Quotes About Controversy

The sea-green Incorruptible [Robespierre].

In a controversy, the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.

Polemical divinity," says he to Dr. Moore in 1787, "about this time was putting the country half mad; and I, ambitious of shining in conversation-parties on Sundays, at funerals, etc., used to puzzle Calvinism with so much heat and indiscretion, that I raised a hue-and-cry of heresy against me, which has not ceased to this hour.

Even so, his friend the journalist Malcolm Muggeridge would conclude that "he was at heart strongly anti-Semitic." At

One gets the impression that the mere words 'Socialism' and 'Communism' draw towards them with magnetic force every fruit-juice drinker, nudist, sandal-wearer, sex-maniac, Quaker, 'Nature Cure' quack, pacifist and feminist in England.

Controversy is not necessarily a bad thing. It's a good thing at times.

But I do think its necessary to have debates.

Before Angelina Jolie became a humanitarian, she was best known for wearing a vial of blood around her neck and kissing her brother.

When people agree with you, they'll just like it and keep it moving, but when people don't agree with you, that's when they come for your whole neck.

Christianity takes this beating that I really don't understand and yet you can't say anything negative about the Muslims because that's horrible, you can't say anything negative about other faiths.

I've been arrested several times. I've been known to dress in ludicrous fashions. I've also built a career out of negative reviews.

When you're a sports figure and people dislike you, they're going to look for the negatives.

Negativity gets attention and gets clicks.

Let's face it - negativity sells records.

We used to have a bull. A real bull. At that time, Jennifer Lopez was my neighbor. God bless her, she took it. But other neighbors did not like it, that we have a bull.

I played Nelson Mandela in one thing for laughs - and I did it because this thing had come round from the BBC that we couldn't do it any more.

There is no nepotism in the Hindi film industry.

'Rednecks' always made me nervous to play, but I'm glad I wrote it and I continue to play it. It's just that the language is so rough.

When you go through some controversy and you see your face on the news in a negative way for 48 hours... you doubt yourself. And your friends make the difference. They become a safety net that come in and say, 'That's not the case.' And the relationships that you've built... come to the fore.

Netanyahu is no king, his government sows division and incitement.

Netanyahu personally is leading the campaign against the Arabs.

We need to stop the Islamisation of the Netherlands.

MSNBC got rid of so many black people, I thought Boko Haram was running that network.

For years, the defenders of television have argued that the networks are only giving the people what they want. That might be true. But so is the Medellin cartel.