Controversy Quotes

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.

Challenge, Times, Moments

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

Truth, Anger, Ourselves

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

Care, Political, Human

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

Find, Away, Pass

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

Personal, Either, Promise

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

Point, Temper, Dispute

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

Fear, Mind, Important

Controversy equalizes fools and wise men - and the fools know it.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

Men, Wise, Fools

When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest.
William Hazlitt

Interest, Subject, Ceases

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 John Watson, Sr.

Fear, Mind, Path

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.
Conan O'Brien

Rock, Another, Nose

Controversy is part of the nature of art and creativity.
Yoko Ono

Nature, Art, Creativity

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

Stay, Tried, Object

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

Life, Help, Sometimes

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

Life, Live, Response

People like controversy because that's what sells.
Miley Cyrus

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

Daily, York, News

Controversy is only dreaded by the advocates of error.
Benjamin Rush

My intention... isn't to create controversy.
Brett Favre

Create, Intention

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

Good, Powerful, Bad

My career has been riddled with controversy, which I never fully understand.
Liz Phair

Career, Understand, Fully

In the current climate motorists have a long list of issues from which to choose to raise on the doorstep. Policies aimed at reducing emissions - like the changes to Vehicle Excise Duty or here in Manchester the proposals for congestion charges - are not without controversy.
Lucy Powell

Long, Here, Choose

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

Create, Trademark

I started reading and learned that we don't need any of it - meat, dairy products. We get everything we need without those things - except maybe B12, but there's this whole controversy that maybe we're only getting B12 because the animals are being fed B12 supplements.
Ginnifer Goodwin

Everything, Learned, Whole

I'm not one of your knockabout, knuckle-scarred, Internet-controversy-courting book critics. Occasionally I stumble into controversy accidentally, but not because I enjoy it. It's probably just because I'm a weird person.
Lev Grossman

Book, Person, Enjoy

If it matters, it produces controversy.
Jay Greene

Matters, Produces

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

Children, Important, Says

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

Person, Cannot, Beyond

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

Amazing, Keep, Secret

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.
Hugh Grant

Fear, Technology, Sometimes

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