Controversial Quotes
Controversial Quote of the day
It's better to be controversial for the right reasons, than to be popular for the wrong reasons.
I am continually fascinated at the difficulty intelligent people have in distinguishing what is controversial from what is merely offensive.
No great advance has ever been made in science, politics, or religion, without controversy.
The issue of human rights is one of the most fundamental human issues and also one of the most sensitive and controversial.
If an individual wants to be a leader and isn't controversial, that means he never stood for anything.
It's funny how something so normal and mundane that you see every day-your body-can be controversial. The shock value is intense. It's like carrying an art piece around with you all the time.
Schools provide safe spaces to talk about controversial issues, and literature presents characters portraying human experience in all its richness and contradictoriness.
If I could give advice to anyone, it would be that sometimes the best way you can fight a problem - and this is going to be a little bit controversial - is to not address it.
We don't have the freedom of speech to talk about the weather. We have the first amendment so we can say some very controversial things.
I've never intended to be controversial but it's very easy to be controversial in pop music because nobody ever is.
It is a virtual reflex for governments to plead security concerns when they undertake any controversial action, often as a pretext for something else.
One of the most powerful defences the media can offer for controversial actions is, of course, public interest.
Many times I heard Imam Ahmad saying (when asked to give his opinion) on controversial scholarly issues 'I do not know.'
If everyone thinks you're doing the right thing, then everyone would be doing it. Have a controversial strategy.
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 American people.
I'm a far cry from politically correct, because I don't really care what the political views are. I don't care what the people say. I'll say my opinion. That will always make you controversial.
When you become controversial, when you want to promote new ideas, you need to be the face of it and not be scared.
When a picture can't make it on its own, the producers pull in a 'controversial' message - the way a couple whose marriage is falling apart decide to have a baby.
Exposing any subject that is unpleasant or controversial means risking judgment and making some people feel uncomfortable.
My art's not safe, I don't want it to be safe, it's not meant to be safe, its controversial, it takes you into deep areas, it's a journey, its starts off in safe areas but it gets into deep waters.
Free speech is intended to protect the controversial and even outrageous word; and not just comforting platitudes too mundane to need protection.
I really feel that artists or musicians are controversial people. Controversy is part of the nature of art and creativity. If people are not doing that, they're not artists - they're artisans.
Overconsumption is the mother of all environmental problems. For the first time in the history of capitalism, consumption itself has become controversial.
Women are not children. We are not fragile little birds who can't cope with jokes, works of art, or controversial speakers.
I know that I'm freer as a hip-hopper than as an executive. Even as a black man, I enjoy more freedom as a hip-hopper than as a black man. That, s controversial to say, but it's the truth.
Important decisions are risky. They should be controversial. Acclamation means that nobody has done the homework.
I admire Madonna because she always did whatever she felt like doing. She went through some controversial periods when people rejected her, but she kept on reinventing herself.
To be truly positive in the eyes of some, you have to risk appearing negative in the eyes of others.
I think that as I continue to write, my writing I hope will become more controversial and more provocative.
Global warming is controversial, of course, but the controversy is mainly over whether human activity is driving it.
There are people who can talk sensibly about a controversial issue; they're called humorists.
I am not afraid that the book will be controversial, I'm afraid it will not be controversial.
I kicked down doors to show that Hiphop has matured. And it may be a little controversial.
Just because you say something doesn't make it controversial, and it doesn't make you a bad person.
They said it was against the rules to take sides on a controversial issue. I said, 'I wish you had told me that during World War II, when I took sides against Hitler.
From this experience we have learned that in a big party it is important to have the necessary and often controversial discussions on policy issues such as the health system while in opposition.
