103 Controversy Quotes for You to Enjoy

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.

Man Measure Of A Man Challenge He Comfort Ultimate Times Controversy Convenience Where Measure Stands 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 Striving Instant Feel Begun Controversy

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 J. Watson

Speak Fear Path Mind Independence Danger Independent Follow Unsafe Ideas Stigma Label Than Controversy Conformity Your Less Expose Thinker

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

Rights Animal Political Compassion Care Human Rights About Animal Rights Look Equal Equal Rights Passionately Person Human Controversy Activist

I have never entered into any controversy in defense of my philosophical opinions; I leave them to take their chance in the world. If they are right, truth and experience will support them; if wrong, they ought to be refuted and rejected. Disputes are apt to sour one's temper and disturb one's quiet. Benjamin Franklin

Truth Experience World Will Defense Ought Philosophical Apt Entered Temper Disturb Take Never Wrong Support Opinions Leave Sour Quiet Any Controversy Them Right Disputes Rejected Chance

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

You Fog Out Find Pass Controversy Bill Away

First rule of change is controversy. You can't get away from it for the simple reason all issues are controversial. Change means movement, and movement means friction, and friction means heat, and heat means controversy. Saul Alinsky

You Change Simple First Rule Simple Reason Issues Friction Get Heat Controversial Controversy Movement Means Reason Away

We are not called upon to enter into controversy with those who hold false theories. Controversy is unprofitable. Christ never entered into it. 'It is written' is the weapon used by the world's Redeemer. Let us keep close to the Word. Let us allow the Lord Jesus and His messengers to testify. We know that their testimony is true. Ellen G. White

World Word Christ Those Enter Entered Weapon Allow Never Written True Know Redeemer Lord Lord Jesus Testify Testimony His False Close Controversy Hold Us Used Theories Who Let Us Keep Jesus

Controversy equalizes fools and wise men in the same way - and the fools know it. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

Wise Men Fools Way Wise Men Know Same Controversy

Whatever obstacle comes your way, you gotta be prepared to jump over it! And I think that's what separates the legends from the regular artists. It's all in how you manage that success, and how you deal with the controversy when it actually comes. Akon

There can be no democracy without truth. There can be no truth without controversy, there can be no change without freedom. Without freedom there can be no progress. Andrew Young

Truth Freedom Democracy Change Progress Without Controversy

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

You Speak Fear Path Mind Important Dangers Independent Follow Cost Seem Unsafe Counted Ideas Stigma Issues Label Up Than Any Controversy Conformity Stand Your Stand Up Less Expose Thinker

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 Believe Bad See Good Thing Take Taken Journalism Powerful Reaction Always Role Controversy Engage Thing

The greater the controversy, the more you need manners. Judith Martin

You Manners More Greater Controversy Need

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

Art Nature Creativity Part Controversy

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 Day Me Beard Sometimes My Life Way Out Possibly India About Lead Day-Out Editorial Amazed Go Up Normally Times Quite Just Controversy Lands Naturally Help Grow

Lawsuits are rare and catastrophic experiences for the vast majority of men, and even when the catastrophe ensues, the controversy relates most often not to the law, but to the facts. In countless litigations, the law Is so clear that judges have no discretion. Benjamin N. Cardozo

I think controversy is not always a bad thing. Jesus was controversial. It's through controversy that people often wake up and smell the coffee and say, 'What's going on here? Do we need to rethink something here?' Kirk Cameron

If you get involved in a controversy, then that becomes the mesmerizing event that people remember you by. Newt Gingrich

You People Remember Involved Mesmerizing Becomes Get Controversy Then Event

I think controversy is an interesting thing in that it usually goes hand in hand with starting conversations that surround taboo or under-discussed topics that need to be discussed and need to be less in the shadows, in my opinion. Alex Sharp

Think Topics Taboo Shadows Opinion Hand Hand-In-Hand Surround Discussed Goes Controversy In My Opinion Conversations Interesting Interesting Thing Less Thing Starting Need

I have never in my career embarked on a journey towards controversy. I have never deliberately set a flame. Amanda Palmer

Journey Flame Embarked Deliberately Never Towards Controversy Career Set

I often find that pundits are quite negative... not just in tennis, but in sport in general. I just don't like that. Obviously, the job of a pundit is to create interest and a bit of controversy. I get that. Listeners like that. But I do think there's a duty there to promote the sport and talk about how good these people are at what they do. Andy Murray

Good People Negative Job Duty Think Bit Pundits Promote Find About General Tennis Like Talk Sport Obviously How Get Quite Often Listeners Just Controversy Interest Create

Evolutionary psychology has often been a field whose most prominent practitioners get embroiled in controversy - witness the 2010 case of Harvard professor Marc Hauser, whose graduate students came forward to say he'd been faking evidence for years. Annalee Newitz

Witness Field Say Evidence Harvard Prominent Evolutionary Case Students He Most Faking Came Been Years Get Graduate Often Graduate Students Controversy Psychology Forward Whose Marc Professor

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