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I am continually fascinated at the difficulty intelligent people have in distinguishing what is controversial from what is merely offensive. By Nora Ephron Offensive Continually Fascinated Difficulty Intelligent

Civil confusions often spring from trifles but decide great issues. By Aristotle. Civil Issues Confusions Spring Trifles

The angriest person in a controversy is the one most liable to be in the wrong. By John Tillotson Wrong Angriest Person Controversy Liable

I have never entered into any controversy in defense of my philosophical opinions; I leave them to take their chance in the world. If they are right, truth and experience will support them; if wrong, they ought to be refuted and rejected. Disputes are apt to sour one's temper and disturb one's quiet. By Benjamin Franklin Opinions World Entered Controversy Defense

Debate is angular, conversation circular and radiant of the underlying unity. By Amos Bronson Alcott Debate Angular Conversation Unity Circular

Glory to he who brings dispute. By Jean Rouch Glory Dispute Brings

Doubtless there are times when controversy becomes a necessary evil. But let us remember that it is an evil. By Arthur Penrhyn Stanley Evil Doubtless Times Controversy Remember

Mr. and Mrs. Muirhead fought continuously and as bitterly as vipers. Their arguments were baroque, stately and, although frequently extraordinary, never enlightening. By Joy Williams Mrs Muirhead Vipers Fought Continuously

For both parties in a controversy, the most disagreeable way of retaliating is to be vexed and silent; for the aggressor usually regards the silence as a sign of contempt. By Friedrich Nietzsche Controversy Silent Contempt Parties Disagreeable

A long dispute means both parties are wrong. By Voltaire Wrong Long Dispute Parties

The mock rationality of the debate conceals the arbitrariness of the will and power at work in its resolution. It By Alasdair Macintyre Resolution Mock Rationality Debate Conceals

I love it when my books cause controversy, when people argue violently about the ending. By Joanne Harris Controversy Ending Love Books People

Conflict is drama. By Michael Shurtleff Conflict Drama

The struggle for subjectivity is a battle to win the right to have access to difference, variation and metamorphosis. By Charles J. Stivale Difference Variation Metamorphosis Struggle Subjectivity

Literature is disputed territory. By Salman Rushdie Literature Territory Disputed

Conflict. Conflict. Where art thou conflict? By Buffy Andrews Conflict Art Thou

Quarrel with a friend - and you are both wrong. By Laozi Quarrel Friend Wrong

In this sacred Dispensation conflict and contention are in no wise permitted. By Abdu'l- Baha Dispensation Permitted Sacred Conflict Contention

Out of anger comes controversy, out of controversy comes conversation, out of conversation comes action. By Tupac Shakur Action Controversy Conversation Anger

You can see it on the Internet: There's an argument going on continually about, 'What is folk music?' And I don't really want to get involved in that. It's an endless argument, a 'How many angels can dance on the head of a pin?' kind of argument. By Roger Mcguinn Internet Music Argument Continually Folk

What I am after in this dispute is to me something serious, necessary, and indeed eternal, something of such a kind and such importance that it ought to be asserted and defended to the death, even if the whole world had not only to be thrown into strife and confusion, but actually to return to total chaos and be reduced to nothingness. By Martin Luther Eternal Death Confusion Nothingness Dispute

Someone who has actually tasted truth is not contentious for truth. Someone who is considered by people to be zealous for truth has not yet learned what truth is really like; once he has truly learned it, he will cease from zealousness on its behalf. By Isaac Of Nineveh Truth Tasted Contentious Learned Behalf

Confrontational is when I pull my gun. Argumentative is when I pull the trigger. By Nelson Demille Confrontational Gun Pull Argumentative Trigger

There is no dispute managed without passion, and yet there is scarce a dispute worth a passion. By Thomas Sherlock Passion Dispute Managed Scarce Worth

argument often turns petty, regardless of its import. By Robert J. Crane Argument Petty Import Turns

A problem that presents itself as a dilemma carries an unfortunate prescription: to argue instead of act. By Elizabeth Janeway Prescription Act Problem Presents Dilemma

If art is singular expression, then by nature, the best art is controversial. But when art stirs debate for reasons besides its artistic integrity, that's when things get bent. By John Ridley Art Expression Nature Controversial Singular

To constitute a dispute there must be two parties. To understand it well, both parties and all the circumstances must be fully heard; and to accommodate the differences, temper and mutual forbearance are requisite. By George Washington Parties Constitute Dispute Heard Differences

From the outset, however, this whole controversy has been plagued by tacit assumptions, very often of a philosophical rather than a physical character ... By David Bohm Outset Assumptions Character Controversy Plagued

It's like you came to a controversy and a ball game breaks out. By Matt Keough Controversy Ball Game Breaks

There is too great a tendency (perhaps encouraged by popular journalism) to deal with the dramatic moments, forgetting that these are not always the most significant moments ... To find the significant rather than the dramatic features of industrial controversy, of a disagreement in regard to policy on board of directors or between managers, is essential to integrative business policies. By Mary Parker Follett Moments Tendency Journalism Forgetting Dramatic

I don't like confrontation. By Terry Bradshaw Confrontation

People argue themselves out of their pleasures By Jude Morgan People Pleasures Argue

You know how much I am inclined to explain all disputes among philosophical schools as merely verbal disputes or at least to derive them originally from verbal disputes. By Moses Mendelssohn Disputes Verbal Inclined Explain Philosophical

Arguing is a game that two can play at. But it is a strange game in that neither opponent ever wins. By Benjamin Franklin Arguing Game Play Wins Strange

There is giant untapped potential in disagreement, especially if the disagreement is between two or more thoughtful people By Ray Dalio People Disagreement Giant Untapped Potential

Conflict is the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. It instigates invention. It shocks us out of sheep-like passivity, and sets us at noting and contriving ... conflict is a sine qua non of reflection and ingenuity. By John Dewey Thought Conflict Gadfly Memory Stirs

A few more Rules may fitly be given here, for correspondence that has unfortunately become controversial.One is, don't repeat yourself. When once you have said your say, fully and clearly, on a certain point, and have failed to convince your friend, drop that subject: to repeat your arguments, all over again, will simply lead to his doing the same; and so you will go on, like a Circulating Decimal. Did you ever know a Circulating Decimal come to an end? By Lewis Carroll Rules Circulating Decimal Repeat Fitly

When two warring people face each other, the war of words jumps beyond the subject. The subject remains no more central to the arguments. By Girdhar Joshi Subject Warring People Face War

The beginning of philosophy is the recognition of the conflict between opinions. By Epictetus Opinions Beginning Philosophy Recognition Conflict

Difference in opinions has cost many millions of lives: for instance, whether flesh be bread, or bread be flesh; whether the juice of a certain berry be blood or wine. By Jonathan Swift Flesh Bread Difference Lives Instance

There is no force in high school more powerful than one person's blunt disagreement. By Francesca Zappia Disagreement Force High School Powerful

My books have all generated controversy. By Helen Fielding Controversy Books Generated

I have this idiot name tag which says 'controversial.' By Maurice Sendak Controversial Idiot Tag

No sane person should believe that something is subjective merely because it cannot be settled beyond controversy. By Hilary Putnam Controversy Sane Person Subjective Settled

Arguing is the Olympics of talking By Stewart Stafford Olympics Arguing Talking

We shall seek debate without division or rancour. By Johann Lamont Rancour Seek Debate Division

Scholars will argue with each other about everything. By Peter Jennings Scholars Argue

History is furious debate informed by evidence and reason. By James W. Loewen History Reason Furious Debate Informed

Many of our most serious conflicts are conflicts within ourselves. Those who suppose their judgements are always consistent are unreflective or dogmatic. By John Rawls Conflicts Dogmatic Suppose Judgements Consistent

A civilization in which there is not a continuous controversy about important issues is on the way to totalitarianism and death By Robert M. Hutchins Death Civilization Continuous Controversy Important

The Internet is a politically contested space. By Rebecca Mackinnon Internet Space Politically Contested

We allow for complexity, and therefore make accommodations for disagreement and its patient resolution, in most of the big areas of life: international trade, immigration, oncology . . . But when it comes to domestic existence, we tend to make a fateful presumption of ease, which in turn inspires in us a tense aversion to protracted negotiation. We would think it peculiar indeed to devote a two-day By Alain De Botton Immigration Oncology Complexity Resolution Life

The prevailing attitude of the speakers was one of heavy disagreement with a number of things which the reader had not said. By Ronald Knox Prevailing Attitude Speakers Heavy Disagreement

You can disagree but do not fight. By Lailah Gifty Akita Fight Disagree

Hang on, I know what might be going on here. Maybe everyone involved in this dispute is awful. By David Mitchell Hang Awful Involved Dispute

Contention murders creativity and stupidity is in enmity with freethinking. By Joel T. Mcgrath Contention Freethinking Murders Creativity Stupidity

There will always be conflict in a world where an "I'm right, means you're wrong" mentality exists because the world is inelegantly viewed as black and white. One possible path beyond this mental miasma is to make the effort to try and understand alternate perspectives on the matters we hold most dear. By Chris Rhyss Edwards World Wrong Mentality White Conflict

Arguing with somebody is never pleasant, but sometimes it is useful and necessary to do so. By Lemony Snicket Arguing Pleasant

I don't seek controversy. I don't seek to antagonize. Sometimes it happens, but I'm not there to argue politics. By Marc Maron Controversy Seek Antagonize Politics Argue

Fur is a contentious issue. Meat is a contentious issue. GMOs are a contentious issue. I think this whole thing going on about whether or not products should be labeled if they have GMOs in them - I, as a consumer, would like to know if I'm eating GMO food. If I choose to buy it then it's my choice. By Billy Corgan Issue Contentious Fur Gmos Meat

I despair of persuading people to drop the familiar and comforting tactic of dichotomy. Perhaps, instead, we might expand the framework of debates by seeking other dichotomies more appropriate than, or simply different from, the conventional divisions. All dichotomies are simplifications, but the rendition of a conflict along differing axes of several orthogonal dichotomies might provide an amplitude of proper intellectual space without forcing us to forgo our most comforting tool of thought. By Stephen Jay Gould Dichotomy Dichotomies Despair Persuading People

When we lift our voices tiny molehills of difference become great mountains of conflict. By Gordon B. Hinckley Conflict Lift Voices Tiny Molehills

Don't fight the problem, decide it. By George C. Marshall Problem Decide Fight

The passionate controversies of one era are viewed as sterile preoccupations by another, for knowledge alters what we seek as well as what we find. By Freda Adler Find Passionate Controversies Era Viewed

Everyone wants to argue. Everyone does. Everyone needs to. By Gerry Spence Argue

I'm not one of your knockabout, knuckle-scarred, Internet-controversy-courting book critics. Occasionally I stumble into controversy accidentally, but not because I enjoy it. It's probably just because I'm a weird person. By Lev Grossman Knucklescarred Knockabout Book Critics Occasionally

Controversy for the sake of controversy is sin. Controversy for the sake of truth is a divine command. By Walter Martin Sake Controversy Sin Command Truth

In the old days, 'controversial' in a relationship meant same-sex or mixed races. By Sam Taylor-Johnson Controversial Days Races Relationship Meant

You can't have a motion without a debate. By Hugh Dalton Debate Motion

I'm not a controversial person. I'm not trying to polarise people. By Russell Tovey Person Controversial People Polarise

And therefore, as when there is a controversy in an account, the parties must by their own accord, set up for right Reason, the Reason of some Arbitrator, or Judge, to whose sentence, they will both stand, or their controversy must either come to blows, or be undecided, for want of a right Reason constituted by Nature; so is it also in all debates of what kind soever. By Thomas Hobbes Reason Arbitrator Judge Nature Controversy

When they argue they're like greyhounds chasing the mechanical rabbit. You go past the same scenery time after time, but you don't see the landscape. You see the rabbit. By Stephen King Rabbit Argue Greyhounds Chasing Mechanical

It is not he who gains the exact point in dispute who scores most in controversy - but he who has shown the better temper. By Samuel Butler Controversy Temper Gains Exact Point

Can one consider controversy without falling into it? By Elizabeth Janeway Controversy Falling

I've never intended to be controversial, but it's very easy to be controversial in pop music because nobody ever is. By Morrissey Controversial Intended Easy Pop Music

In highly charged political matters, one person's ambiguity may be another person's truth. By Richard Mottram Matters Truth Person Highly Charged

My career has been riddled with controversy, which I never fully understand. By Liz Phair Controversy Understand Career Riddled Fully

When we face problems or disagreements today, we have to arrive at solutions through dialogue. Dialogue is the only appropriate method. One-sided victory is no longer acceptable. We must work to resolve conflicts in a spirit of reconciliation, always keeping others' interests in mind. By Dalai Lama Today Dialogue Face Problems Disagreements

Opinions sway; facts remain unswerving. By Matshona Dhliwayo Opinions Sway Facts Unswerving Remain

I don't care about controversies. I am a young woman with an opinion about certain things. I can't be diplomatic. I am a feminist, and as long as I can be the voice of hundreds of girls out there, I will speak my mind. I don't care what other people think. By Sonam Kapoor Controversies Care Things Young Woman

Uncertainty cripples any serious and firm resolve and results in opinions swaying from one side to the other, leaving any decision that is made weak and half done, even when it comes to the most essential measures of self-preservation. By Adolf Hitler Uncertainty Leaving Selfpreservation Cripples Firm

What are the important issues there? Khalil asked. What do left and right disagree on? As I began to answer him, as I enumerated the divisive issues, I felt faintly embarrassed at how tawdry they were: abortion, homosexuality, gun control - Khalil looked confused by that last term, and Farouq said des armes. By Teju Cole Khalil Important Issues Asked Abortion

Conflict is the very essence of life. By Mary Roberts Rinehart Conflict Life Essence

How many a dispute could have been deflated into a single paragraph if the disputants had dared to define their terms By Aristotle. Terms Dispute Deflated Single Paragraph

I worked with a group of people who argued day and night - professors, officials, the Minister of Finance - but there were decisions that I had to make. By Shimon Peres Professors Officials Finance Minister Night

Page 25 "But if we accept the legitimacy of the subject nevertheless, then a new and contentious series of questions at once opens up. By Alain De Botton Page Accept Legitimacy Subject Contentious

I've learned that disagreements with James often occur because one of us knows something that the other does not. Usually it's not something obvious; it's a hidden assumption. Sometimes you have to keep digging - keep arguing, but I mean that in a friendly, searching-for-the-truth kind of way - to figure out what the hidden assumption is, because once you expose it, then the right answer suddenly comes into clear focus. Given this experience, I was comfortable disagreeing with James, fully expecting that we'd eventually work it out. In this case, the discussion went on for many months. (This willingness to cooperatively disagree, working together to try and get to the right solution, is an aspect of our culture that I try to promote.) By Dave Hitz James Learned Disagreements Occur Hidden

I have sometimes thought that all philosophical disputes could be reduced to an argument between the partisans of "prickles" and the partisans of "goo." The prickly people are tough-minded, rigorous, and precise, and like to stress differences and divisions between things. They prefer particles to waves, and discontinuity to continuity. The gooey people are tender-minded romanticists who love wide generalizations and grand syntheses. They stress the underlying unities, and are inclined to pantheism and mysticism. Waves suit them much better than particles as the ultimate constituents of matter, and discontinuities jar their teeth like a compressed-air drill. By Alan W. Watts Partisans Prickles Goo Thought Philosophical

Argumentative exhibitions bring issues to life in a way that very much irritates traditional curators who want to see their pictures valued for themselves. By Jonathan Miller Argumentative Exhibitions Bring Issues Life

Figure out. Fight. By Waseem Latif Fight Figure

Disagreement may be the shortest cut between two minds. By Khalil Gibran Disagreement Minds Shortest Cut

In debate, especially when the dispute is hot and supercharged and freighted with ill will, I have always been the flabbiest of contenders. My voice breaks, becomes shrill; I sweat. I get a sloppy half-grin on my face. Worse, my mind wanders and then takes flight while the logic I possess in fair measure under more placid circumstances abandons my brain like an ungrateful urchin. By William Styron Debate Contenders Dispute Hot Supercharged

Arguing face to face can be a powerful thing, and done deftly and persistently, it can reinforce and build respect itself, even across major differences. By Anthony Weston Face Arguing Thing Persistently Differences

In quarrels such as these not ours to intervene. By Virgil Intervene Quarrels

Decentralisation is controversial - but that's fine. We should be fearless about having a debate. By Charles Kennedy Decentralisation Controversial Fine Debate Fearless

Have nothing to do with foolish, ignorant q controversies; you know that they breed quarrels. By Anonymous Foolish Ignorant Controversies Quarrels Breed

The tension between 'yes' and 'no', between 'I can' and 'I cannot', makes us feel that, in so many instances, human life is an interminable debate with one's self. By Anatole Broyard Yes Makes Instances Human Tension

Conflict is the essence of the self. By J.krishnamurti Conflict Essence

But hey, controversy - well, it hasn't hurt me in 50 years. By Joe Arpaio Controversy Years Hey Hurt