Controversy Quotes - Page 12

• I think controversy has this allusion of being controversial but it's totally not, which is why I'm trying to get away from it because it's just easy and automatic.

  Bo Burnham

  Thinking, Trying, Controversial

  Source: mancunion.com

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• There's always been a little bit of the crusader in me, and you need dragons to slay, without the conflict and the controversy I think that what I managed to do less, and I take a great deal of pride in the accomplishment.

  Hugh Hefner

  Pride, Thinking, Dragons

  Source: nsarchive.gwu.edu

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• There are very interesting controversies within evolution; however, whether evolution occurs is not one of them. It definitely does.

  Richard Dawkins

  Interesting, Doe, Evolution

  "The Geek's Guide to the Galaxy" with John Joseph Adams and David Barr Kirtley, www.lightspeedmagazine.com. December 2011.

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• It's much easier when your team's winning. When your team starts to lose, that's where a lot of these quarterback controversies divide a locker room. The key, as a pro, is to be a pro.

  Kurt Warner

  Team, Winning, Keys

  Source: bleacherreport.com

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• If people can't take the heat and can't take the controversy then they shouldn't be involved in advertising of reality TV because there is so much heat and controversy in reality TV.

  Jackie Warner

  Reality, People, Tvs

  Interview with Chris Yandek, www.cyinterview.com. May 25, 2008.

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• 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

  Airports, Light, Needs

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• Of all people who engage in controversy, we, who are called Calvinists, are most expressly bound by our own principles to the exercise of gentleness and moderation.

  John Newton

  Exercise, People, Principles

  John Newton (1830). “Forty-one Letters on Religious Subjects, Originally Published Under the Signatures of Omicron and Vigil”, p.145

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• There's always going to be controversy when you write the way I write.

  Ben Mezrich

  Writing, Way

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• I cannot shy away from controversy. I don't know if it's my Irish blood, but I love it.

  Gina McCarthy

  Blood, Shy, Knows

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• Even if there's controversy, I'm going to make the decision, and people are going to be happy in one instance and unhappy in the next. But that's the job I've been given and the job I'm going to embrace.

  Gina McCarthy

  Jobs, People, Decision

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• Obviously, I have been a pro-choice candidate for my entire political career, and obviously there is controversy always surrounding this issue.

  Claire McCaskill

  Careers, Issues, Choices

  "McCaskill: Senate Could Live With Stupak Amendment" by Sam Stein, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

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• I like controversy. The more controversial it gets, the more interesting it is.

  Marco Brambilla

  Interesting, Controversial

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• Darwin's book, On the Origin of Species, was published in 1859. It is perhaps the most influential book that has ever been published, because it was read by scientist and non- scientist alike, and it aroused violent controversy. Religious people disliked it because it appeared to dispense with God; scientists liked it because it seemed to solve the most important problem in the universe-the existence of living matter. In fact, evolution became in a sense a scientific religion; almost all scientists have accepted it and many are prepared to 'bend' their observations to fit in with it.

  Henry Lipson

  Religious, Book, People

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• I wish to preface my reflections by saying that I am conducting this prayer service and am speaking to you now with great reluctance. I did not seek to enter any controversy and I don't relish being part of one. But I have given this matter a great deal of thought and prayer, which has led me to the conviction that God is calling me to speak out and conduct these prayers.

  Thomas J. Paprocki

  Prayer, Reflection, Speaks Out

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• LEAD, n. A heavy blue-gray metal much used ... as a counterpoise to an argument of such weight that it turns the scale of debate the wrong way. An interesting fact in the chemistry of international controversy is that at the point of contact of two patriotisms lead is precipitated in great quantities.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Science, Blue, Two

  Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.2446, Delphi Classics

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• 'Extinction' issue. Save the species for whom??? Humans' convenience, of course! Individuals of the species are snatched from their homes/family/habitat/held in captivity/forced to mate at great physical/ spiritual pain. When the right numbers are reached, their holocaust starts all over again! Another merry-go-round/ bu$ine$$ a$ u$ual!!! Protectionists/welfarists find it a profitable issue: no controversy/ easy donations! I'd rather see an entire species extinct than in the hands of the humans!

  Adela Popescu

  Spiritual, Pain, Home

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• What is disgraceful and outrageous is that 18,000 children die of hunger every day, every one of them a preventable death. That's what the controversy should be about.

  John Powell

  Children, Hunger, Should

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• Evolution is a large political controversy as to what should be taught in the schools. But there is no scientific controversy that we evolved when we talk about evidence from fossils and DNA.

  Carl Zimmer

  School, Dna, Political

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• Most centrist Democrats... try to distance themselves from controversies that recall the 1960s. There are journalistic centrists as well, who avoid hard truths for the sake of acceptance and legitimacy.

  Tom Hayden

  Distance, Acceptance, Trying

  Tom Hayden (2008). “Writings For A Democratic Society: The Tom Hayden Reader”, City Lights Publishers

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• An imbecile habit has arisen in modern controversy of saying that such and such a creed can be held in one age but cannot be held in another. Some dogma, we are told, was credible in the twelfth century, but is not credible in the twentieth. You might as well say that a certain philosophy can be believed on Mondays, but cannot be believed on Tuesdays. You might as well say of a view of the cosmos that it was suitable to half-past three, but not suitable to half-past four. What a man can believe depends upon his philosophy, not upon the clock or the century.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Monday, Philosophy, Believe

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.55, Simon and Schuster

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• The left is entering a new phase of ideological agitation no longer trying to win the debate but stopping debate altogether, banishing from public discourse any and all opposition. The proper word for that attitude is totalitarian. It declares certain controversies over and visits serious consequences from social ostracism to vocational defenestration upon those who refuse to be silenced.

  Charles Krauthammer

  Attitude, Winning, Trying

  "Charles Krauthammer: Thought police on patrol". www.washingtonpost.com. April 10, 2014.

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• Economy is the first and great article (economy such as I understand it) in my financial creed. The controversy between direct and indirect taxation holds a minor, though important place.

  William E. Gladstone

  Important, Taxation, Firsts

  Letter to his brother Robertson of the Financial Reform Association at Liverpool in 1859. "Gladstone as Financier and Economist" by F. W. Hirst, p. 241, 1931.

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• It might be plausibly maintained, that in almost every one of the leading controversies, past or present, in social philosophy, both sides were in the right in what they affirmed, though wrong in what they denied.

  John Stuart Mill

  Philosophy, Past, Might

  John Stuart Mill (1864). “Dissertations and Discussions: Political, Philosophical, and Historical”, p.11

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• My stress on the truth in sexual stereotypes and on the biologic basis of sex differences is sure to cause controversy.

  Camille Paglia

  Sex, Stress, Differences

  Camille Paglia (1990). “Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson”, p.13, Yale University Press

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• I got myself into a lovely little shall we say controversy with André Breton, by pointing out that the discipline of spontaneity, which he was asking his surrealist neophytes to adopt, was new for language but something that composers had been practicing for centuries.

  Virgil Thomson

  Discipline, Lovely, Asking

  Virgil Thomson (1984). “A Virgil Thomson reader”, Plume

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