Controversy Quotes
It is not he who gains the exact point in dispute who scores most in controversy - but he who has shown the better temper.
Change is scientific; progress is ethical; change is indubitable, whereas progress is a matter of controversy.
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 should be about.
It is the nature of physics to hear the loudest of mouths over the most comprehensive ones.
Though I'm not the first king of controversy, I am the worst thing since Elvis Presley. To do black music so selfishly, and use it to get myself wealthy.
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 invite all this controversy, just to be punk rock.
Global warming is controversial, of course, but the controversy is mainly over whether human activity is driving it.
If all I get is a little controversy for speaking the truth, if I did less, I would not be worth living.
Michael Jackson was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. It caused quite a controversy, because his nose isn't eligible for another fifteen years.
A man must be a born fool who voluntarily engages in controversy with Mr. Adams on a question of fact. I doubt whether he was ever mistaken in his life.
I had hoped that the current presidential campaign debates might educate the public as to what is really involved in the ongoing controversy over campaign financing.
The abortion controversy is important for what it says about our stance toward procreation and children altogether.
A writer is one who communicates ideas and emotions people want to communicate but aren't quite sure how, or even if, they should communicate them.
At first, they'll only dislike what you say, but the more correct you start sounding the more they'll dislike you.
Doubtless there are times when controversy becomes a necessary evil. But let us remember that it is an evil.
You tell me over and over and over again, my friend, you don't believe we're on the eve of destruction.
I think controversy has this allusion of being controversial but it's totally not, which is why I'm trying to get away from it because it's just easy and automatic.
How about this John Kerry controversy? So he's out there in California, tells some kind of joke and it backfires. He's saying he botched the joke. ... This guy can lose elections he's not even in.
A person in the business of defending criminal cases is going to live in controversy all of his or her life.
The long and distressing controversy over capital punishment is very unfair to anyone meditating murder.
What's being pushed is to have Darwinism critiqued, to teach there's a controversy. Intelligent design itself does not have any content.
Politics, or controversy, or party spirit, or worldliness, have eaten out the heart of lively piety in too many of us. The subject of personal godliness has fallen sadly into the background.
A lot of controversy over this possible invasion of Iraq. In fact, Nelson Mandela was so upset, he called Bush's dad. How embarrassing, when world leaders start calling your father.
An entertainer should in his public performance keep himself out of any controversy, political or otherwise.
He was definitely known as the foremost man killer in the West; however there's controversy about virtually every killing that he was known to have been involved in.
There is no controversy within science over the core proposition of evolutionary theory.
I think the Bravo test is really important for a number of reasons. It's kind of symbolic. It raises a lot of the issues that are related to the whole controversy over nuclear testing.
Great people aren't those who are happy at times of convienience and content, but of how they are in times of catastrophy and controversy.
There is in fact a controversy over Darwin's theory. Clearly both theories have religious implications. But this is not about God.
It is almost always the unhappiness of a victorious disputant to destroy his own authority by claiming too many consequences, or diffusing his proposition to an indefensible extent.
Wit has its place in debate; in controversy it is a legitimate weapon, offensive and defensive.
My personality and nothing from my past would have ever predicted that I would be at the center of a controversy.
From the outset, however, this whole controversy has been plagued by tacit assumptions, very often of a philosophical rather than a physical character.
