Controversy Quotes

I'll get you naked by the end of this song.

— Justin Timberlake

Controversy can be a good thing.

— Seve Ballesteros

I do not enter any controversy.

— Samuel Eto'o

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

— Brett Favre

Ahhh, I love to love you baby, ahhh.

— Donna Summer

To the extreme I rock a mike like a vandal.

— Vanilla Ice

“No controversy, no PR.”

— Tim Fargo

I am used to controversies.

— Sharad Pawar

“No one man can terrorize a whole nation unless we are all his accomplices.”

— Edward R. Murrow

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

— Ken Kalfus

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

— Lee Smolin

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

— Roy Cohn

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

— Lord Acton

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

— Andrej Pejic

The enemy of a writer is not controversy but obscurity.

— William P. Young

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

— Paula Poundstone

Controversies merely speculative are of small importance in themselves, however they may have sometimes heated a disputant, or provoked a faction

— Samuel Johnson

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

— Marc Maron

I don't want to sound disingenuous here - controversy is obviously good for business, especially if your business is satire. And it…

— Garry Trudeau

One of the greatest values of controversy is its revealing nature. The real issues at stake come into the open and have…

— Mary Parker Follett

When both sides of a controversy revel in the defeat and humiliation of the other side, in fact they are on the…

— Charles Eisenstein

He was definitely known as the foremost man killer in the West; however there's controversy about virtually every killing that he was…

— Keith Carradine

“I don’t understand why some marketers insist on using ridiculous jargon that normal people don’t understand - make it simple and watch…

— Stacey Kehoe

The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way. Persecution is used in…

— Bertrand Russell

It is one of the misfortunes of our political system that parties are formed more with reference to controversies that are gone…

— Robert Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury

You know what else that settles then tonight. This hue and cry and controversy that has been spawned by the devil to…

— Paul Crouch

It is unhealthy to live in an environment where every aspect of our culture requires a great sort, where creative talents are…

— Ben Domenech

There have been five great kisses since 1642 B.C...(before then couples hooked thumbs.) And the precise rating of kisses is a terribly…

— William Goldman

In the United States, there's definitely some controversy about birth control in general, and I think we needed to split the debate…

— Melinda Gates

My greatest disappointment in all the projects I worked on during the White House years was the failure of the Equal Rights…

— Rosalynn Carter

A lot was happening, plus there were an enormous number of people in the industry that were going to conventions, so it…

— Todd McFarlane

We had a big controversy in the United States when there was a limited number of dialysis machines. In Seattle, they appointed…

— Ezekiel Emanuel

“It is [Simon] Wessely’s often-unconcealed “derision” directed towards people with ME -- a disease from which people die and which appears on…

— Michael Hanlon

The (capital punishment) controversy passes the anarch by. For him, the linking of death and punishment is absurd. In this respect, he…

— Ernst Junger

I regret exceedingly that the disputes between the protestants and Roman Catholics should be carried to the serious alarming height mentioned in…

— George Washington

If an opinion contrary to your own makes you angry, that is a sign that you are subsciously aware of having no…

— Bertrand Russell

Should a priest reject relativity because it contains no authoritative exposition on the doctrine of the Trinity? Once you realize that the…

— Georges Lemaitre

It is simple to follow the easy and familiar path of personal ambition and private gain. It is more comfortable to sit…

— Daniel Webster

“The thing that strikes me more and more, is the extraordinary viciousness and dishonesty of political controversy in our time. I don’t…

— George Orwell

“Several psychologists (L. Armstrong, 1994; Enns, McNeilly, Corkery, & Gilbert, 1995; Herman, 1992; McFarlane & van der Kolk, 1996; Pope & Brown,…

— Rachel E. Goldsmith