Controversial Quotes · Page 3

If journalism is good, it is controversial, by its nature.

— Julian Assange

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

— Madonna Ciccone

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

— S.F. Chandler

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

— Monica

My "home" is a controversial topic. I don't exactly have one. I live all over the world.

— Lady Gaga

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

— Rosie Perez

I know Reverend Jesse Jackson is controversial, and not a popular figure with many, but he hired me in 1984. He gave…

— Donna Brazile

That's the heart of it: My shows were not that controversial with the American people. They were controversial with the people who…

— Norman Lear

If art is singular expression, then by nature, the best art is controversial. But when art stirs debate for reasons besides its…

— John Ridley

The proposal that men and women should be treated equally under the law is hardly a controversial concept.

— Carolyn Maloney

The idea that feminism is a 'battle of the sexes' about blaming all men and setting up a 'gender war' is a…

— Laura Bates

If everyone thinks you're doing the right thing, then everyone would be doing it. Have a controversial strategy.

— Scott McNealy

It is a virtual reflex for governments to plead security concerns when they undertake any controversial action, often as a pretext for…

— Noam Chomsky

I've always been controversial because I offer new ideas. For me to be controversial, I think this is positive.

— Avigdor Lieberman

For me it's more important that I outline all the facets of a controversial issue and let the reader make up his…

— Jodi Picoult

What matters is not what you photograph, but why and how you photograph it. Even the most controversial subject, if depicted by…

— Andreas Feininger

My own education has been entirely controversial: that is why I know what I am writing about; and appear eccentric to dogmatically…

— George Bernard Shaw

The most controversial issues of the twenty-first century will pertain to the ends and means of modifying human behavior and who shall…

— John Goodlad

People often ask me why I persisted in doing research on a subject that was so controversial. I frequently respond by telling…

— Stanley B. Prusiner

The book Manufacturing Consent, which I co-authored with Edward Herman, begins with a description of the structure and institutional setting of the…

— Noam Chomsky

I think everyone should be with who they love. I don't want to be controversial or stir up a bunch of trouble…

— Dolly Parton

All ideas having even the slightest redeeming social importance - unorthodox ideas, controversial ideas, even ideas hateful to the prevailing climate of…

— William J. Brennan

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

— Virginia Woolf

As Stephen Jay Gould pointed out in Time, in no other Western country is the teaching of Evolution regarded as controversial. Throughout…

— Katha Pollitt

What must it be like to live in Rush Limbaughs world? A world where when anyone other than conservative, white men attempts…

— Nancy Giles

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

If men were equally at risk from this condition - if they knew their bellies might swell as if they were suffering…

— Barbara Ehrenreich

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

In the early 1970s, the northern hemisphere appeared to have been cooling at an alarming rate. There was frequent talk of a…

— Stephen Schneider

It is clear that several countries, in the Balkans for example, need to be considered countries of safe origin. But others like,…

— Paolo Gentiloni

Give the benefit of the doubt to your opponents if they walk back a controversial statement.

— Dan Crenshaw

But, you know, sex is controversial, it just is and it always will be.

— Liam Neeson

I always put in one controversial item. It makes people talk.

— Dorothy Draper

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

— Slick Rick

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

— Yony Leyser

I am really the most controversial artist in the world.

— Thomas Kinkade

I love pop, but with an edge so that's what I'd say my music is. And quite controversial.

— Sarah Harding

'Requiem' has been controversial because people don't feel I gave it closure.

— Lauren Oliver