Controversial Quotes

I have this idiot name tag which says 'controversial.'

— Maurice Sendak

I was always controversial, being gay, so nothing was more controversial than that.

— Martina Navratilova

I never thought of myself as a particularly controversial figure.

— Michael Ball

“At the time, though, vaccination was controversial. Many were opposed.”

— Jennifer Wright

Everything controversial is good for boxing.

— Chris Eubank Sr

“When you fear nothing, you have nothing to fear”

— S.F. Chandler

I think art should be controversial. I think it should make people think.

— Madonna Ciccone

I lost to Lennox Lewis in a very controversial decision.

— Shannon Briggs

I think that in the blogosphere, the idea is to have the most controversial stuff up.

— Monica

I was very willing to take on controversial roles that people didn't really want to look at.

— Rosie Perez

Senator Helms might very well do that. I would point out to him that we in the art world are not necessarily…

— Jane Alexander

I'm really happy I was kicked out of CalArts (for a controversial art piece I made).

— Yony Leyser

It takes some courage to write fiction about politically controversial topics. The dread is you'll be labeled a political writer.

— Barbara Kingsolver

I kicked down doors to show that Hiphop has matured. And it may be a little controversial.

— Slick Rick

You know what should be banned? Stuff that's whack. The world is controversial. The world is classist. The world is racist.

— Kanye West

No politician can expect to escape criticism for a controversial decision and we have to be robust in justifying what we do.

— Dominic Grieve

I always thought, 'I could go the route of saying some controversial things and have it explode, just do it like that.…

— Ariel Pink

I'm bi everything; sexual, coastal, political, controversial. I think if you find your comfortable sexual preference then that's excellent. Everybody knows that…

— Jessicka

When The Simpsons came around, there really was nothing else like it on TV. It's hard to imagine, but when Fox first…

— Matt Groening

I earnestly urge all our people to unite under the true banner of the Master, to teach the gospel of Jesus Christ…

— Harold B. Lee

There's a - kind of an undercurrent of the stories we read during the campaign of, [Michael Flynn] was a guy we…

— John Heilemann

Would the potential attraction to Mormonism by simply having a Mormon in the White House threaten traditional Christianity by leading more Americans…

— Rick Santorum

There are some current 'theories' that, when divested of begged questions, reduce to the non-controversial statement, 'Here are some facts and there…

— Harold Jeffreys

There are many controversial topics out there - abortion, nuclear weapons, the 2nd Amendment, guns, whatever, the war in Iraq. You're going…

— Daryl Davis

Bad news drives out good news. The irrational is more controversial than the rational. Concurrence can no longer compete with dissent. One…

— Spiro T. Agnew

I believe the medium of film is one of the most powerful tools in the modern era to create positive social change.…

— Sam Branson

You believe in equality for women and men. And that means that, not only do you believe in it kind of in…

— John Legend

I would say the special experience of American wartime policy in the last 40 years, from Vietnam on, is that the war…

— Henry A. Kissinger

“At any rate, when a subject is highly controversial – and any question about sex is that – one cannot hope to…

— Virginia Woolf

Media economics now are so dependent on people saying controversial things and an entire mini-news cycle springing up around this thing that…

— Andi Zeisler

You're going to die soon enough anyway; even if it's a hundred years from now, that's still the blink of a cosmic…

— Jesse Bering

I opened with Edward Kienholz's The Beanery, and that's such a controversial piece that I think that brought people right away. It…

— Virginia Dwan

“Hip-hop has always been controversial, and for good reason. When you watch a children's show and they've got a muppet rapping about…

— Jay-Z

I'm controversial. My friends either dislike me or hate me

— Oscar Levant

Let us welcome controversial books and controversial authors.

— Anonymous

In the old days, 'controversial' in a relationship meant same-sex or mixed races.

— Sam Taylor-Johnson

Requiem has been controversial because people dont feel I gave it closure.

— Lauren Oliver

I may be controversial, but my allegiance is to people outside the Beltway.

— Howard Dean

If you've got a big mouth and you're controversial, you're going to get attention.

— Simon Cowell

I don't mind being controversial. Even Jesus wasn't loved in his day.

— Elvis Presley