“The most savage controversies are about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way”
Bertrand Russell
“In a controversy, the instant we feel anger, we have already ceased striving for truth and have begun striving for ourselves”
Abraham J. Heschel
“Why is there so much controversy about drug testing? I know plenty of guys who would be willing to test any drug they could come up with”
George Carlin
“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.
“Controversy equalizes fools and wise men - and the fools know it”
Oliver Wendell Holmes
“A civilization in which there is not a continuous controversy about important issues is on the way to totalitarianism and death”
Robert Maynard Hutchins
“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
