Controversial Quotes

We're always going to argue about abortion. It's a hard choice and it's controversial, and that's why I'm pro-choice, because I want people to make their own choices.

I may be controversial, but my allegiance is to people outside the Beltway.

I'm not really interested in courting controversy, but I am interested in exploring issues that other people would deem to be controversial.

Comprehensive, judicious, evenhanded, original. An Unfinished Life has the sober judgment and nuanced accuracy that make it ring true in all the controversial and tricky parts.

I would just like my children to be able to eat fish when they grow up. Now, I don't think there's anything controversial about that.

I'll never tell a lie. I'll never make a misleading statement. I'll never betray the confidence that any of you had in me. And I'll never avoid a controversial issue.

The type of religion which rejoices in the pious sound of traditional phrases, regardless of their meanings, or shrinks from "controversial" matters, will never stand amid the shocks of life.

To get some of the substance of why [Michael] Flynn [is Defense Adviser] is so controversial.

If something is very, very funny but possibly controversial, if it's truly funny, then it's worth doing. Things aren't worth doing for the sake of being controversial.

I think the world likes to pick apart different songs and play doctor with songs sometimes and make them into this big controversial thing.

Requiem has been controversial because people dont feel I gave it closure.

Michael Flynn is a very controversial figure for a variety of reasons.

[Michael Flynn is] controversial among many people in the national security establishment, many people in the Republican mainstream. The thing about this appointment that, again, goes to me is most.

Everything I think seems to be controversial, so I feel like I need to just go away for a second and put it all down on paper until the storm passes.

I'd be very controversial if I said why, and I don't do controversial anymore. That's too passé. So last year. Being controversial is boring now.

I like controversy. The more controversial it gets, the more interesting it is.

I have this idiot name tag which says 'controversial.'

I'd like to think I'm going upriver in talking about world-view topics rather than particular political or controversial topics.

Of all the subjects I have photographed, the most controversial and the one that has moved me the most has to be the prostitutes who are getting on in years. They are true survivors.

Ninety-eight percent of the things that come out of my mouth are intended to be harmless or even charming. They're not ever intended to be offensive or controversial.

I get called 'controversial' all the time.

Now that I exist in the mainstream majority, I'm not really so controversial any more, am I? Not really news.

A lot of networks don't want to touch controversial subjects, and especially stuff that deals with race and history.

I'm a storyline. I'm the chosen one for negative stories and controversial things. If I worried about it all, I would go insane.

About specific social issues, there is a great deal to say that departs very far from truism and is, accordingly, significant and controversial.

When you do controversial work, you're going to upset a certain amount of people.

There are usually half a dozen right answers to what needs to be done. Yet, unless a person makes the risky and controversial choice of only one, he will achieve nothing.

My most famous drama in England is quite controversial. It's something called Men Only, and it's rather a shocking exploration of male sexuality.

I am always in awe of people who devote their lives to a good cause and are brave enough to take a stance, though it may be controversial in their time.

When someone sets out to be controversial or provocative or shocking as an end in itself, I don't think that's a noble goal.

I spent my whole career playing it safe, being a gentleman, never doing anything controversial.

I'm not really volunteering for no family films. I really like the sweet spot of being able to be edgy and controversial.

I was very willing to take on controversial roles that people didn't really want to look at.

Public health regulations are often controversial at the time but who would want to go back to the days of sitting in smoke-filled restaurants or cars without seatbelts?

I'm not always happy when Hollywood does remakes of films, but that's usually, when they have a very, very, very good film and they take away anything controversial from it and make flatter.

Many cartoons I've drawn have been controversial, perhaps a little before their time, certainly when I was getting started.

You know, the only reason net neutrality is controversial is because it's complicated.

I'm really happy I was kicked out of CalArts (for a controversial art piece I made).

People who always want to be at convenient places won’t make a change at controversial places.

Many a time, we let go of some really good ideas just because we feel they are too controversial.

Children are often like hostages under the care of authority, with spankings and groundings nudging them like guns pointed at their skulls, threatening to shoot if the wrong words are uttered.

If my phrases shock the reader, that only shows it is high time he or she was shocked.

Don't judge a man by his controversies. Anyone could find him or herself dealing with issues. What matters is how they deal with it.

To the union of all honest men.

Make a start, even if you have a controversial idea!