy between the races. Votes: 0

Politics, or controversy, or party spirit, or worldliness, have eaten Votes: 0

I don't have time to think about the false controversy, Votes: 0

The enemy of a writer is not controversy but obscurity. Votes: 0

I'm a shocker. I like to create controversy. It's my trademark. Votes: 0

Throughout my political life, I've not been a stranger to controversy. Votes: 0

My career has been riddled with controversy, which I never fully understand. Votes: 0

Embrace controversy. It gives you a platform. It nudges you to clarity. Votes: 0

History is the arbiter of controversy, the monarch of all she surveys. Votes: 0

I stay as far away from politics as possible, or any controversy. Votes: 0

The media will make a controversy out of anything, if they can. Votes: 0

I am a shocker. I like to create controversy. It's my trademark. Votes: 0

The curse of modern times is, that almost everything does create controversy. Votes: 0

There is no controversy within science over the core proposition of evolutionary theory Votes: 0

There is no controversy within science over the core proposition of evolutionary theory. Votes: 0

In general, a little controversy isn't harmful: if anything, it gets people interested. Votes: 0

It can't hurt, publicity is publicity, controversy and all that, it's all good. Votes: 0

No great advance has been made in science, politics, or religion without controversy. Votes: 0

The truth is libraries are raucous clubhouses for free speech, controversy and community. Votes: 0

I like controversy. The more controversial it gets, the more interesting it is. Votes: 0

It's like you came to a controversy and a ball game breaks out. Votes: 0

Anybody can decide a question if only a single principle is in controversy. Votes: 0

There's always going to be controversy when you write the way I write. Votes: 0

My whole life is controversy. What can I do? I'm like Britney Spears! Votes: 0

I have the New York Daily News to thank for the jeans controversy. Votes: 0

I'm starting to think that my level of intrigue outweighs my fear of controversy. Votes: 0

Oh my God, I don't think you can say anyone looks forward to controversy. Votes: 0

... the Athenian lawmaker Solon decreed it a crime for any citizen to shrink from controversy. Votes: 0

The long and distressing controversy over capital punishment is very unfair to anyone meditating murder. Votes: 0

Out of anger comes controversy, out of controversy comes conversation, out of conversation comes action. Votes: 0

I love it when my books cause controversy, when people argue violently about the ending. Votes: 0

I cannot, whilst President of the United States, descend to enter into a newspaper controversy. Votes: 0

Change is scientific; progress is ethical; change is indubitable, whereas progress is a matter of controversy. Votes: 0

Wit has its place in debate; in controversy it is a legitimate weapon, offensive and defensive. Votes: 0

The angriest person in a controversy is the one most liable to be in the wrong. Votes: 0

The line, often adopted by strong men in controversy, of justifying the means by the end. Votes: 0

I've always tried to stay out of the fray and not be an object of controversy. Votes: 0

There's no controversy in my way. There's nobody telling me to rap like this or anything. Votes: 0

My scare value is high. My arena is controversy. My tough front is my biggest asset. Votes: 0

It is past all controversy that what costs dearest is, and ought to be, most valued. Votes: 0

I think it's best to keep the controversy on the pages and not in our relationships. Votes: 0

An entertainer should in his public performance keep himself out of any controversy, political or otherwise. Votes: 0

The abortion controversy is important for what it says about our stance toward procreation and children altogether. Votes: 0

No sane person should believe that something is subjective merely because it cannot be settled beyond controversy. Votes: 0

American journalists and politicians made a perfect spectacle of themselves in discussing the Abu Ghraib prison controversy. Votes: 0

The teenager seems to have replaced the Communist as the appropriate target for public controversy and foreboding. Votes: 0

Men treat God's sovereignty as a theme for controversy, but in Scripture it is matter for worship. Votes: 0

Impartial - unable to perceive any promise of personal advantage from espousing either side of a controversy. Votes: 0

There's a lot of controversy online, some people say i'm a genius and other say i'm hugely talented. Votes: 0

I cannot shy away from controversy. I don't know if it's my Irish blood, but I love it. Votes: 0

As you find your soul-reservoir of peace, less and less controversy will be able to afflict your life. Votes: 0

What you leave at your death, let it be without controversy, else the lawyers will be your heirs. Votes: 0

A man does not measure its height in moments of comfort, but in terms of change and controversy Votes: 0

The controversy was that Chad Dawson thought he was in an MMA fight and not a boxing match. Votes: 0

I have never in my career embarked on a journey towards controversy. I have never deliberately set a flame. Votes: 0

There was no real controversy with All In The Family. That came from the people on the business end. Votes: 0

Economics has many substantive areas of knowledge where there is agreement, but also contains areas of controversy. That's inescapable. Votes: 0

I don't seek controversy. I don't seek to antagonize. Sometimes it happens, but I'm not there to argue politics. Votes: 0

Promises controversy on a scale not seen since Samuel Huntington's Clash of Civilizations sought to reframe a new world order. Votes: 0

When men understand what each other mean, they see, for the most part, that controversy is either superfluous or hopeless Votes: 0

Avoid all controversy in preaching, talking, or writing; preach nothing down but the devil, and nothing up but Jesus Christ. Votes: 0

In politics, the reaction to a controversy is very often more enlightening and important than the details of the allegations themselves. Votes: 0

There is in fact a controversy over Darwin's theory. Clearly both theories have religious implications. But this is not about God. Votes: 0

What's being pushed is to have Darwinism critiqued, to teach there's a controversy. Intelligent design itself does not have any content. Votes: 0

My stress on the truth in sexual stereotypes and on the biologic basis of sex differences is sure to cause controversy. Votes: 0

My personality and nothing from my past would have ever predicted that I would be at the center of a controversy. Votes: 0

A person in the business of defending criminal cases is going to live in controversy all of his or her life. Votes: 0

Whether thats positive or not, people are talking about the Old Vic Theater again with passion and commitment and controversy and debate. Votes: 0

If all I get is a little controversy for speaking the truth, if I did less, I would not be worth living. Votes: 0

Fox News's coverage of 9/11 and the war in Iraq improved its ratings, demonstrated its influence, and intensified the controversy over its practices. Votes: 0

Whether that's positive or not, people are talking about the Old Vic Theater again with passion and commitment and controversy and debate. Votes: 0

From the outset, however, this whole controversy has been plagued by tacit assumptions, very often of a philosophical rather than a physical character... Votes: 0

A pure heart won't get us out of conflict and controversy. It may well be the very thing that gets us into it. Votes: 0

I discovered something amazing, which has caused a lot of controversy - the fountain of youth. I have to keep it a secret! Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The recent medical controversy over whether vaccinations cause autism reveals a habit of human cognition"”thinking anecdotally comes naturally, whereas thinking scientifically does not. Votes: 0

The very fact that doctrine is hewn from bitter controversy and tested through time is sufficient reason to make them a focus of theology. Votes: 0

Embrace controversy. It gives you a platform. It is a teacher, a clarifier, and your friend, especially if you are trying to make change. Votes: 0

The very purpose of a bill of rights is to withdraw certain subjects from...political controversy, to place them beyond the reach of majorities. Votes: 0

It is not he who gains the exact point in dispute who scores most in controversy - but he who has shown the better temper. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I feel like great TED Talks are ones that are a little bit subject to interpretation, that do provoke further conversation - and potentially controversy. Votes: 0

The e-mails are mainly about a controversy over a particular data set and the ways a particular small group of scientists have displayed that dataset. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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) Votes: 0

If it's controversy out there, or if it's some false stories out there, I want to clear it up. That's just what I'm all about. Votes: 0

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... Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

For any new technology there is always controversy and there always some fear associated with it. I think that's just the price of being first sometimes. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Attacks on alternative religious groups are attempts to psychologize - to medicalize - a controversy that, on deeper examination, is clearly a controversy over ideology and lifestyle. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

One of the greatest values of controversy is its revealing nature. The real issues at stake come into the open and have the possibility of being reconciled. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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 Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

There can be no democracy without truth. There can be no truth without controversy, there can be no change without freedom. Without freedom there can be no progress. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I think controversy has this allusion of being controversial but it's totally not, which is why I'm trying to get away from it because it's just easy and automatic. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Apparent contradictions between religion and science often have been the basis of bitter controversy. Such differences are to be expected as long as human understanding remains provisional and fragmentary. Votes: 0

Though I'm not the first king of controversy, I am the worst thing since Elvis Presley. To do black music so selfishly, and use it to get myself wealthy. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

It also seems beyond controversy that moral responsibilities are greater to the extent that people "have the resources, the training, the facilities and opportunities to speak and act effectively." Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I'm not one of your knockabout, knuckle-scarred, Internet-controversy-courting book critics. Occasionally I stumble into controversy accidentally, but not because I enjoy it. It's probably just because I'm a weird person. Votes: 0

Economy is the first and great article (economy such as I understand it) in my financial creed. The controversy between direct and indirect taxation holds a minor, though important place. Votes: 0

A man must be a born fool who voluntarily engages in controversy with Mr. Adams on a question of fact. I doubt whether he was ever mistaken in his life. Votes: 0

Beneath the surface of our daily life, in the personal history of many of us, there runs a continuous controversy between an Ego that affirms and an Ego that denies. Votes: 0

Takes birth in me,also, dies in debris.I am a Potpourri.A mix of dead petals,effusing divine fragrance.Walking on the journey,of controversy.I am a Potpourri. Votes: 0

For both parties in a controversy, the most disagreeable way of retaliating is to be vexed and silent; for the aggressor usually regards the silence as a sign of contempt. Votes: 0

We turn now over the debate of the proposed Islamic center and mosque near Ground Zero....The controversy has raised profound questions about religious tolerance and prejudice in the United States. Votes: 0

... religious controversy does only harm. It destroys humble inquiry after truth, and throws all the energies into an attempt to prove ourselves right-a spirit in which no man gets at truth. Votes: 0

For what I wrote that started this whole controversy, I deserved to be criticized, and I felt bad about writing it. I felt bad mainly as a writer and a thinker. Votes: 0

Part of the issue around communal land, which became a matter of controversy, is that we are saying that this land must go back to communities. Not chiefs and traditional leaders. Votes: 0

Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about his taste, nor condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion. Votes: 0

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? Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

During the flames of controversy, opinions, mass disputes, conflict, and world news, sometimes the most precious, refreshing, peaceful words to hear amidst all the chaos are simply and humbly 'I don't know. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Evolution is a large political controversy as to what should be taught in the schools. But there is no scientific controversy that we evolved when we talk about evidence from fossils and DNA. Votes: 0

The recent controversy over the portrayal of Ken Taylor and his embassy staff in the movie 'Argo' brought home to me the great responsibility we writers have when telling stories that involve real people. Votes: 0

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." Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0