Controversy Quotes
Avoid all controversy in preaching, talking, or writing; preach nothing down but the devil, and nothing up but Jesus Christ.
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.
Promises controversy on a scale not seen since Samuel Huntington’s Clash of Civilizations sought to reframe a new world order.
Everyone claims to be okay with freedom of religion, but the moment you mention God there is a strange tension that fills the air. If there was a 6th sense, that would be it.
If you have to say or do something controversial, aim so that people will hate that they love it and not love that they hate it.
There's a lot of controversy online, some people say i'm a genius and other say i'm hugely talented.
In general, a little controversy isn't harmful: if anything, it gets people interested.
I discovered something amazing, which has caused a lot of controversy - the fountain of youth. I have to keep it a secret!
In the field of controversy I always pity the moderate party, who stand on the open middle ground exposed to the fire of both sides.
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.
Controversy is always a beautiful thing. I love controversy and I try to fan it as much as I can without having my husband's head pop off!
Of all people who engage in controversy, we, who are called Calvinists, are most expressly bound by our own principles to the exercise of gentleness and moderation.
It is past all controversy that what costs dearest is, and ought to be, most valued.
As De Tocqueville said, sooner or later in the United States, every controversy ends up in court. I think that's a great - says great things about our judicial system.
Some concepts are so incredibly risky they take an honest fool to try to articulate them.
Peaceful disputes are maintained when men sincerely believe that they are morally, logically correct about the issues at hand. It is when neither side is really certain that wars are instigated.
The love of conflict is most evident when opposing forces join sides to defeat the peacemaker.
A rebel adult often seems like a glorious savior, whereas a rebel child often seems like a little devil.
When both sides of a controversy revel in the defeat and humiliation of the other side, in fact they are on the same side: the side of war.
Third world nations are producing too many children too fast...it is time to ignore the controversy over family planning and cut out-of-control population growth.
I have never in my career embarked on a journey towards controversy. I have never deliberately set a flame.
The political controversy surrounding this Boston's Big Dig could have the effect of throwing cold water on any plans for farsighted infrastructure development around the country.
The controversy was that Chad Dawson thought he was in an MMA fight and not a boxing match.
Evolution is a large political controversy as to what should be taught in the schools. But there is no scientific controversy that we evolved when we talk about evidence from fossils and DNA.
We turn now over the debate of the proposed Islamic center and mosque near Ground Zero....The controversy has raised profound questions about religious tolerance and prejudice in the United States.
Obviously, I have been a pro-choice candidate for my entire political career, and obviously there is controversy always surrounding this issue.
I feel like great TED Talks are ones that are a little bit subject to interpretation, that do provoke further conversation - and potentially controversy.
What you leave at your death, let it be without controversy, else the lawyers will be your heirs.
... religious controversy does only harm. It destroys humble inquiry after truth, and throws all the energies into an attempt to prove ourselves right-a spirit in which no man gets at truth.
Controversy is what mediocre people start because they can't communicate anything meaningful.
Speaking of the motto of the New York Times, "All the news that's fit to print:" It is hard to think of any group of seven words that have aroused more newspaper controversy.
I cannot shy away from controversy. I don't know if it's my Irish blood, but I love it.
Embrace controversy. It gives you a platform. It is a teacher, a clarifier, and your friend, especially if you are trying to make change.
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.
Whenever I write anything that sets up controversy its meaning is distorted almost instantly. Even the editorial writers of newspapers seem to be unable to understand the plainest sentence.
The late William Jennings Bryan, L.L.D., always had one great advantage in controversy; he was never burdened with an understanding of his opponent's case.
I'm not really interested in courting controversy, but I am interested in exploring issues that other people would deem to be controversial.
If people can't take the heat and can't take the controversy then they shouldn't be involved in advertising of reality TV because there is so much heat and controversy in reality TV.
Attacks on alternative religious groups are attempts to psychologize - to medicalize - a controversy that, on deeper examination, is clearly a controversy over ideology and lifestyle.
