Controversial Quotes - Page 3

About specific social issues, there is a great deal to say that departs very far from truism and is, accordingly, significant and controversial.

Before science, before the eighteenth century, religion answered the questions, and so in the nineteenth century for instance there was a real jostling between science and religion over the truth and this is why Darwin was so controversial.

I get called 'controversial' all the time.

Now that I exist in the mainstream majority, I'm not really so controversial any more, am I? Not really news.

Of all the subjects I have photographed, the most controversial and the one that has moved me the most has to be the prostitutes who are getting on in years. They are true survivors.

I'd like to think I'm going upriver in talking about world-view topics rather than particular political or controversial topics.

Let's put it in perspective at the United States Supreme Court, which hears maybe 60 cases a year, most of the cases are resolved without much dispute. The 10 or 15 that are controversial we all know about, and we hear about. The federal courts hear just a tiny sliver of the cases that go to court in this country. Most of the cases are in the state courts. And most legal issues never go to court. So, the legal system is actually not in jeopardy. At the same time, access to law is in jeopardy.

I have wondered if I might be placed on a watch list of some sort by the government, though. I know that the documentary filmmaker Laura Poitras, who is a friend and who has made documentaries about controversial Middle Eastern terrorists has had trouble at customs when she travels internationally - but nothing like that has happened to me.

I like controversy. The more controversial it gets, the more interesting it is.

I'd be very controversial if I said why, and I don't do controversial anymore. That's too passé. So last year. Being controversial is boring now.

[Michael Flynn is] controversial among many people in the national security establishment, many people in the Republican mainstream. The thing about this appointment that, again, goes to me is most.

Michael Flynn is a very controversial figure for a variety of reasons.

Requiem has been controversial because people dont feel I gave it closure.

My "home" is a controversial topic. I don't exactly have one. I live all over the world.

If something is very, very funny but possibly controversial, if it's truly funny, then it's worth doing. Things aren't worth doing for the sake of being controversial.

To get some of the substance of why [Michael] Flynn [is Defense Adviser] is so controversial.

I'll never tell a lie. I'll never make a misleading statement. I'll never betray the confidence that any of you had in me. And I'll never avoid a controversial issue.

Comprehensive, judicious, evenhanded, original. An Unfinished Life has the sober judgment and nuanced accuracy that make it ring true in all the controversial and tricky parts.

I'm not really interested in courting controversy, but I am interested in exploring issues that other people would deem to be controversial.

I may be controversial, but my allegiance is to people outside the Beltway.

I earnestly urge all our people to unite under the true banner of the Master, to teach the gospel of Jesus Christ so powerfully that no truly converted person could ever be aligned with these controversial concepts and procedures contrary to the Lord's plan of salvation.

Paparazzi will try to get the most controversial picture of you in a compromising position because that's how they're going to sell it.

I know what it's like to have a family and not have insurance and really need it. As a comic, insurance was one of those sacrifices I made early on until I could afford it.

How could anything non-controversial be of intellectual interest to grown-ups?

I still have this image: I can't be controversial, I can't say things.