Controversy Quotes

People like controversy because that's what sells.

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

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.

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

My books have all generated controversy.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

Controversy is part of the nature of art and creativity.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.