Controversy Quotes

293 Controversy quotes by 247 unique authors

Controversy is what mediocre people start because they can't communicate anything meaningful. — G. Willow Wilson
PRE-ADAMITE, n. One of an experimental and apparently unsatisfactory race of antedated Creation. . . . Little its known of them beyond the fact that… — Ambrose Bierce
Should a priest reject relativity because it contains no authoritative exposition on the doctrine of the Trinity? Once you realize that the Bible does not… — Georges Lemaitre
I enjoy punk, the attitude as well as the music, but I don't feel like I have to be a carbon copy of it and… — Hayley Williams
I don't get afraid in talking about subject matter that may spark controversy, and I'm not afraid to not be liked. I think that sometimes… — Jada Pinkett Smith
We must all be profoundly grateful for the magnificent achievements of our forbearers in this century. Yet perhaps in the daily press of events, in… — William J. Clinton
I regret exceedingly that the disputes between the protestants and Roman Catholics should be carried to the serious alarming height mentioned in your letters. Religious… — George Washington
Our errors and our controversies, in the sphere of morality, arise sometimes from looking on men as though they could be altogether bad, or altogether… — Luc de Clapiers
First, I hate all theological controversy: it is wearing to the temper, and is I believe (at all events when viva voce) worse than useless. — Lewis Carroll
... religious controversy does only harm. It destroys humble inquiry after truth, and throws all the energies into an attempt to prove ourselves right-a spirit… — Frederick William Robertson
My books have all generated controversy. — Helen Fielding
Anybody can decide a question if only a single principle is in controversy. — Felix Frankfurter
The long and distressing controversy over capital punishment is very unfair to anyone meditating murder. — Geoffrey Fisher
Even though Rush is not me and the situations were very different, I think, in the Rush Limbaugh thing, ESPN was criticized for not acting,… — Gregg Easterbrook
I am used to controversies. — Sharad Pawar
To me the notion that Palestinians are actually Jews is, I think, quite revelatory and very radical and a possible bridge that has been ignored,… — Lawrence Wright
There's always going to be controversy when you write the way I write. — Ben Mezrich
I cannot shy away from controversy. I don't know if it's my Irish blood, but I love it. — Gina McCarthy
Even if there's controversy, I'm going to make the decision, and people are going to be happy in one instance and unhappy in the next.… — Gina McCarthy
Obviously, I have been a pro-choice candidate for my entire political career, and obviously there is controversy always surrounding this issue. — Claire McCaskill
Wikipedia is just an incredible thing. It is fact-encirclingly huge, and it is idiosyncratic, careful, messy, funny, shocking and full of simmering controversies - and… — Nicholson Baker
I am a shocker. I like to create controversy. It's my trademark. — Brenda Fassie
In politics, the reaction to a controversy is very often more enlightening and important than the details of the allegations themselves. — Tammy Bruce
Precisely because intelligent design does not turn the study of biological origins into a Bible-science controversy, intelligent design is a position around which Christians of… — William A. Dembski
We had a big controversy in the United States when there was a limited number of dialysis machines. In Seattle, they appointed what they called… — Ezekiel Emanuel

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