Controversy Quotes

293 Controversy quotes by 247 unique authors

There have been five great kisses since 1642 B.C. when Saul and Delilah Korn's inadvertent discovery swept across Western civilization. (Before then couples hooked thumbs.)… — William Goldman
The very power of [textbook writers] depends on the fact that they are dealing with a boy: a boy who thinks he is ‘doing’ his… — C.S. Lewis
I don't think playing it safe constitutes a retreat, necessarily. In other words, I don't think if, by playing safe he means we are not… — Rod Serling
The more Lord Maccon considered it, the more he grew to like the idea. Certainly his imagination was full of pictures of what he and… — Gail Carriger
Service is the measure of greatness; it always has been true; it is true today, and it always will be true, that he is greatest… — William Jennings Bryan
Homophobia and the closet are allies. Like an unhealthy co-dependent relationship they need each other to survive. One plays the victim living in fear and… — Anthony Venn-Brown
It's funny that we think of libraries as quiet demure places where we are shushed by dusty, bun-balancing, bespectacled women. The truth is libraries are… — Paula Poundstone
Now let's take up the minorities in our civilisation, shall we? Bigger the population, the more minorities. Don't step on the toes of the dog-lovers,… — Ray Bradbury
In a controversy, the instant we feel anger, we have already ceased striving for truth and have begun striving for ourselves. — Abraham Joshua Heschel
Two thousand years ago, the Holy family had a ramble from Nazareth to Bethlehem - in much the same way as I'm having a ramble… — Steve Coogan
The formation of character in young people is educationally a different task from and a prior task to, the discussion of the great, difficult ethical… — William Bennett
The thing is doing it, that's what it's all about. Not in the results of it. After all what is a risk? It's a risk… — Al Pacino
Culture is the name for what people are interested in, their thoughts, their models, the books they read and the speeches they hear, their table-talk,… — Walter Lippmann
The formation of character in young people is educationally a different task from, and a prior task to, the discussion of the great, difficult, ethical… — William Bennett
I have never in my career embarked on a journey towards controversy. I have never deliberately set a flame. — Amanda Palmer
There can be no democracy without truth. There can be no truth without controversy, there can be no change without freedom. Without freedom there can… — Andrew Young
The greater the controversy, the more you need manners. — Judith Martin
Of all the writers I have read, Vladimir Nabokov has made the biggest impression on me because he, despite living through the 1917 February Revolution,… — Ashwin Sanghi
I never seek controversy or foresee it for my pictures. I take a personal stand, and perhaps because my films are on contemporary subjects, people… — Otto Preminger
The very fact that doctrine is hewn from bitter controversy and tested through time is sufficient reason to make them a focus of theology. — Stanley Hauerwas
Controversy sells books. — Robert Gottlieb
Over the course of my career, I have come to accept that some of my more provocative work courts controversy, and as an artist, I… — Terry Richardson
My mum is West African, from Senegal; my dad is from Grenada. There was a huge controversy about them getting together. — Estelle
Lawsuits are rare and catastrophic experiences for the vast majority of men, and even when the catastrophe ensues, the controversy relates most often not to… — Benjamin Cardozo
I know how people are. We fixate on controversy and all that. — Tracy Morgan

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