Best 100 quotes in «controversy quotes» category

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

If it matters, it produces controversy.

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.

Jew me, sue me, everybody do me.

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

Mama, don't take my Kodachrome away.

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

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.

People like controversy because that's what sells.

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

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

Short people got no reason to live.

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

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

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

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

There is no controversy within science over the core proposition of evolutionary theory.

The dust of controversy is merely the falsehood flying off.

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.

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

There is no dispute managed without passion, and yet there is scarce a dispute worth a passion.

Up come a flat top, he was movin' up with me.

Touch, touch, touch, touch me love, I'm shaking inside.

To the extreme I rock a mike like a vandal.

What you leave at your death, let it be without controversy, else the lawyers will be your heirs.

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

Watch our children while they kill each other with guns they bought at Wal-Mart.

When men understand what each other mean, they see, for the most part, that controversy is either superfluous or hopeless

You got to hidey-hide, you got to jump and run again. You got to hide-hidey-hide, the old man is down the road.

A few more Rules may fitly be given here, for correspondence that has unfortunately become controversial. One is, don’t repeat yourself. When once you have said your say, fully and clearly, on a certain point, and have failed to convince your friend, drop that subject: to repeat your arguments, all over again, will simply lead to his doing the same; and so you will go on, like a Circulating Decimal. Did you ever know a Circulating Decimal come to an end?

At a deeper level what this whole exchange revealed to me was something disturbing about the way science works. I hadn't quite grasped the role of fear before. But I could see it in action everywhere here: fear of being 'noticed and monitored by colleagues,' fear of unwanted negative celebrity, fear of indignity, fear of loss of reputation, fear of loss of career--and not for committing some terrible crime but simply for exploring unorthodox possibilities and undertaking 'somewhat controversial research' into what everyone agrees were extraordinary events 12,800 years ago. Worse still, this pervasive state of fear has somehow ingrained itself so deeply into the fabric of science that those who have embraced unorthodox possibilities themselves are often among the least willing to consider unorthodox possibilities embraced by others--lest by doing so they 'contaminate' their own preferred unorthodoxy. How will it ever be possible to discover the truth about the past when so much fear gets in the way?

After writing the letter Sybil lost almost two days. "Coming to," she stumbled across what she had written just before she had dissociated and wrote to Dr. Wilbur as follows: It's just so hard to have to feel, believe, and admit that I do not have conscious control over my selves. It is so much more threatening to have something out of hand than to believe that at any moment I can stop (I started to say "This foolishness") any time I need to. When I wrote the previous letter, I had made up my mind I would show you how I could be very composed and cool and not need to ask you to listen to me nor to explain anything to me nor need any help. By telling you that all this about the multiple personalities was not really true I could show, or so I thought, that I did not need you. Well, it would be easier if it were put on. But the only ruse of which I'm guilty is to have pretended for so long before coming to you that nothing was wrong. Pretending that the personalities did not exist has now caused me to lose about two days.

All students of man and society who possess that first requisite for so difficult a study, a due sense of its difficulties, are aware that the besetting danger is not so much of embracing falsehood for truth, as of mistaking part of the truth for the whole. It might be plausibly maintained that in almost every one of the leading controversies, past or present, in social philosophy, both sides were in the right in what they affirmed, though wrong in what they denied; and that if either could have been made to take the other’s views in addition to its own, little more would have been needed to make its doctrine correct.