Quotes about Controversy
No great advance has been made in science, politics, or religion without controversy.
— Lyman Beecher
In our day, you can mock religion in public and even get funds for doing it. But you can't show respect for religion in public - or you risk being hauled into court.
— Charles Colson
Whoever pushes America's sex button must be prepared for sirens and alarms. Whatever else we do in our lives will be drowned out by them.
— Erica Jong
A hit dog will holler.
— Andrew Gillum
If there should prove to be one real, living Free State Democrat in Kansas, I suggest that it might be well to catch him and stuff and preserve his skin as an interesting specimen of that soon-to-be-extinct variety of the genus Democrat.
— Abraham Lincoln
There are people I know who love President Trump and think that he's the greatest thing that's ever happened to America. I understand those people. I'm not shocked by them. I defend their right to love him. But I do think character and rhetoric matter.
— Meghan McCain
The British press are a group of unremitting scumbags. And sometimes they use that scumbaggery to good ends, and often not.
— John Oliver
The Democratic Party is evil.
— Jesse Lee Peterson
Charles Wesley fully sided with the Arminianism of his brother John, and abused his poetic gift by writing poor doggerel against Calvinism.847 He had a bitter controversy on the subject with Toplady, who was a devout Calvinist. But their theological controversy is dead and buried, while their devotional hymns still live, and Calvinists and Methodists heartily join in singing Wesley's "Jesus, Lover of my Soul," and Toplady's "Rock of Ages, cleft for me.
— Philip Schaff
Here's why I cannot vote for Rudy Giuliani. He's pro-abortion. He's never repudiated gay marriage in New York City or at least the civil unions in New York City. He's called a champion of gay rights. Rudy is opposed to school choice. He's in favor of open borders.
— James Dobson
Everything I say, I expect backlash from it.
— Donovan McNabb
I hate when pastors have a gay son and then they become pro-gay.
— Pete Holmes