Definition of Controversy

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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: Agitation, Cause, Contention, Contrary, Debate, Difference, Discussion, Dispute, Equity, In, Law, Of, Or, Quarrel, Question, Right, Strife, Suit, Variance

Controversy Quotations

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

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.

Thus, the controversy about the Moral Majority arises not only from its views, but from its name - which, in the minds of many, seems to imply that only one set of public policies is moral and only one majority can possibly be right.
Edward Kennedy

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

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

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

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

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

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

Controversy Translations

controversy in Dutch is pennestrijd, controverse, polemiek
controversy in German is Kontroverse
controversy in Swedish is tvist, strid

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