Quotes About Controversy

It is clear that thought is not free if the profession of certain opinions makes it impossible to earn a living. It is clear also that thought is not free if all the arguments on one side of a controversy are perpetually presented as attractively as possible, while the arguments on the other side can only be discovered by diligent search. Both these obstacles exist in every large country known to me, except China, which is the last refuge of freedom.

My objections to Marx are of two sorts: one, that he was muddle-headed; and the other, that his thinking was almost entirely inspired by hatred.

The idea that the poor should have leisure has always been shocking to the rich.

It must be admitted, for the reasons already stated, that logical principles are known to us, and cannot be themselves proved by experience, since all proof presupposes them. In this, therefore, which was the most important point of the controversy, the rationalists were in the right. On the other hand, even that part of our knowledge which is logically independent of experience (in the sense that experience cannot prove it) is yet elicited and caused by experience.

Change is scientific, 'progress' is ethical. Change is indubitable whereas progress is a matter of controversy.

The quarrel between Hume and Rousseau is symbolic: Rousseau was mad but influential; Hume was sane but had no followers.

They saw a large crowd around them and scribes disputing with them… . He asked, "What are you arguing with them about?" Mark 9:14, 16

In order to accuse Him, they asked Him, "Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath?" Matthew 12:10

It's been clear for some time that FBI Director Comey has lost the confidence of Republicans, Democrats, and broader institutions, and his removal as FBI Director was probably overdue.

Republicans just don't get that their idea of scandal is not what the average American thinks is a serious scandal.

As a presidential candidate, Trump seems heaven-sent just to make fools out of Republicans.

The pro-life, pro-family Republicans are now pro-neonatal detention and deportation. It isn't enough to drive out the people not born here; now they want to drive out the ones that were.

I'm not gonna ruin my reputation with the blacks no more.

Football sometimes has a bad reputation. Some of that is deserved... and some of it isn't.

I have a reputation for infamy.

I never thought I'd have to be fighting for my reputation and the poor horse's reputation.

In 2016, HB 2 cast a dark shadow over our state. Not only was it wrong in and of itself, but it cost us jobs. It cost us money. And it cost us our reputation.

'Requiem' has been controversial because people don't feel I gave it closure.

Evolution and creationism both require faith. It's just a matter of where you choose to place that faith.

We all know by now that Barack Obama is not a patriot. After all, he doesn't always wear a flag pin, and he objects to the idea that he should be required to in order to run for office.

I might be in favor of national healthcare if it required all Democrats to get their heads examined.

What is fetus farming? Simply put, it is the creation and development of a human fetus for the purposes of later killing it for research or for harvesting its organs.

Evil is everywhere. But to believe that this is a country that resembles the Jim Crow-era is ludicrous and disingenuous.

I resent all organised religions.