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Some people want to have controversy between the races. By Dennis Rodman Races People Controversy

Conflict sometimes produces results, but more often than not it produces confusion at the level of everybody on the same track. By Ciaran Hinds Conflict Results Track Produces Confusion

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

Conflict is drama. By Michael Shurtleff Conflict Drama

Think of controversy as the necessary mating ritual before various good ideas can give birth to progress. By Lois Kelly Progress Controversy Mating Ritual Good

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

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 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

The unknowable creates the greatest controversies. By Mason Cooley Controversies Unknowable Creates Greatest

If you get involved in a controversy, then that becomes the mesmerizing event that people remember you by. By Newt Gingrich Controversy Involved Mesmerizing Event People

Innovators are inevitably controversial. By Eva Le Gallienne Innovators Controversial Inevitably

Intellectual controversies tend to be like dog fights without the teeth, in which the barking not the biting does the damage. By Luis Fernando Verissimo Intellectual Teeth Damage Controversies Tend

My whole life is controversy. What can I do? I'm like Britney Spears! By Andrej Pejic Controversy Life Spears Britney

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

There was no real controversy with All In The Family. That came from the people on the business end. By Norman Lear Family Real Controversy End People

Over the course of my career, I have come to accept that some of my more provocative work courts controversy, and as an artist, I value the discourse that arises from this. I can only hope for this discourse to be informed by fact, so that whether you love my work or hate it, you give it, and me, the benefit of the truth. By Terry Richardson Career Controversy Artist Work Discourse

My intention ... isn't to create controversy. By Brett Favre Intention Controversy Create

I'm a controversial guy. By Newt Gingrich Guy Controversial

I don't like conflict. By Nigella Lawson Conflict

I really thank my parents for giving me the good sense to not get into anything wrong. There are many people around who like controversies, and I actually wonder how do they do it. I don't have the courage to get into controversies. There are people who love it; I find it silly. By Saina Nehwal Wrong Controversies Parents Giving Good

There is no shortage of disputes. By Howard Raiffa Disputes Shortage

I looked up the word "scandal" in my dictionary last night. No wonder there has been such a fuss. By Paula M. Hunter Scandal Word Night Looked Dictionary

The controversy was that Chad Dawson thought he was in an MMA fight and not a boxing match. By Bernard Hopkins Chad Dawson Mma Match Controversy

Religious controversy does only harm. It destroys humble inquiry after truth, and throws all the energies into an attempt to prove ourselves right-a spirit in which no man gets at truth. By Frederick William Robertson Religious Harm Truth Controversy Destroys

I've never tried to be controversial. The truth is controversial enough. By Keith Green Controversial Truth

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

The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way. By Bertrand Russell Savage Controversies Matters Good Evidence

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

Questions are the heart and soul of constructive conflict. They open up the exploration, bring in new information, and reframe debate. When By Margaret Heffernan Questions Conflict Heart Soul Constructive

Wars of opinion, as they have been the most destructive, are also the most disgraceful of conflicts. By Charles Caleb Colton Wars Opinion Destructive Conflicts Disgraceful

The reality is that being controversial generates attention for a little while, but it's usually not good for your career in the long term. By Alexandra Levit Term Reality Controversial Generates Attention

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

The dust of controversy is merely the falsehood flying off. By Thomas Carlyle Dust Controversy Falsehood Flying

Bring on the controversy. I write real life. It's harsh and sometimes gritty, but it's real. Why should we tip toe around that? By Shandy L. Kurth Bring Controversy Real Life Gritty

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

I get called 'controversial' all the time. By Michael Moore Controversial Called Time

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

I don't want to be one of these filmmakers that hit you over the head with my agenda or my opinion. I just want to take you down the 50-yard line and let you form your own opinion of what the controversy [of a movie] is about. By Ric Roman Waugh Opinion Filmmakers Hit Head Agenda

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 cannot shy away from controversy. I don't know if it's my Irish blood, but I love it. By Gina Mccarthy Controversy Shy Irish Blood Love

Soon we had tumbled into a most fundamental debate. How can different religions coexist? By Mitch Albom Debate Tumbled Fundamental Coexist Religions

Throughout my political life, I've not been a stranger to controversy. By David Blunkett Life Controversy Political Stranger

The frustrating part of being tagged 'controversial' is people go looking for trouble where there isn't any to look for. By Salman Rushdie Controversial Tagged Frustrating Part People

It's better to be controversial for the right reasons, than to be popular for the wrong reasons. By Shimon Peres Reasons Controversial Popular Wrong

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

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

Only conflict is news, and By Gloria Steinem Conflict

Contention is inseparable from creating knowledge. It is not contention we should try to avoid, but discourses that attempt to suppress contention. By Joyce Appleby Knowledge Contention Inseparable Creating Avoid

Conflict is drama, and how people deal with conflict shows you the kind of people they are. By Stephen Moyer Drama Conflict People Deal Shows

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

Well I think people think sex is controversial. Not always, but certainly it's something to be discussed. By Liam Neeson Controversial People Sex Discussed

When men understand what each other mean, they see, for the most part, that controversy is either superfluous or hopeless By John Henry Newman Part Hopeless Men Understand Controversy

The thing that strikes me more and more, is the extraordinary viciousness and dishonesty of political controversy in our time. I don't mean merely that controversies are acrimonious. They ought to be that when they are on serious subjects. I mean that almost nobody seems to feel that an opponent deserves a fair hearing or that the objective truth matters as long as you can score a neat debating point. By George Orwell Time Thing Strikes Extraordinary Viciousness

You never want conflict. But sometimes conflict is inevitable. By Richard Seymour Conflict Inevitable

Disagreement produces debate but dissent produces dissension. By Daniel J. Boorstin Disagreement Dissension Produces Debate Dissent

If you have the temerity to try to dramatize a theme that involves any particular social controversy currently extant ... then you're in deep trouble. By Rod Serling Extant Temerity Dramatize Theme Involves

The day-to-day making of policy is arguing all the time. You're trying to get the right approach and the right answer, and there are moments that aren't very pleasant. But in the end, you look at the overall product. By Madeleine Albright Making Time Policy Arguing Answer

So there was great clashes when, you know, if you believe you shouldn't remove your shoes and someone's taking their shoes off, how can they do this? That actually was such a big clash in this case that they had to put a curtain down the middle of where they would worship. By Michael Emerson Shoes Great Clashes Remove Taking

I don't have time to think about the false controversy, By Susan Rice Controversy Time False

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

Whenever I write anything that sets up controversy its meaning is distorted almost instantly. Even the editorial writers of newspapers seem to be unable to understand the plainest sentence. By H.l. Mencken Instantly Write Sets Controversy Meaning

Literature is disputed territory. By Salman Rushdie Literature Territory Disputed

I think it's best to keep the controversy on the pages and not in our relationships. By Kayla Curry Relationships Controversy Pages

I have never in my career embarked on a journey towards controversy. I have never deliberately set a flame. By Amanda Palmer Controversy Career Embarked Journey Flame

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

Controversial' as we all know, is often a euphemism for 'interesting and intelligent. By Kevin Smith Controversial Interesting Intelligent Euphemism

It becomes easier to handle controversies when you are a part of the film industry. I just take them witha smile. By Katrina Kaif Industry Easier Handle Controversies Part

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

Such insignificant differences as a few hundred years here or there were the motive for long, long controversies, both public and academic, which almost always resulted in the violent breakup of personal relationships and even in mortal enmities. By Jose Saramago Controversies Academic Enmities Long Insignificant

When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest. By William Hazlitt Subject Ceases Controversy Interest Thing

Conflict follows wrongdoing as surely as flies follow the herd. By Doc Holliday Conflict Herd Wrongdoing Surely Flies

Large corporations have the ability to distract people with controversy that just distracts people from what's great about the movie or what works about the movie. By Peter Landesman People Movie Large Corporations Ability

One of the most fruitless, irritating wastes in the world is arguing-the contentious, endless kind of arguing that is akin to quarreling, and causes feuding in families and among friends, and leaves resentful feeling in homes, in hearts, in businesses and professions, and in all kinds of gatherings in public and private places, and in all relationships of life-and with so little that it ever seems to settle! By Richard L. Evans Fruitless Irritating Contentious Endless Quarreling

The industry had realized you could create the impression of controversy simply by asking questions By Naomi Oreskes Questions Industry Realized Create Impression

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

My stress on the truth in sexual stereotypes and on the biologic basis of sex differences is sure to cause controversy. By Camille Paglia Controversy Stress Truth Sexual Stereotypes

I don't want to create controversy; I just have an opinion on things, and there is nothing wrong with stating your opinion if you are asked. Everyone wants that right, and because you are famous doesn't mean you have less of a right. By John Travolta Opinion Controversy Things Asked Create

It is difficult to discriminate the voice of truth from amid the clamor raised by heated partisans. By Friedrich Schiller Partisans Difficult Discriminate Voice Truth

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

[On generating controversy] Heat sells better than light. By Jen Lawrence Heat Controversy Light Generating Sells

In a controversy, the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves. By Thomas Carlyle Striving Controversy Truth Instant Feel

I never seek controversy or foresee it for my pictures. I take a personal stand, and perhaps because my films are on contemporary subjects, people do not share my point of view. By Otto Preminger Pictures Seek Controversy Foresee Stand

The most terrible fight is not when there is one opinion against another, the most terrible is when two men say the same thing and fight about the interpretation, and this interpretation involves a difference of quality. By Soren Kierkegaard Terrible Fight Interpretation Quality Opinion

It is the role of good journalism to take on powerful abusers, and when powerful abusers are taken on, there's always a bad reaction. So we see that controversy, and we believe that is a good thing to engage in. By Julian Assange Powerful Abusers Reaction Good Role

Disagreement is a rare achievement, and most of what is called disagreement is simply confusion. By John Courtney Murray Disagreement Achievement Confusion Rare Called

When both sides of a controversy revel in the defeat and humiliation of the other side, in fact they are on the same side: the side of war. By Charles Eisenstein Side War Controversy Revel Defeat

Twittering among themselves in some obscure but vehement argument. By Steven Erikson Twittering Argument Obscure Vehement

Men argue. Nature acts. By Voltaire Men Argue Nature Acts

Opinion has caused more trouble on this little earth than plagues or earthquakes. By Voltaire Opinion Earthquakes Caused Trouble Earth

While we meant to invite debate about some ways the word was used this year, that nuance was lost, and we regret that its inclusion has become a distraction from the important debate over equality and justice. By Nancy Gibbs Year Lost Justice Debate Meant

I don't want to sound disingenuous here - controversy is obviously good for business, especially if your business is satire. And it does amplify the discussion - in my view, a good thing. By Garry Trudeau Controversy Satire Business Good Sound

Young people are having a hard time with what's reality and what's fantasy these days ... We created discussion. It wasn't to create controversy for sale's sake, but rather it was my obligation to use the medium for discussion. Nobody's discussing the grown-up topics; they are faking and fronting. By Chuck D Young Days Discussion People Hard

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

The daughter of debate That still discord doth sow. By Elizabeth I Sow Daughter Debate Discord Doth

We sometimes disputed, and very fond we were of argument, and very desirous of confuting one another, which disputatious turn, by the way, is apt to become a very bad habit, making people often extremely disagreeable in company by the contradiction that is necessary to bring it into practice; and thence, besides souring and spoiling the conversation, is productive of disgusts and, perhaps enmities where you may have occasion for friendship. I had caught it by reading my father's books of dispute about religion. Persons of good sense, I have since observed, seldom fall into it, except lawyers, university men, and men of all sorts that have been bred at Edinborough. By Benjamin Franklin Disputed Argument Turn Habit Making

A silly row which got out of hand. By Bill Vaughan Hand Silly Row

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

How could an argument soothe or settle a controversy when every word is a nest for a bird of doubt? (meaning of words as inferences) By Edmond Jabes Doubt Argument Soothe Settle Controversy

It is pretty hard to find the right result to a controversial issue. By Max Baucus Issue Pretty Hard Find Result

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