Top Controversy Quotes
The long and distressing controversy over capital punishment is very unfair to anyone meditating murder.
Geoffrey Fisher
Slavery is not the only question which comes up in this controversy. There is a far more important one to you, and that is, what shall be done with the free negro?
Stephen Douglas
Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the danger of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of "crackpot" than the stigma of conformity.
Thomas John Watson, Sr.
That was after Napoleon died because there is still a controversy as to whether Napoleon was poisoned with arsenic. And the French say the British did it and the British say the French did it, but he died before the test for arsenic was available.
Michael Baden
In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.
Buddha
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Nancy Pelosi 
Ambrose Bierce 
Oliver Wendell Holmes 
Felix Frankfurter 
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The long and distressing controversy over capital punishment is very unfair to anyone meditating murder.
Geoffrey Fisher 
73% of people like this quote
Slavery is not the only question which comes up in this controversy. There is a far more important one to you, and that is, what shall be done with the free negro?
Stephen Douglas
70% of people like this quote
Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the danger of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of "crackpot" than the stigma of conformity.
Thomas John Watson, Sr.
66% of people like this quote
That was after Napoleon died because there is still a controversy as to whether Napoleon was poisoned with arsenic. And the French say the British did it and the British say the French did it, but he died before the test for arsenic was available.
Michael Baden
59% of people like this quote
In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.
Buddha
58% of people like this quote
Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the dangers of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of 'crackpot' than the stigma of conformity. And on issues that seem important to you, stand up and be counted at any cost.
Chauncey Depew
57% of people like this quote
No sane person should believe that something is subjective merely because it cannot be settled beyond controversy.
Hilary Putnam
57% of people like this quote
It is not he who gains the exact point in dispute who scores most in controversy - but he who has shown the better temper.
Samuel Butler
56% of people like this quote
I have the New York Daily News to thank for the jeans controversy.
Calvin Klein
56% of people like this quote
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