Quotes about Controversy
When they heard about the resurrection of the dead, some began to mock him, but others said, “We want to hear you again on this topic.”
— Acts 17:32
“This man is persuading the people to worship God in ways contrary to the law,” they said.
— Acts 18:13
We have found this man to be a pestilence, stirring up dissension among the Jews all over the world. He is a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes,
— Acts 24:5
Yet my accusers did not find me debating with anyone in the temple or riling up a crowd in the synagogues or in the city.
— Acts 24:12
As for those who are agitating you, I wish they would proceed to emasculate themselves!
— Galatians 5:12
Political satire became obsolete when they awarded Henry Kissinger the Nobel Peace Prize.
— Tom Lehrer
Religion, for better or for worse, has been politicized in blatant ways that have seldom been equaled in American elections.
— Tony Campolo
Here's a teacher who's talking about Jesus and, oh no, she quotes a bible verse, horror of horrors. The world's breaking and torched and completely messed up, but God forbid some teacher mentions Jesus.
— Travis Thrasher
All argument is against it; but all belief is for it.
— Samuel Johnson
You can find justification for slavery in the Bible. Some say this is what the Bible says and that closes the argument.
— Desmond Tutu
Homosexual behavior has been exploited, and reveled in, and celebrated in art, for millennia.
— John Piper
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