Controversy Quotes

When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest. (William Hazlitt)
No sane person should believe that something is 'subjective' merely because it cannot be settled beyond controversy. View quote
Hilary Putnam
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy. View quote
Martin Luther King Jr.
Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about his taste, nor condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion. View quote
George Santayana
There's always going to be controversy when you write the way I write. View quote
Ben Mezrich
From the accession of Henry the Seventh to the breaking out of the civil wars, England enjoyed much greater exemption from war, foreign and domestic, than for a long period before, and during the controversy between the houses of York and Lancaster. These years of peace were favorable to commerce and the arts. Commerce and the arts augmented general and individual knowledge; and knowledge is the only fountain, both of the love and the principles of human liberty. View quote
Daniel Webster
The recent medical controversy over whether vaccinations cause autism reveals a habit of human cognition-thinking anecdotally comes naturally, whereas thinking scientifically does not. View quote
Michael Shermer
For any new technology there is always controversy and there always some fear associated with it. I think that's just the price of being first sometimes. View quote
Hugh Grant
My stress on the truth in sexual stereotypes and on the biologic basis of sex differences is sure to cause controversy. View quote
Camille Paglia
If you do not specify and confront real issues, what you say will surely obscure them. If you do not embody controversy, what you say will be an acceptance of the drift to the coming human hell. View quote
C. Wright Mills
Marx set out to resolve the contradictions and to correct the errors in classical political economy. In this he thought he had succeeded very well. Judging by the sound and the fury of the controversy surrounding his interpretations, he either succeeded too well or deluded himself to the success of his enterprise. (David Harvey)
Doubtless there are times when controversy becomes a necessary evil. But let us remember that it is an evil. View quote
Arthur Penrhyn Stanley
The controversy as to whether socialism is possible has been settled by the fact that it exists, and it is a fundamental axiom of my philosophy, at any rate, that anything that exists, is possible. View quote
Kenneth Boulding
It is past all controversy that what costs dearest is, and ought to be, most valued. View quote
Miguel de Cervantes
The theory of politics that emerges from the political literature of the pre-Revolutionary years rests on the belief that what lay behind every political scene, the ultimate explanation of every political controversy, was the disposition of power. View quote
Bernard Bailyn
There have been five great kisses since 1642 B. C...(before then couples hooked thumbs.) And the precise rating of kisses is a terribly difficult thing, often leading to great controversy.... Well, this one left them all behind. View quote
William Goldman
Much of the controversy and anxiety that has enveloped Darwin's idea ... can be understood as a series of failed campaigns to contain Darwin;s idea within some acceptably "safe" and merely partial revolution. Cede some or all of modern biology to Darwin, perhaps, but hold the line there! Keep Darwinian thinking out of cosmology, out of psychology, out of human culture, out of ethics, politics, and religion! In these campaigns, many battles have been won by the forces of containment: flawed applications of Darwin's idea have been exposed and discredited, beaten back by the champions of the pre-Darwinian tradition. But new waves of Darwinian thinking keep coming. View quote
Daniel Dennett
I'm not one of your knockabout, knuckle-scarred, Internet-controversy-courting book critics. Occasionally I stumble into controversy accidentally, but not because I enjoy it. It's probably just because I'm a weird person. View quote
Lev Grossman
To me the notion that Palestinians are actually Jews is, I think, quite revelatory and very radical and a possible bridge that has been ignored, I think, in this entire controversy and there's ample evidence to support it. View quote
Lawrence Wright
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. View quote
Conan O'Brien
The long and distressing controversy over capital punishment is very unfair to anyone meditating murder. (Geoffrey Fisher)
Whatever obstacle comes your way, you gotta be prepared to jump over it! And I think that's what separates the legends from the regular artists. It's all in how you manage that success, and how you deal with the controversy when it actually comes. View quote
Akon
I'm a shocker. I like to create controversy. It's my trademark. View quote
Brenda Fassie
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. View quote
Gregg Easterbrook
Even though Rush is not me and the situations were very different, I think, in the Rush Limbaugh thing, ESPN was criticized for not acting, and you remember that after a couple days of controversy over Rush. View quote
Gregg Easterbrook