Controversial Quote by Noam Chomsky

If you do not specify and confront real issues, what you say will surely obscure them. If you do not embody controversy, what you…

— C. Wright Mills

“The reality is that being controversial generates attention for a little while, but it’s usually not good for your career in the long term.”

— Alexandra Levit

It is pretty hard to find the right result to a controversial issue.

— Max Baucus

The notion of political correctness has ignited controversy across the land. And although the movement arises from the laudable desire to sweep away the…

— George H. W. Bush

I think controversy is an interesting thing in that it usually goes hand in hand with starting conversations that surround taboo or under-discussed topics…

— Alex Sharp

I think it is very difficult today to have a reasoned public discourse on any controversial subject. Certainly, election years present a complicating factor.

— John Poindexter

Problems become privatized and removed from larger social issues. This is one task, connecting the personal problems to larger social issues that progressive leftist…

— Henry Giroux

What I've found is that there is a tremendous interest in these issues, across the political spectrum, sort of left-right terms we used to…

— Anonymous

I think it is important for me to speak out on social issues. Sometimes people will agree with me. Sometimes people will disagree with…

— Charles Barkley

People have an interest in the controversial.

— John F. Kennedy Jr

The matters most debated in a deliberative body tend to be the minor ones where everybody understands the issues.

— C. Northcote Parkinson

In general, a little controversy isn't harmful: if anything, it gets people interested.

— Charles Stross