Quotes about Controversy
There's been a concerted effort to steal Christmas.
— Jerry Falwell
The Obamacare roll-out was an epic failure.
— Jesse Lee Peterson
In all matters of opinion, our adversaries are insane.
— Oscar Wilde
They're a pack of dimpled fuckwits and you can tell them I said so.
— Cormac McCarthy
The dirtiest book of all is the expurgated book.
— Walt Whitman
He seemed evidently more fond of controversy than of truth, and the whole turn of his conversation indicated that he derived his religious security rather from the adoption of a party, than from the implantation of a new principle.
— Hannah More
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.'
— Ray Comfort
The secret to success is to offend the greatest number of people.
— George Bernard Shaw
The angriest person in a controversy is the one most liable to be in the wrong.
— John Tillotson
When there's something in the Bible that churches don't like, they call it legalism.
— Leonard Ravenhill
If there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls for attachment than any other it is the principle of free thought, not free thought for those who agree with us but freedom for the thought that we hate.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
It is outrageous to utter the name of Jesus Christ and live in Judaism.
— Ignatius of Antioch