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Quotes About Controversy

A great philosophy is not one that passes final judgments and establishes ultimate truth. It is one that causes uneasiness and starts commotion.
~ Charles Peguy
President Bush said John Kerry is on both sides of every issue. And Kerry replied, 'No, I'm not ... but there is some truth to that.'
~ Craig Kilborn
... religious controversy does only harm. It destroys humble inquiry after truth, and throws all the energies into an attempt to prove ourselves right-a spirit in which no man gets at truth.
~ Frederick William Robertson
All great Truth first starts as Blasphemy.
~ George Bernard Shaw
Blasphemy and sedition (meaning the truth about Church and State).
~ George Bernard Shaw
I will never apologize to the Jewish community for telling the truth
~ Louis Farrakhan
Much of what I say might sound like it's stirring up trouble, but it's the truth!
~ Malcolm X
A gaffe is a politician inadvertently telling an inconvenient truth.
~ Michael Kinsley
The truth can finally be told: Donald Trump's autism was caused by a vaccination that went terribly wrong; this explains why he can't relate to other people.
~ Michael R. Burch
The Constitution empowers the people to resolve our day's most contentious issues. When judges forget this basic truth, they do a disservice to our democracy and to our constitution.
~ Mike DeWine
I'm an entertainer. Not a journalist or spokesman for anybody. Truth is, a lot of my listeners absolutely hate what I have to say.
~ Neal Boortz
Truth has already ceased to be itself if polemically said.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Bible's been attacked. What is truth? It's relative.
~ Todd Burpo
Bill Clinton is a liar, a perverted kind of a guy anyway, and he is always stroking black folks rather than telling them the truth.
~ Tucker Carlson
It's not worth doing something unless you were doing something that someone, somewhere, would much rather you weren't doing.
~ Terry Pratchett
Every religion in the world has denounced every other religion as a fraud. That proves to me that they all tell the truth - about others.
~ Robert Green Ingersoll
The simple truth is that the implementation of Obamacare has hurt Americans and their health care more than it has helped.
~ Kevin McCarthy
Every exceptional bias against Christianity I find to be evidence for its validity.
~ Criss Jami, Healology
Every great scientific truth goes through three stages. First, people say it conflicts with the Bible. Next they say it has been discovered before. Lastly they say they always believed it.
~ Louis Agassiz
In a meat-eating world, wearing leather for shoes and even clothes, the discussion of fur is childish.
~ Karl Lagerfeld
You don't have to sound like the Sex Pistols, all you have to be is different to provoke such animosity.
~ Michael Azerrad
Damn Russians," Siegel muttered. "I hope I live long enough to see that guy impeached.
~ Michael Connelly
que haber sido. Bosch tuvo que esforzarse para contener su ira. —Bonito cuento de hadas —dijo—. Salvo por la parte de la historia en que la princesa nunca se despierta y el verdadero asesino se queda tan ancho y todo el mundo vive feliz después. Siga contándose este cuento. Quizás algún día pueda vivir con él. Bosch lo agarró con fuerza del brazo y lo condujo hacia la abertura en el seto.
~ Michael Connelly
Historically, the claim of consensus has been the first refuge of scoundrels; it is a way to avoid debate by claiming that the matter is already settled.
~ Michael Crichton