If journalism is good, it is controversial, by its nature. — Julian Assange
Contention is inseparable from creating knowledge. It is not contention we should try to avoid, but discourses that attempt to suppress contention. — Joyce Appleby
I've never intended to be controversial but it's very easy to be controversial in pop music because nobody ever is. — Steven Morrissey
When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest. — William Hazlitt
Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress. — Mahatma Gandhi
Why is there such controversy about drug testing? I know plenty of guys who'd be willing to test any drug they can come up with. — George Carlin
Just so you know, I am an ex-controversial YouTuber. — Logan Paul
I don't see how you can write anything of value if you don't offend someone. — Marvin Harris
My whole life is controversy. What can I do? I'm like Britney Spears! — Andrej Pejic
Making love in the green grass behind the stadium with you my brown eyed girl. — Van Morrison
Controversy Image Quotes
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.
Controversial Issues Quotes
The issue of human rights is one of the most fundamental human issues and also one of the most sensitive and controversial. — Ali Khamenei
Controversial issues are always more interesting but I don't create material about a subject I have opinion on just because it's controversial. The most fun is having a point of view that the audience is generally against and presenting an argument that challenges their thinking. — Doug Stanhope
Schools provide safe spaces to talk about controversial issues, and literature presents characters portraying human experience in all its richness and contradictoriness. — Julia Alvarez
When a thing ceases to be subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest.
If you do not specify and confront real issues, what you say will surely obscure them. If you do not embody controversy, what you say will be an acceptance of the drift to the coming human hell. — C. Wright Mills
It is Satan's constant effort to misrepresent the character of God, the nature of sin, and the real issues at stake in the great controversy. His sophistry lessens the obligation of the divine law and gives men license to sin. — Ellen G. White
A civilization in which there is not a continuous controversy about important issues is on the way to totalitarianism and death — Robert M. Hutchins
There are people who can talk sensibly about a controversial issue; they're called humorists. — Cullen Hightower
For a lot of women, one of the hardest things about leadership is the desire to be liked by everyone. That's often inconsistent with leadership. It's certainly inconsistent with taking positions on very controversial issues. — Sarah Weddington
It is pretty hard to find the right result to a controversial issue. — Max Baucus
The only way to settle questions of an ideological nature or controversial issues among the people is by the democratic method, the method of discussion, of criticism, of persuasion and education, and not by the method of coercion or repression. — Mao Zedong
Controversial Topics Quotes
Sometimes it's tempting to go for more clickbait or go cover more controversial topics, or just find a gimmick that'll get more people to click. — MrBeast
Ask two people to tell you anything, you’ll get two versions. Even easy things like directions, let alone important or semi-controversial topics like why a fight started or what a person was generally like. If you don’t know something for yourself, you just can’t be sure. — Gabrielle Zevin
Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It's too controversial. — Erma Bombeck
I was fascinated by a compelling character embroiled in a controversial topic that told the story from a different point of view. — Bjorn Borg
What makes me vulnerable is speaking up about topics that may be controversial to others. — Gabrielle Bernstein
I'd like to think I'm going upriver in talking about world-view topics rather than particular political or controversial topics. — Max Lucado
My "home" is a controversial topic. I don't exactly have one. I live all over the world. — Lady Gaga
Young people are having a hard time with what's reality and what's fantasy these days...We created discussion. It wasn't to create controversy for sale's sake, but rather it was my obligation to use the medium for discussion. Nobody's discussing the grown-up topics; they are faking and fronting. — Chuck D
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
As anchorman of the CBS Evening News, I signed off my nightly broadcasts for nearly two decades with a simple statement: "And that's the way it is." To me, that encapsulates the newsman's highest ideal: to report the facts as he sees them, without regard for the consequences or controversy that may ensue. — Walter Cronkite
Nobody wants to know a colored woman's opinion about her own status of that of her group. When she dares express it, no matter how mild or tactful it may be, it is called 'propaganda,' or is labeled 'controversial.' Those two words have come to have a very ominous sound to me. — Mary Church Terrell
I am continually fascinated at the difficulty intelligent people have in distinguishing what is controversial from what is merely offensive. — Nora Ephron
There's a big misconception that controversy and negativity is the only way to get clicks, because that's how it is in the media, for the most part, they don't want good stories, they just want bad things. — MrBeast
The idea that working a blue-collar job and living in a working-class community provides barriers that are unique to your circumstances - that's not a very controversial subject anymore. I think it's something that people on both the Left and the Right probably accept. — James David Vance
The one thing ... that is truly ugly is the climate of hate and intimidation, created by a noisy few, which makes the decent majority reluctant to air in public their views on anything controversial. ... Where all pretend to be thinking alike, it's likely that no one is thinking at all. — Edward Abbey
Let's find those people whose names do not cause controversy in our present and in our future. Let's name the monuments and streets for those people whose names do not provoke conflict. — Volodymyr Zelenskyy
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 John Watson, Sr.
A child who is protected from all controversial ideas is as vulnerable as a child who is protected from every germ. The infection, when it comes- and it will come- may overwhelm the system, be it the immune system or the belief system. — Jane Smiley
Impartial - unable to perceive any promise of personal advantage from espousing either side of a controversy. — Ambrose Bierce
If an individual wants to be a leader and isn't controversial, that means he never stood for anything. — Richard M. Nixon
History fades into fable; fact becomes clouded with doubt and controversy; the inscription molders from the tablet: the statue falls from the pedestal. Columns, arches, pyramids, what are they but heaps of sand; and their epitaphs, but characters written in the dust? — Washington Irving
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
I think that everyone has an equal right to play and I think we've been supportive of that. With the Olympics and the controversy around that I think those decisions and those laws aren't necessarily something that I agree with personally ... their laws and their views. — Sidney Crosby
In a controversy, the instant we feel anger, we have already ceased striving for truth and have begun striving for ourselves. — Abraham Joshua Heschel
In the networks' endless pursuit of controversy, we should ask what is the end value ... to enlighten or to profit? What is the end result ... to inform or to confuse? How does the ongoing exploration for more action, more excitements, more drama, serve our national search for internal peace and stability. — Spiro T. Agnew
I have reason to be grateful to Dr. Cook for favors received; I lived with his folks while I was suffering with my eyes, due to snow blindness, but I feel that all of the debts of gratitude have been liquidated by my silence in this controversy, and I will have nothing more to say in regard to him or to his claims. — Matthew Henson
The recent medical controversy over whether vaccinations cause autism reveals a habit of human cognition — thinking anecdotally comes naturally, whereas thinking scientifically does not. — Michael Shermer
There are other areas of the base that are controversial - but they both exist simultaneously - out there in the desert. — Annie Jacobsen
I have thought from the time of the cessation of the hostilities, that silence and patience on the part of the South was the true course; and I think so still. Controversy of all kinds will, in my opinion, only serve to continue excitement and passion, and will prevent the public mind from the acknowledgement and acceptance of the truth. — Robert E. Lee
No sane person should believe that something is subjective merely because it cannot be settled beyond controversy. — Hilary Putnam
Only one thing is certian about coffee.... Wherever it is grown, sold, brewed, and consumed, there will be lively controversy, strong opinions, and good conversation. — Mark Pendergrast
Like, yes, we had a furniture fire get out of control in our backyard one time. But that didn't harm a single person. — Jake Paul
It's funny how something so normal and mundane that you see every day-your body-can be controversial. The shock value is intense. It's like carrying an art piece around with you all the time. — Beth Ditto
We shouldn’t have to be faithful loyalists of the powerful to feel safe from state surveillance. Nor should the price of immunity be refraining from controversial or provocative dissent. — Glenn Greenwald
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