No great advance has been made in science, politics, or religion without controversy. — Lyman Beecher Copy Share Image
Controversy is what mediocre people start because they can't communicate anything meaningful. — G. Willow Wilson Copy Share Image
Embrace controversy. It gives you a platform. It nudges you to clarity. — Gloria Feldt Copy Share Image
Sometimes you're more involved in controversy, and at other times, you're disconnected. — Gerard Pique Copy Share Image
The controversy was that Chad Dawson thought he was in an MMA fight and not a boxing match. — Bernard Hopkins Copy Share Image
Controversy, though always an evil in itself, is sometimes a necessary evil. — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
I'm not really interested in courting controversy, but I am interested in exploring issues that other people would deem to be controversial. — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
No secret that for some years - long before my time - Komen was dealing with a controversy regarding Planned Parenthood grants. — Karen Handel Copy Share Image
“Look at the language. If a scientist delivers the simple, unconditional, absolutely certain statements that politicians and journalists want, he is talking… — Daniel Gardner Copy Share Image
Political success is often dependent on the ability to be heard above the din of controversy and debate and to set a… — Madeleine M. Kunin Copy Share Image
There is in fact a controversy over Darwin's theory. Clearly both theories have religious implications. But this is not about God. — Richard Thompson Copy Share Image
From the outset, however, this whole controversy has been plagued by tacit assumptions, very often of a philosophical rather than a physical… — David Bohm Copy Share Image
How could an argument soothe or settle a controversy when every word is a nest for a bird of doubt? (meaning of… — Edmond Jabes Copy Share Image
Change is scientific; progress is ethical; change is indubitable, whereas progress is a matter of controversy. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I don't want to create controversy; I just have an opinion on things, and there is nothing wrong with stating your opinion… — John Travolta Copy Share Image
That is why the Aethenian law makers so decreed it a crime for any citizen to shrink from controversy. I am asking… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
The theory of politics that emerges from the political literature of the pre-Revolutionary years rests on the belief that what lay behind… — Bernard Bailyn Copy Share Image
On YouTube, you know, if you say something, you know, that triggers somebody, it becomes a whole controversy, a whole thing -… — Shane Dawson Copy Share Image
How about this John Kerry controversy? So he's out there in California, tells some kind of joke and it backfires. He's saying… — David Letterman Copy Share Image
Wikipedia is just an incredible thing. It is fact-encirclingly huge, and it is idiosyncratic, careful, messy, funny, shocking and full of simmering… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
Marx set out to resolve the contradictions and to correct the errors in classical political economy. In this he thought he had… — David Harvey Copy Share Image
In my view, a huge portion of WikiLeaks's activities has nothing to do with legitimate newsgathering, informing the public, commenting on important… — James Comey Copy Share Image
... those who have never entered upon scientific pursuits know not a tithe of the poetry by which they are surrounded... Sad,… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
There is no learned man but will confess be hath much profited by reading controversies,--his senses awakened, his judgment sharpened, and the… — John Milton Copy Share Image
This is business: they don't care about your lyrics; The better you sell, the better future for their children. Controversy sells, so… — Cormega Copy Share Image
An imbecile habit has arisen in modern controversy of saying that such and such a creed can be held in one age… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The great controversy is ended. Sin and sinners are no more. The entire universe is clean. One pulse of harmony and gladness… — Ellen G. White Copy Share Image
Psychologists would say that the only two important forms of social learning are imitation and teaching, and they will spend time trying… — Hal Whitehead Copy Share Image
Europe has a set of primary interests, which to us have none, or a very remote relation. Hence she must be engaged… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Placing a time limit on affirmative action would in all likelihood blunt the orchestrated politics of controversy that now bedevils it. And… — Orlando Patterson Copy Share Image
The jury has the right to judge both the law as well as the fact in controversy. — John Jay Copy Share Image
It is past all controversy that what costs dearest is, and ought to be, most valued. — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
Give Ireland back to the Irish, don't make them have to take it away. — Paul McCartney Copy Share Image
If there's something strange in your neighborhood, who you gonna call? Ghost Busters. — Ray Parker, Jr Copy Share Image
Let the world have their opinions. But don't let them have our world. — Sophie Lianne Copy Share Image
To talk only negative aspect of an issue makes you a person of controversy. — DrAnil Kr Sinha Copy Share Image
