Controversy Quotes

293 Controversy quotes by 247 unique authors

There is in fact a controversy over Darwin's theory. Clearly both theories have religious implications. But this is not about God. — Richard Thompson
The very purpose of a bill of rights is to withdraw certain subjects from...political controversy, to place them beyond the reach of majorities. — Robert H. Jackson
Only one thing is certian about coffee.... Wherever it is grown, sold, brewed, and consumed, there will be lively controversy, strong opinions, and good conversation. — Unknown Author
The teenager seems to have replaced the Communist as the appropriate target for public controversy and foreboding. — Edgar Friedenberg
Religious controversies are always productive of more acrimony and irreconcilable hatreds than those which spring from any other cause. — George Washington
Controversy What controversy This is reality. What I see is that no matter if you're a conservative or a liberal or whatever side you stand… — Billie Joe Armstrong
That is why the Aethenian law makers so decreed it a crime for any citizen to shrink from controversy. I am asking your help in… — John F. Kennedy
I would say the special experience of American wartime policy in the last 40 years, from Vietnam on, is that the war itself became controversial… — Henry A. Kissinger
Rediscovering the controversies that occupied early Christianity sharpens our awareness of the major issue in the whole debate, then and now: What is the source… — Elaine Pagels
The organizers first job is to create the issues or problems, and organizations must be based on many issues. The organizer must first rub raw… — Saul Alinsky
I know the pundits and the news media have carried a lot of commentary about cameras in the courtroom, and theres a lot of controversy… — Lance Ito
A pure heart won't get us out of conflict and controversy. It may well be the very thing that gets us into it. — John Hagee
When men understand what each other mean, they see, for the most part, that controversy is either superfluous or hopeless — John Henry Newman
I cannot, whilst President of the United States, descend to enter into a newspaper controversy. — James K. Polk
These are the days when men of all social disciplines and all political faiths seek the comfortable and the accepted; when the man of controversy… — John Kenneth Galbraith
There is no controversy within science over the core proposition of evolutionary theory — Kenneth R. Miller
Sometimes its controversy, but we all have our choices that we make. — Solomon Burke
Jesus' life was a storm of controversy. The apostles, like the prophets before them, could hardly go a day without controversy. Paul said that he… — R C Sproul
A civilization in which there is not a continuous controversy about important issues is on the way to totalitarianism and death — Robert M. Hutchins
That's the heart of it: My shows were not that controversial with the American people. They were controversial with the people who think for the… — Norman Lear
It is pretty hard to find the right result to a controversial issue. — Max Baucus
The recent medical controversy over whether vaccinations cause autism reveals a habit of human cognition—thinking anecdotally comes naturally, whereas thinking scientifically does not. — Michael Shermer
But I hope that by the decision and authority of wise princes that sometime devout and learned men from the churches of other nations and… — Philipp Melanchthon
No sane person should believe that something is subjective merely because it cannot be settled beyond controversy. — Hilary Putnam
Whenever I write anything that sets up controversy its meaning is distorted almost instantly. Even the editorial writers of newspapers seem to be unable to… — H. L. Mencken

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