(491 quotes found)
“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 Sr.
“When men understand what each other mean, they see, for the most part, that controversy is either superfluous or hopeless”
John Henry Newman
“The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way. Persecution is used in theology, not in arithmetic.”
Bertrand Russell
“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.”
Conan O'Brien
“The dust of controversy is merely the falsehood flying off.”
Thomas Carlyle
“A lot of controversy over this possible invasion of Iraq. In fact, Nelson Mandela was so upset, he called Bush's dad. How embarrassing, when world leaders start calling your father.”
Jay Leno
“Controversial proposals, once accepted, soon become hallowed.”
Dean Acheson
“It is important, of course, that controversies be settled right, but there are many civil questions which arise between individuals in which it is not so important the controversy be settled one way or another as that it be settled. Of course a settlement of a controversy on a fundamentally wrong principle of law is greatly to be deplored, but there must of necessity be many rules governing the relations between members of the same society that are more important in that their establishment creates a known rule of action than that they proceed on one principle or another. Delay works always for the man with the longest purse.”
William Howard Taft
“The 'teenager' seems to have replaced the Communist as the appropriate target for public controversy and foreboding.”
Edgar Z. Friedenberg
“A man must be a born fool who voluntarily engages in controversy with Mr. Adams on a question of fact. I doubt whether he was ever mistaken in his life.”
Henry Clay
