Quotes on Controversy

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.

Author: Julian Assange

That was after Napoleon died because there is still a controversy as to whether Napoleon was poisoned with arsenic. And the French say the British did it and the British say the French did it, but he died before the test for arsenic was available.

Author: Michael Baden

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

Author: Ambrose Bierce

I had hoped that the current presidential campaign debates might educate the public as to what is really involved in the ongoing controversy over campaign financing.

Author: James Buckley

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

Author: Samuel Butler

He was definitely known as the foremost man killer in the West; however there's controversy about virtually every killing that he was known to have been involved in.

Author: Keith Carradine

It can't hurt, publicity is publicity, controversy and all that, it's all good.

Author: Keith David

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?

Author: Stephen Douglas

For what I wrote that started this whole controversy, I deserved to be criticized, and I felt bad about writing it. I felt bad mainly as a writer and a thinker.

Author: Gregg Easterbrook

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

Author: Brenda Fassie

Anybody can decide a question if only a single principle is in controversy.

Author: Felix Frankfurter

There was endless controversy as to whether the acts of the New Deal did actually move recovery or retard it, and nothing final could ever come of that bitter debate because it is forever impossible to prove what might have happened in place of what did.

Author: Garet Garrett

If it matters, it produces controversy.

Author: Jay Greene

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

Author: William Hazlitt

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.

Author: Edward Kennedy

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

Author: Calvin Klein

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.

Author: Conan O'Brien

But we have to pass the bill so you can find out what is in it, away from the fog of the controversy.

Author: Nancy Pelosi

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

Author: Hilary Putnam

Controversy is only dreaded by the advocates of error.

Author: Benjamin Rush

I think the Bravo test is really important for a number of reasons. It's kind of symbolic. It raises a lot of the issues that are related to the whole controversy over nuclear testing.

Author: Martha Smith