Controversy Quotes

293 Controversy quotes by 247 unique authors

You got to hidey-hide, you got to jump and run again. You got to hide-hidey-hide, the old man is down the road. — John Fogerty
You tell me over and over and over again, my friend, you don't believe we're on the eve of destruction. — Barry McGuire
I have thoroughly gone through the subject of the Incarnation; and if it served you, could at any time give you the history from the… — Edward Irving
You know, this is - one can imagine how life would be different if one body of Congress was controlled by the other party, there… — Michael Isikoff
Darwin's book, On the Origin of Species, was published in 1859. It is perhaps the most influential book that has ever been published, because it… — Henry Lipson
I wish to preface my reflections by saying that I am conducting this prayer service and am speaking to you now with great reluctance. I… — Thomas J. Paprocki
LEAD, n. A heavy blue-gray metal much used ... as a counterpoise to an argument of such weight that it turns the scale of debate… — Ambrose Bierce
'Extinction' issue. Save the species for whom??? Humans' convenience, of course! Individuals of the species are snatched from their homes/family/habitat/held in captivity/forced to mate at… — Adela Popescu
What is disgraceful and outrageous is that 18,000 children die of hunger every day, every one of them a preventable death. That's what the controversy… — John Powell
Evolution is a large political controversy as to what should be taught in the schools. But there is no scientific controversy that we evolved when… — Carl Zimmer
As anchorman of the CBS Evening News, I signed off my nightly broadcasts for nearly two decades with a simple statement: "And that's the way… — Walter Cronkite
Most centrist Democrats... try to distance themselves from controversies that recall the 1960s. There are journalistic centrists as well, who avoid hard truths for the… — Tom Hayden
This fear of criticism displayed by the advocates of freedom of criticism cannot be attributed solely to craftiness. No, the majority of the Economists look… — Vladimir Lenin
An imbecile habit has arisen in modern controversy of saying that such and such a creed can be held in one age but cannot be… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Economy is the first and great article (economy such as I understand it) in my financial creed. The controversy between direct and indirect taxation holds… — William E. Gladstone
The left is entering a new phase of ideological agitation no longer trying to win the debate but stopping debate altogether, banishing from public discourse… — Charles Krauthammer
It is a fair summary of history to say that the safeguards of liberty have been forged in controversies involving not very nice people. — Felix Frankfurter
For any new technology there is always controversy and there always some fear associated with it. I think that's just the price of being first… — Hugh Grant
I'm not one of your knockabout, knuckle-scarred, Internet-controversy-courting book critics. Occasionally I stumble into controversy accidentally, but not because I enjoy it. It's probably just… — Lev Grossman
People like controversy because that's what sells. — Miley Cyrus
I'm not an activist; I don't look for controversy. I'm not a political person, but I'm a person with compassion. I care passionately about equal… — Ellen DeGeneres
Most controversies would soon be ended, if those engaged in them would first accurately define their terms, and then adhere to their definitions. — Tryon Edwards
My intention... isn't to create controversy. — Brett Favre
David Mamet we all know is a great screenplay writer and playwright and a great director. If you like him, you like him. If you… — Tom Hardy
I love it when my books cause controversy, when people argue violently about the ending. — Joanne Harris

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