Controversy Quotes

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

The abortion controversy is important for what it says about our stance toward procreation and children altogether.

There was no real controversy with All In The Family. That came from the people on the business end.

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

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.

Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the dangers of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of 'crackpot' than the stigma of conformity. And on issues that seem important to you, stand up and be counted at any cost.

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.

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.

A lot was happening, plus there were an enormous number of people in the industry that were going to conventions, so it was a pretty fun time. Also there was a lot of controversy and I was at the forefront of some of that.

It is not he who gains the exact point in dispute who scores most in controversy - but he who has shown the better temper.

The long and distressing controversy over capital punishment is very unfair to anyone meditating murder.

There was endless controversy as to whether the acts of the New Deal did actually move recovery or retard it, and nothing final could ever come of that bitter debate because it is forever impossible to prove what might have happened in place of what did.

Controversy equalizes fools and wise men - and the fools know it.

Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the danger of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of "crackpot" than the stigma of conformity.

I have been told by a member of the board of one of Canada's most prominent literary magazines that a submission of mine once caused a great deal of controversy.

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

I think you don't do work for controversy alone, and whenever you do new work which people don't understand and they say it is done to create controversy.

I have the New York Daily News to thank for the jeans controversy.

David Mamet we all know is a great screenplay writer and playwright and a great director. If you like him, you like him. If you hate him, you really hate him. He's someone who's into controversy, you know what I mean? That's David Mamet.

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.

No great advance has been made in science, politics, or religion without controversy.

It is the role of good journalism to take on powerful abusers, and when powerful abusers are taken on, there's always a bad reaction. So we see that controversy, and we believe that is a good thing to engage in.

There is all this controversy that women and girls are too skinny or too overweight. I say to just do martial arts and everything will be okay. You will tone up your body and find a confidence you can't find just sitting around watching TV and hanging out with friends.