Controversy Quotes

Controversy is only dreaded by the advocates of error.

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

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.

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.

When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest.

Anybody can decide a question if only a single principle is in controversy.

I know the pundits and the news media have carried a lot of commentary about cameras in the courtroom, and there's a lot of controversy about it as a result of the Simpson case. But I have not had enough time to step back and enough time to evaluate that.

Thus, the controversy about the Moral Majority arises not only from its views, but from its name - which, in the minds of many, seems to imply that only one set of public policies is moral and only one majority can possibly be right.

I'm not an activist; I don't look for controversy. I'm not a political person, but I'm a person with compassion. I care passionately about equal rights. I care about human rights. I care about animal rights.

People like controversy because that's what sells.

If it matters, it produces controversy.

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

You know, this is - one can imagine how life would be different if one body of Congress was controlled by the other party, there would be subpoena power and there would be all - mechanisms to get to the bottom of all sorts of issues of controversy.

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

In light of the recent controversy surrounding foreign management of U.S. Ports, a thorough review of foreign management of U.S. airports needs to occur.

Slavery is not the only question which comes up in this controversy. There is a far more important one to you, and that is, what shall be done with the free negro?

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.

In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.

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.

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

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

Impartial - unable to perceive any promise of personal advantage from espousing either side of a controversy.

Obviously, I have been a pro-choice candidate for my entire political career, and obviously there is controversy always surrounding this issue.

That was after Napoleon died because there is still a controversy as to whether Napoleon was poisoned with arsenic. And the French say the British did it and the British say the French did it, but he died before the test for arsenic was available.

My books have all generated controversy.

I've always tried to stay out of the fray and not be an object of controversy.

Controversy is part of the nature of art and creativity.

I just lead my life as naturally, as normally as I possibly can. But I can't help it if controversy is hounding me day in and day out. I'm quite amazed sometimes by the way they go about it. I grow a beard and it lands up in the editorial in The Times of India.

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