Controversy Quotes

293 quotes by 255 authors

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… — Julian Assange
If journalism is good, it is controversial, by its nature. — Julian Assange
We are too much accustomed to attribute to a single cause that which is the product of several, and the majority of our controversies come… — Marcus Aurelius
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… — Amitabh Bachchan
Impartial - unable to perceive any promise of personal advantage from espousing either side of a controversy. — Ambrose Bierce
It is not he who gains the exact point in dispute who scores most in controversy - but he who has shown the better temper. — Samuel Butler
The United States needs to be not so much loved as it needs to be respected. Sometimes, that requires us to take actions that generate… — Dick Cheney
I've always tried to stay out of the fray and not be an object of controversy. — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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… — Arthur Tappan Pierson
He has inhibited discussion by designating admonition as the method of dealing with a heretic- and the first method, too, because he is not a… — Tertullian
I think that if anything can be proved by natural theology, it is that slavery is morally wrong. God gave man a mouth to receive… — Abraham Lincoln
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… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Change is scientific; progress is ethical; change is indubitable, whereas progress is a matter of controversy. — Bertrand Russell
I don't create controversies. They're there long before I open my mouth. I just bring them to your attention. — Charles Barkley
Some people want to have controversy between the races. — Dennis Rodman
The truth is libraries are raucous clubhouses for free speech, controversy and community. — Paula Poundstone
I discovered something amazing, which has caused a lot of controversy - the fountain of youth. I have to keep it a secret! — David Copperfield
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… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
No great advance has ever been made in science, politics, or religion, without controversy. — Lyman Beecher
The very purpose of a Bill of Rights was to withdraw certain subjects from the vicissitudes of political controversy. One's right to life, liberty and… — Robert H. Jackson

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