Quotes About Controversy

After 'Humshakals,' the Sajid Khan bashing which followed, that was a little unnecessary. Genuinely.

Perhaps Obama is often slow to nail controversies because he needs time to live inside them for a while in his head. It's unnerving for the rest of us, but even the haters, one feels, are made to think more deeply than they'd like before they return to the bickering and the games.

One of the problems with defending free speech is you often have to defend people that you find to be outrageous and unpleasant and disgusting.

Exposing any subject that is unpleasant or controversial means risking judgment and making some people feel uncomfortable.

It's true that the Federal Reserve faces a lot of political pressure and is unpopular in many circles.

I know I'm unpopular.

My role isn't to be politically smart. My role is to do what's right under the constitution. And if that's politically unpopular, so be it.

I lived near Santa Cruz for ten years, and the whole time, it bothered me what an exclusionary definition of 'inclusion' was in force. Social censure was applied to those who expressed unpopular or uncomfortable ideas.

When I did 'Baby Got Back,' I did it to be unpopular.

Winston Churchill was one of the most unpopular politicians in the late '30s and by the mid-'40s he was considered one the greatest statesmen, possibly of all time. I'm not comparing myself. I'm just saying that controversies come and go, but the important thing is sticking to your principles and persevering through those controversies.

Trump might become deeply unpopular in the way that I, with some people, am deeply unpopular, but that doesn't mean that we don't get things done. You can be unpopular and successful.

Professors who hold unpopular positions or state inconvenient facts are now considered psychologically toxic.

The monarchy has almost always been unpopular.

Whether it's intentional or not, Trump regularly makes news for unprecedented and nonpresidential behavior.

The Trump phenomenon might feel both interminable and unprecedented to Republican elites, but of course it isn't.

Woman suffrage is an unjust, unreasonable, unspiritual abnormality. It is a hard, undigested, tasteless, devitalized proposition. It is a half-fledged, unmusical, Promethean abomination. It is a quack bolus to reduce masculinity even by the obliteration of femininity.

Evolution is unobservable. It's based on blind faith in a few dry bones and on unreliable dating systems in which the gullible trust. Kids should be allowed to make up their own minds about this issue, and not be censored to 'one side is all we will let you hear.'

In April 2006, a Dutch court ordered that I leave my safe-home that I was renting from the State. The judge concluded that my neighbors had a right to argue that they felt unsafe because of my presence in the building.

Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the dangers of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of 'crackpot' than the stigma of conformity. And on issues that seem important to you, stand up and be counted at any cost.

In California, there are huge problems because of dams. I'm against big dams, per se, because I think that they are economically unfeasible. They're ecologically unsustainable. And they're hugely undemocratic.

How any government could promote the Vardy academies in the North-East of England is absolutely beyond me. Tony Blair defends them on grounds of diversity, but it should be unthinkable in the 21st century to have a school whose head of science believes the world is less than 10,000 years old.

Simply put, a Trump presidency is unthinkable.

There can be no settlement of a great cause without discussion, and people will not discuss a cause until their attention is drawn to it.

It is categorically untrue that Cambridge Analytica has never used Facebook data.