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Quotes About Controversy

Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders, than from the arguments of its opposers.
~ William Penn
As Nachmanides championed the cause of Maimonides against his enemies, so he took up the cause of Alfazi, against Sarachya Halevi and Abraham Ben David, who attacked Alfazi's Talmudic productions.
~ William Rosenau
How like a fawning publican he looks!I hate him for he is a Christian.
~ William Shakespeare
Stemming it with hearts of controversy.
~ William Shakespeare
Thy head is as full of quarrels as an egg is full of meat.
~ William Shakespeare
Conservatism, it was called; and certainly it did conserve the devil admirably.
~ William Still
If the people raise a great howl against my barbarity and cruelty, I will answer that war is war, and not popularity seeking.
~ William Tecumseh Sherman
If I had my choice I would kill every reporter in the world, but I am sure we would be getting reports from Hell before breakfast.
~ William Tecumseh Sherman
I think people need to be educated to the fact that marijuana is not a drug. Marijuana is an herb and a flower. God put it here. If He put it here and He wants it to grow, what gives the government the right to say that God is wrong?
~ Willie Nelson
I think it is just terrible and disgusting how everyone has treated Lance Armstrong, especially after what he achieved, winning seven Tour de France races while on drugs. When I was on drugs, I couldn't even find my bike.
~ Willie Nelson
The qualities of mongrels are rarely admirable, and the mixture of the Arab and negro types has produced a debased and cruel breed, more shocking because they are more intelligent than the primitive savages.
~ Winston Churchill
Everyone is in favor of free speech. Hardly a day passes without its being extolled, but some people's idea of it is that they are free to say what they like, but if anyone else says anything back, that is an outrage.
~ Winston Churchill
Don't talk to me about naval tradition. It's nothing but rum, sodomy and the lash.
~ Winston Churchill
All warfare has its source in this conflict of wills. Before the satanic will rose up to contradict the divine will, there was no war in the universe. The controversy in the universe began with the rebellion of the archangel against God. That rebellion was the beginning of all the fighting that is now taking place among nations, in society, in the family, and in individuals.
~ Witness Lee
If you want to make enemies, try to change something.
~ Woodrow Wilson
Last time I was inside a woman was when I visited the Statue of Liberty.
~ Woody Allen
If Jesus came back and saw what was being done in his name, he'd never stop throwing up.
~ Woody Allen
If Jesus came back and saw what was being done in his name, he'd never stop throwing up.
~ Woody Allen
My words are not that powerful. I started saying in 1985 I don't think we should have a music talking about ni**ers and b*tches and h*es. It had no impact. I've said it. I've repeated it. I still repeat it. To me, that's more damaging than a statue of Robert E. Lee.
~ Wynton Marsalis
Rap Is More Damaging Than Confederate Statues
~ Wynton Marsalis
Sûfizmi politik bir güç olarak devreye sokan ilk sûfi Hallâc'd?r." Louis Massignon
~ Ya?ar Nuri Öztürk
He invaded the Women's Room with a Channel Ten news crew and cub reporter Mike Munro. The issue was voluntary fees. The point was ridicule. When asked to leave the room, Abbott declared for the cameras: "This is a man's room for the moment.
~ David Marr
Yes here's to the founding fathers—slave-owners, British citizens who didn't want to pay taxes...
~ David Mazzucchelli
indignantly, as if I'd just invited everyone back to mine for heroin and
~ David Nicholls