Definition of Controversy
Controversy
Contention; dispute; debate; discussion; agitation of contrary opinions.
Quarrel; strife; cause of variance; difference.
A suit in law or equity; a question of right.
Related Definitions:
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Debate,
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Strife,
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Controversy Quotations
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.
In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.
Buddha
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
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
Impartial - unable to perceive any promise of personal advantage from espousing either side of a controversy.
Ambrose Bierce
Controversy equalizes fools and wise men - and the fools know it.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
There was no real controversy with All In The Family. That came from the people on the business end.
Norman Lear
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
When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest.
William Hazlitt
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
Controversy Translations
controversy in Dutch is pennestrijd, controverse, polemiek
controversy in German is Kontroverse
controversy in Swedish is tvist, strid
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