Controversy Quotes: top 100 famous quotes about Controversy

Controversy Quotes & Sayings

Happy to read and share the best inspirational Controversy quotes, sayings and quotations on Wise Famous Quotes.

It is the doom of the Christian church to be always distracted with controversy. John Quincy Adams — Paul C. Nagel

Give Ireland back to the Irish, don't make them have to take it away. — Paul McCartney

I know how people are. We fixate on controversy and all that. — Tracy Morgan

Taxonomy is described sometimes as a science and sometimes as an art, but really it's a battleground. — Bill Bryson

Controversy is always a beautiful thing. I love controversy and I try to fan it as much as I can without having my husband's head pop off! — Jada Pinkett Smith

Controversy is what mediocre people start because they can't communicate anything meaningful. — G. Willow Wilson

I don't have time to think about the false controversy, — Susan Rice

It must also be noted that until the present time this malady, like religious controversy, has been wholly confined to the continent of Europe. — Voltaire

I have discovered with advancing years that few things are entirely black or white, but more often different shades of grey. — Jeffrey Archer

The media will make a controversy out of anything, if they can. — Tim Tebow

I have never in my career embarked on a journey towards controversy. I have never deliberately set a flame. — Amanda Palmer

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

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

Controversy for the sake of controversy is sin. Controversy for the sake of truth is a divine command. — Walter Martin

Controversial' as we all know, is often a euphemism for 'interesting and intelligent. — Kevin Smith

Can one consider controversy without falling into it? — Elizabeth Janeway

Some concepts are so incredibly risky they take an honest fool to try to articulate them. — Criss Jami

The line, often adopted by strong men in controversy, of justifying the means by the end. — St. Jerome

I cannot, whilst President of the United States, descend to enter into a newspaper controversy. — James K. Polk

Fox News's coverage of 9/11 and the war in Iraq improved its ratings, demonstrated its influence, and intensified the controversy over its practices. — Jill Lepore

Gans and Savigny controversy; he took Savigny, he took Gans, read — Victor Hugo

The greater the controversy, the more you need manners. — Judith Martin

Men treat God's sovereignty as a theme for controversy, but in Scripture it is matter for worship. — J.I. Packer

In politics, the reaction to a controversy is very often more enlightening and important than the details of the allegations themselves. — Tammy Bruce

My ding-a-ling, my ding-a-ling, won't you play with my ding-a-ling. — Chuck Berry

The true measure of a man is not how he behaves in moments of comfort and convenience but how he stands at times of controversy and challenges. — Martin Luther King Jr.

I don't like controversy. — Sammy Sosa

All real lives hold controversy, trials, mistakes, and regrets. What matters is what you do next. — Katherine Reay

The controversy was that Chad Dawson thought he was in an MMA fight and not a boxing match. — Bernard Hopkins

But we have to pass the bill so you can find out what is in it, away from the fog of the controversy. — Nancy Pelosi

To the extreme I rock a mike like a vandal. — Vanilla Ice

I don't shy from controversy. I'm telling stories, and I'll tell whatever story seems like it wants to be told. — Lauren Myracle

Controversy equalizes fools and wise men in the same way - and the fools know it. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

I need a victim and no offense Yuki, but your carrot sticks are lacking in controversy. — E.J. Stevens

Political success is often dependent on the ability to be heard above the din of controversy and debate and to set a course with one's own compass. — Madeleine M. Kunin

This whole controversy about global warming or even evolution - politicians just don't want to take the time to educate themselves. — Rush D. Holt Jr.

The angriest person in a controversy is the one most liable to be in the wrong. — John Tillotson

looking for fights - encouraging and even creating controversy thinking that God wills it - is pathological. — Peter Enns

The love of conflict is most evident when opposing forces join sides to defeat the peacemaker. — Criss Jami

Satan's survival-of-the-fittest system appears to work- in the short run. But the great controversy is about the long run. — Jack Provonsha

Avoid all controversy in preaching, talking, or writing; preach nothing down but the devil, and nothing up but Jesus Christ. — John Berridge

It is past all controversy that what costs dearest is, and ought to be, most valued. — Miguel De Cervantes

There's no controversy in my way. There's nobody telling me to rap like this or anything. — Jayceon Terrell Taylor

Wit has its place in debate; in controversy it is a legitimate weapon, offensive and defensive. — Theodore Parker

But controversy is a teacher. — Gloria Steinem

My intention ... isn't to create controversy. — Brett Favre

Many a time, we let go of some really good ideas just because we feel they are too controversial. — Abhishek Ratna

There is in fact a controversy over Darwin's theory. Clearly both theories have religious implications. But this is not about God. — Richard Thompson

No great advance has been made in science, politics, or religion without controversy. — Lyman Beecher

The abortion controversy is important for what it says about our stance toward procreation and children altogether. — Leon Kass

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

It can't hurt, publicity is publicity, controversy and all that, it's all good. — Keith David

I like controversy. The more controversial it gets, the more interesting it is. — Marco Brambilla

Heat sells better than light. — Jen Lawrence

You tell me over and over and over again, my friend, you don't believe we're on the eve of destruction. — Barry McGuire

Suicide is the only way out. — Ozzy Osbourne

[On generating controversy] Heat sells better than light. — Jen Lawrence

How could an argument soothe or settle a controversy when every word is a nest for a bird of doubt? (meaning of words as inferences) — Edmond Jabes

Washington DC is happiest when in indignation overdrive. — George F. Will

I have the New York Daily News to thank for the jeans controversy. — Calvin Klein

It is not he who gains the exact point in dispute who scores most in controversy - but he who has shown the better temper. — Samuel Butler

When both sides of a controversy revel in the defeat and humiliation of the other side, in fact they are on the same side: the side of war. — Charles Eisenstein

The purpose of a chronicler of moods and deeds does not require him to express his personal views upon the grave controversy above given. — Thomas Hardy

We're a divided country on sexual issues. That's why every news cycle brings more controversy. — Russell D. Moore

Controversy chases the Russian writer Vladimir Sorokin the way a dog chases a stick. — Ken Kalfus

I am a shocker. I like to create controversy. It's my trademark. — Brenda Fassie

Science moves fastest when there's plenty of debate and controversy. — Lee Smolin

There's always going to be controversy when you write the way I write. — Ben Mezrich

My scare value is high. My arena is controversy. My tough front is my biggest asset. — Roy Cohn

Sometimes its controversy, but we all have our choices that we make. — Solomon Burke

My books have all generated controversy. — Helen Fielding

Change is scientific; progress is ethical; change is indubitable, whereas progress is a matter of controversy. — Bertrand Russell

I cannot shy away from controversy. I don't know if it's my Irish blood, but I love it. — Gina McCarthy

The enemy of a writer is not controversy but obscurity. — William P. Young

Vanz can't dance, but he'll steal your money. — John Fogerty

I'm never surprised by controversies that are whipped up in Washington. — Barack Obama

I don't do things for the response or for the controversy. I just live my life. — Rihanna

An entertainer should in his public performance keep himself out of any controversy, political or otherwise. — Kate Smith

Richard Nixon coveted, to the point of obsession, a controversy-free, stage-managed coronation. — David Pietrusza

It is experience which teaches, not controversy based on supposed logic and assumptions of what is likely to be true. — Idries Shah

How could anything non-controversial be of intellectual interest to grown-ups? — Edward Abbey

Impartial - unable to perceive any promise of personal advantage from espousing either side of a controversy. — Ambrose Bierce

The unknowable creates the greatest controversies. — Mason Cooley

If you believe that I'm a cop killer, you believe David Bowie is an astronaut. — Ice-T

In the field of controversy I always pity the moderate party, who stand on the open middle ground exposed to the fire of both sides. — Edward Gibbon

There is no controversy within science over the core proposition of evolutionary theory. — Kenneth R. Miller

Controversy, though always an evil in itself, is sometimes a necessary evil. — Richard Whately

There was no real controversy with All In The Family. That came from the people on the business end. — Norman Lear

If all I get is a little controversy for speaking the truth, if I did less, I would not be worth living. — Andrew Young

The teenager seems to have replaced the Communist as the appropriate target for public controversy and foreboding. — Edgar Friedenberg

Global warming is controversial, of course, but the controversy is mainly over whether human activity is driving it. — Michio Kaku

Throughout my political life, I've not been a stranger to controversy. — David Blunkett

Make a start, even if you have a controversial idea! — Abhishek Ratna

Economics has many substantive areas of knowledge where there is agreement, but also contains areas of controversy. That's inescapable. — Ben Bernanke

As you find your soul-reservoir of peace, less and less controversy will be able to afflict your life. — Paramahansa Yogananda

A rebel adult often seems like a glorious savior, whereas a rebel child often seems like a little devil. — Criss Jami

Embrace controversy. It gives you a platform. It nudges you to clarity. — Gloria Feldt

If a man isn't willing to take some risk for his opinions, either his opinions are no good or he's no good — Ezra Pound

American journalists and politicians made a perfect spectacle of themselves in discussing the Abu Ghraib prison controversy. — Tony Snow

People say graffiti is ugly, irresponsible and childish ... but that's only if it's done properly. — Banksy