Controversial Quotes

It's better to be controversial for the right reasons, than to be popular for the wrong reasons.

No great advance has ever been made in science, politics, or religion, without controversy.

I don't see how you can write anything of value if you don't offend someone.

I've never tried to be controversial. The truth is controversial enough.

If journalism is good, it is controversial, by its nature.

I always put in one controversial item. It makes people talk.

Innovators are inevitably controversial.

It is a virtual reflex for governments to plead security concerns when they undertake any controversial action, often as a pretext for something else.

I've never intended to be controversial but it's very easy to be controversial in pop music because nobody ever is.

If everyone thinks you're doing the right thing, then everyone would be doing it. Have a controversial strategy.

I'm controversial. My friends either dislike me or hate me

When you become controversial, when you want to promote new ideas, you need to be the face of it and not be scared.

I am really the most controversial artist in the world.

Bad news drives out good news. The irrational is more controversial than the rational. Concurrence can no longer compete with dissent. One minute of Eldridge Cleaver is worth ten minutes of Roy Wilkins. The labor crises settled at the negotiating table is nothing compared to the confrontation that results in a strike ... normality has become the nemesis of network news.

Ask two people to tell you anything, you’ll get two versions. Even easy things like directions, let alone important or semi-controversial topics like why a fight started or what a person was generally like. If you don’t know something for yourself, you just can’t be sure.

I like gold because it is a stabilizer; it is an insurance policy.

A good joke provides tension, and then, release of that tension. You build the tension by saying things that are controversial. The release is the laugh. The bigger the surprise or insight in your joke, the bigger the laugh.

When I am no longer controversial, I will no longer be important

I admire Madonna because she always did whatever she felt like doing. She went through some controversial periods when people rejected her, but she kept on reinventing herself.

Global warming is controversial, of course, but the controversy is mainly over whether human activity is driving it.

It's never my intent to be controversial but I don't shy away from it.

I am not afraid that the book will be controversial, I'm afraid it will not be controversial.

I don't mind being controversial. Even Jesus wasn't loved in his day.

There are people who can talk sensibly about a controversial issue; they're called humorists.

I think that as I continue to write, my writing I hope will become more controversial and more provocative.