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Controversy is only dreaded by the advocates of error. -- Benjamin Rush
I don't do things for the response or for the controversy. I just live my life. -- Rihanna
Controversy equalizes fools and wise men in the same way - and the fools know it. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes
When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest. -- William Hazlitt
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. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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. -- Thomas J. Watson
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. -- Julian Assange
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. -- Amitabh Bachchan
Controversy is part of the nature of art and creativity. -- Yoko Ono
Controversy equalizes fools and wise men in the same way - and the fools know it. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes
Controversy is a last resort for the talentless. -- Criss Jami
The dust of controversy is merely the falsehood flying off. -- Thomas Carlyle
Controversy is what mediocre people start because they can't communicate anything meaningful. -- G. Willow Wilson
Controversy, though always an evil in itself, is sometimes a necessary evil. -- Richard Whately
Sometimes its controversy, but we all have our choices that we make. -- Solomon Burke
Controversy chases the Russian writer Vladimir Sorokin the way a dog chases a stick. -- Ken Kalfus
No great advance has ever been made in science, politics, or religion, without controversy. -- Lyman Beecher
The most savage controversies are about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way. -- Bertrand Russell
Controversy for the sake of controversy is sin. Controversy for the sake of truth is a divine command. -- Walter Martin
Doubtless there are times when controversy becomes a necessary evil. But let us remember that it is an evil. -- Arthur Penrhyn Stanley
It is very unfair in any writer to employ ignorance and malice together, because it gives his answerer double work. -- Jonathan Swift
In a controversy, the instant we feel anger, we have already ceased striving for truth and have begun striving for ourselves. -- Abraham Joshua Heschel
A civilization in which there is not a continuous controversy about important issues is on the way to totalitarianism and death -- Robert M. Hutchins
The precipitancy of disputation, and the stir and noise of passions that usually attend it, must needs be prejudicial to verity. -- Joseph Glanvill
Most controversies would soon be ended, if those engaged in them would first accurately define their terms, and then adhere to their definitions. -- Tryon Edwards
The passionate controversies of one era are viewed as sterile preoccupations by another, for knowledge alters what we seek as well as what we find. -- Freda Adler
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! -- Jada Pinkett Smith
It is almost always the unhappiness of a victorious disputant to destroy his own authority by claiming too many consequences, or diffusing his proposition to an indefensible extent. -- Samuel Johnson
I really feel that artists or musicians are controversial people. Controversy is part of the nature of art and creativity. If people are not doing that, they're not artists - they're artisans. -- Yoko Ono
This fear of criticism displayed by the advocates of freedom of criticism cannot be attributed solely to craftiness. No, the majority of the Economists look with sincere resentment upon all theoretical controversies, factional disagreements, broad political questions, plans for organising revolutionaries, etc. -- Vladimir Lenin
Controversy What controversy This is reality. What I see is that no matter if you're a conservative or a liberal or whatever side you stand on, this is the reality of the situation - that people's families and their young kids are being affected. -- Billie Joe Armstrong
Men of many words sometimes argue for the sake of talking; men of ready tongues frequently dispute for the sake of victory; men in public life often debate for the sake of opposing the ruling party, or from any other motive than the love of truth. -- George Crabbe
Controversy and contention are weakening habits. If Satan can succeed in creating in us the pastime of arguing, quarreling, and contention, it is easier for him to bind us with heavier sins which can destroy our eternal lives. Anger is a poor substitute for self-mastery and compassionate service." -- Marvin J. Ashton
What Tully said of war may be applied to disputing: "It should be always so managed as to remember that the only true end of it is peace." But generally true disputants are like true sportsmen,--their whole delight is in the pursuit; and the disputant no more cares for the truth than the sportsman for the hare. -- Alexander Pope
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands in times of challenge and controversy. The true neighbor will risk his position, his prestige, and even his life for the welfare of others. In dangerous valleys and hazardous pathways, he will lift some bruised and beaten brother to a higher and more noble life. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
People like controversy because that's what sells. -- Miley Cyrus
The greater the controversy, the more you need manners. -- Judith Martin
Global warming is controversial, of course, but the controversy is mainly over whether human activity is driving it. -- Michio Kaku
Obviously, I have been a pro-choice candidate for my entire political career, and obviously there is controversy always surrounding this issue. -- Claire McCaskill
In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves. -- Buddha
But we have to pass the bill so you can find out what is in it, away from the fog of the controversy. -- Nancy Pelosi
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. -- Jon Porter
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. -- M. F. Husain
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? -- Stephen Douglas
I enjoy punk, the attitude as well as the music, but I don't feel like I have to be a carbon copy of it and invite all this controversy just to be punk rock. -- Hayley Williams
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. -- Ellen DeGeneres
I think controversy is not always a bad thing. Jesus was controversial. It's through controversy that people often wake up and smell the coffee and say, 'What's going on here? Do we need to rethink something here?' -- Kirk Cameron
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. -- Akon
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. -- Garet Garrett
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. -- Chauncey Depew
Of all the writers I have read, Vladimir Nabokov has made the biggest impression on me because he, despite living through the 1917 February Revolution, forced exile amidst the anti-Semitism in Nazi Germany, the two World Wars and quite a lot of controversy, was an author who never gave up. -- Ashwin Sanghi
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. -- Milla Jovovich
A civilization in which there is not a continuous controversy about important issues is on the way to totalitarianism and death -- Robert M. Hutchins
If it matters, it produces controversy. -- Jay Green
My intention... isn't to create controversy. -- Brett Favre
My books have all generated controversy. -- Helen Fielding
Can one consider controversy without falling into it? -- Elizabeth Janeway
Some people want to have controversy between the races. -- Dennis Rodman
Politics, or controversy, or party spirit, or worldliness, have eaten -- J. C. Ryle
I don't have time to think about the false controversy, -- Susan Rice
The enemy of a writer is not controversy but obscurity. -- William P. Young
I'm a shocker. I like to create controversy. It's my trademark. -- Brenda Fassie
Throughout my political life, I've not been a stranger to controversy. -- David Blunkett
My career has been riddled with controversy, which I never fully understand. -- Liz Phair
Embrace controversy. It gives you a platform. It nudges you to clarity. -- Gloria Feldt
History is the arbiter of controversy, the monarch of all she surveys. -- Lord Acton
I stay as far away from politics as possible, or any controversy. -- Usain Bolt
The media will make a controversy out of anything, if they can. -- Tim Tebow
I am a shocker. I like to create controversy. It's my trademark. -- Brenda Fassie
The curse of modern times is, that almost everything does create controversy. -- Horace Walpole
There is no controversy within science over the core proposition of evolutionary theory -- Kenneth R. Miller
There is no controversy within science over the core proposition of evolutionary theory. -- Kenneth R. Miller
In general, a little controversy isn't harmful: if anything, it gets people interested. -- Charles Stross
It can't hurt, publicity is publicity, controversy and all that, it's all good. -- Keith David
No great advance has been made in science, politics, or religion without controversy. -- Lyman Beecher
The truth is libraries are raucous clubhouses for free speech, controversy and community. -- Paula Poundstone
I like controversy. The more controversial it gets, the more interesting it is. -- Marco Brambilla
It's like you came to a controversy and a ball game breaks out. -- Matt Keough
Anybody can decide a question if only a single principle is in controversy. -- Felix Frankfurter
There's always going to be controversy when you write the way I write. -- Ben Mezrich
My whole life is controversy. What can I do? I'm like Britney Spears! -- Andrej Pejic
I have the New York Daily News to thank for the jeans controversy. -- Calvin Klein
I'm starting to think that my level of intrigue outweighs my fear of controversy. -- Criss Jami
Oh my God, I don't think you can say anyone looks forward to controversy. -- Sonia Sotomayor
... the Athenian lawmaker Solon decreed it a crime for any citizen to shrink from controversy. -- John F. Kennedy
The long and distressing controversy over capital punishment is very unfair to anyone meditating murder. -- Geoffrey Fisher
Out of anger comes controversy, out of controversy comes conversation, out of conversation comes action. -- Tupac Shakur
I love it when my books cause controversy, when people argue violently about the ending. -- Joanne Harris
I cannot, whilst President of the United States, descend to enter into a newspaper controversy. -- James K. Polk
Change is scientific; progress is ethical; change is indubitable, whereas progress is a matter of controversy. -- Bertrand Russell
Wit has its place in debate; in controversy it is a legitimate weapon, offensive and defensive. -- Theodore Parker
The angriest person in a controversy is the one most liable to be in the wrong. -- John Tillotson
The line, often adopted by strong men in controversy, of justifying the means by the end. -- St. Jerome
I've always tried to stay out of the fray and not be an object of controversy. -- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
There's no controversy in my way. There's nobody telling me to rap like this or anything. -- Jayceon Terrell Taylor
My scare value is high. My arena is controversy. My tough front is my biggest asset. -- Roy Cohn
It is past all controversy that what costs dearest is, and ought to be, most valued. -- Miguel de Cervantes
I think it's best to keep the controversy on the pages and not in our relationships. -- Kayla Curry
An entertainer should in his public performance keep himself out of any controversy, political or otherwise. -- Kate Smith
The abortion controversy is important for what it says about our stance toward procreation and children altogether. -- Leon Kass
No sane person should believe that something is subjective merely because it cannot be settled beyond controversy. -- Hilary Putnam
American journalists and politicians made a perfect spectacle of themselves in discussing the Abu Ghraib prison controversy. -- Tony Snow
The teenager seems to have replaced the Communist as the appropriate target for public controversy and foreboding. -- Edgar Friedenberg
Men treat God's sovereignty as a theme for controversy, but in Scripture it is matter for worship. -- J. I. Packer
Impartial - unable to perceive any promise of personal advantage from espousing either side of a controversy. -- Ambrose Bierce
There's a lot of controversy online, some people say i'm a genius and other say i'm hugely talented. -- Andy Kindler
I cannot shy away from controversy. I don't know if it's my Irish blood, but I love it. -- Gina McCarthy
As you find your soul-reservoir of peace, less and less controversy will be able to afflict your life. -- Paramahansa Yogananda
What you leave at your death, let it be without controversy, else the lawyers will be your heirs. -- Frances Osborne
A man does not measure its height in moments of comfort, but in terms of change and controversy -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The controversy was that Chad Dawson thought he was in an MMA fight and not a boxing match. -- Bernard Hopkins
I have never in my career embarked on a journey towards controversy. I have never deliberately set a flame. -- Amanda Palmer
There was no real controversy with All In The Family. That came from the people on the business end. -- Norman Lear
Economics has many substantive areas of knowledge where there is agreement, but also contains areas of controversy. That's inescapable. -- Ben Bernanke
I don't seek controversy. I don't seek to antagonize. Sometimes it happens, but I'm not there to argue politics. -- Marc Maron
Promises controversy on a scale not seen since Samuel Huntington's Clash of Civilizations sought to reframe a new world order. -- Stefan Halper
When men understand what each other mean, they see, for the most part, that controversy is either superfluous or hopeless -- John Henry Newman
Avoid all controversy in preaching, talking, or writing; preach nothing down but the devil, and nothing up but Jesus Christ. -- John Berridge
In politics, the reaction to a controversy is very often more enlightening and important than the details of the allegations themselves. -- Tammy Bruce
There is in fact a controversy over Darwin's theory. Clearly both theories have religious implications. But this is not about God. -- Richard Thompson

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