Quotes about Controversy

Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.

Ah, so you shall be sure to be misunderstood. -Is it so bad, then to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood...

To the baby who dies it makes no difference whether those who refused to protect her were proabortion or merely prochoice.

To suppose that the eye, with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for the correction of spherical and chromatic aberration, could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest degree. - Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species

He was constantly defending his Communist friends to his right-wing enemies and his right-wing friends to his Communist enemies, and he was thoroughly detested by both groups, who never defended him to anyone because they thought he was a dope.

Third, the New Atheists reserve their most venomous attacks for Christianity. While they do criticize Buddhism, Islam, Mormonism, and other religions, their target is clearly the biblical God.

Controversy is bad for the spirit, however enlivening to the wits.

The conversation on global warming has been stalled because a shrinking group of denialists fly into a rage when it's mentioned.

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.'

Homosexuality is not about love, it's not about family, and it's not about civil rights.

I don't know what Trump has to do to lose his supporters. It's like a religion. He's a school bully.

I didn't realize that so many people watch 'Bigg Boss' and are actually supporting Samir.