Best 100 quotes in «controversy quotes» category

The art schools... you get young kids doing the most vile and meaningless crap. I think the believe every bit of it.

Traditional Networking: "Playing it safe." Guerrilla Networking: "Creating a controversy.

The summary of Lambert and Lillenfelt’s “Bloodstains” in Scientific American Mind in the October 12, 2007 The Informed Reader passes along many of these authors’ strong opinions on complex and controversial topics without informing the readership that the authors’ perspective is extreme, polarized, and vulnerable to challenge at many crucial points. It is clear that false memories can be implanted in about 25% of subjects, when those memories concern issues in the normal and expectable range of experience. However, about 75% of subjects resist such efforts, and efforts to implant memories of abuse or offensive medical procedures are almost universally rejected. Therefore a wholesale attack against therapies that explore patients’ memories is unwarranted. “Recovered Memory Therapy” is not a school of treatment. It is a slur used to mischaracterize approaches offensive to the authors’ perspectives, designed to evoke an emotional bias against those to whom the slur is applied.

The one who does not know to spread love will spread controversy

This is almost always the case: A piece of art receives its f(r)ame when found offensive.

Unable to understand why you think so, when you chose a different path.

We have never solved the mystery of ice ages in the tropics, nor the equally strange mystery of the growth of corals and warm-climate flora in the polar zones. [...] It became obvious to me, as I reviewed these problems, and went back over the controversies that had marked their consideration, that a sort of common denominator was present. [...] [S]omebody usually tried to explain the particular problem in terms of changes in the position of the poles. This, I found, was the common denominator. The authors of such theories, unfortunately, were never able to prove their assumptions. The opponents of the notion of polar change always managed to point out fallacies that seemed decisive. At the same time, no one was able to reconcile all the evidence in the different fields with the idea that the poles have always been situated where they are now on the earth's surface. The theory here presented would solve these problems by supposing changes in the positions of the poles. Campbell has suggested that the changes have occurred not by reason of changes in the position of the earth's axis, but simply through a sliding of its crust.

Trying to be offensive for the sole purpose of being offensive should always deem one the least offensive of offenders.

Washington DC is happiest when in indignation overdrive.

We are very much afflicted now by tedious, fruitless controversy. Very often, perhaps typically, the most important aspect of a controversy is not the area of disagreement but the hardening of agreement, the tacit granting on all sides of assumptions that ought not to be granted on any side.

Your prospects are not idiots, communicate respectfully - you might actually learn something to propel your marketing forward.

Ahhh, I love to love you baby, ahhh.

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

A person in the business of defending criminal cases is going to live in controversy all of his or her life.

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

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

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

For what I wrote that started this whole controversy, I deserved to be criticized, and I felt bad about writing it. I felt bad mainly as a writer and a thinker.

History is the arbiter of controversy, the monarch of all she surveys.

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.

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

I confess I take perverse delight as a theologian in the controversies surrounding postmodernism.

I decline all noisy, wordy, confused, and personal controversies.

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

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

If it matters, it produces controversy.

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

I discovered something amazing, which has caused a lot of controversy - the fountain of youth. I have to keep it a secret!

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

I don't have time to think about the false controversy.

In the midnight hour I can feel your power...

I'll get you naked by the end of this song.

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

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

I stay as far away from politics as possible, or any controversy.

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

My whole life is controversy. What can I do? I'm like Britney Spears!

Mama, don't take my Kodachrome away.

My intention... isn't to create controversy.

No sane person should believe that something is subjective merely because it cannot be settled beyond controversy.

One thing which Stephen A. Douglas was temperamentally incapable of doing was admitting he was wrong. He always believed that 'popular sovereignty' - the core doctrine of the Kansas-Nebraska Bill - was the right solution to the slavery controversy; and even though it had failed to solve much of anything in Kansas and Nebraska, he stubbornly insisted that this was because it had never been adequately tested.

Jew me, sue me, everybody do me.

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

People like controversy because that's what sells.

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

The controversies between the proletariat and the middle class had to be smoothed out and bridged over by each getting to know and understand the other.

The curse of modern times is, that almost everything does create controversy.

Out of anger comes controversy, out of controversy comes conversation, out of conversation comes action.

The dust of controversy is merely the falsehood flying off.

Short people got no reason to live.