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Last updated on November 18, 2024.
One of the greatest values of controversy is its revealing nature. The real issues at stake come into the open and have the possibility of being reconciled.
What's being pushed is to have Darwinism critiqued, to teach there's a controversy. Intelligent design itself does not have any content.
A person in the business of defending criminal cases is going to live in controversy all of his or her life.
Whether that's positive or not, people are talking about the Old Vic Theater again with passion and commitment and controversy and debate.
My mum is West African, from Senegal; my dad is from Grenada. There was a huge controversy about them getting together.
The abortion controversy is important for what it says about our stance toward procreation and children altogether.
First, I hate all theological controversy: it is wearing to the temper, and is I believe (at all events when viva voce) worse than useless.
Historically, science-fiction and fantasy literature is no stranger to controversy, but it has learned how to adapt and endure.
From the outset, however, this whole controversy has been plagued by tacit assumptions, very often of a philosophical rather than a physical character.
Of all people who engage in controversy, we, who are called Calvinists, are most expressly bound by our own principles to the exercise of gentleness and moderation.
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.
My stress on the truth in sexual stereotypes and on the biologic basis of sex differences is sure to cause controversy.
The very purpose of a bill of rights is to withdraw certain subjects from...political controversy, to place them beyond the reach of majorities.
In spite of the evidence for the disorder-induced M-I transition as inferred from the transport and optical measurements, the metallic state of conjugated polymers has been a subject of controversy.
Personally, when a controversy erupts, we decide first whether it requires clarification and, secondly, if it receives notice from authorities and the establishment, we submit responses to their queries.
I am as fearless as the Rani of Jhansi and I will fight against all those people who are dragging me in controversy.
In the field of controversy I always pity the moderate party, who stand on the open middle ground exposed to the fire of both sides.
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.
Controversy equalizes fools and wise men in the same way - and the fools know it.
When men understand what each other mean, they see, for the most part, that controversy is either superfluous or hopeless
Whether thats positive or not, people are talking about the Old Vic Theater again with passion and commitment and controversy and debate.
I don't like courting controversy because I don't like people not liking me.
Embrace controversy. It gives you a platform. It is a teacher, a clarifier, and your friend, especially if you are trying to make change.
I don't shy from controversy. I'm telling stories, and I'll tell whatever story seems like it wants to be told.
Someone said I have had my popularity diminished by getting into the controversy of national education. Perhaps they are right.
Impartial - unable to perceive any promise of personal advantage from espousing either side of a controversy.
In a period of such obsessing political controversy as the present, I believe that I am that strange animal, the individual without any politics at all.
I love the game and everything that goes with actually playing. What I don't like so much are the interviews, the controversy, and all the external stuff.
There is in fact a controversy over Darwin's theory. Clearly both theories have religious implications. But this is not about God.
I don't seek controversy. I don't seek to antagonize. Sometimes it happens, but I'm not there to argue politics.
In politics, the reaction to a controversy is very often more enlightening and important than the details of the allegations themselves.
We don't back down from controversy - we fan the fires. People think we go out of our way to create it, but we don't.
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)
When controversy calls, corporations can be far more responsive than politicians. The market votes every day, after all.
An entertainer should in his public performance keep himself out of any controversy, political or otherwise.
My personality and nothing from my past would have ever predicted that I would be at the center of a controversy.
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?
Promises controversy on a scale not seen since Samuel Huntington’s Clash of Civilizations sought to reframe a new world order.
The very fact that doctrine is hewn from bitter controversy and tested through time is sufficient reason to make them a focus of theology.
I feel like great TED Talks are ones that are a little bit subject to interpretation, that do provoke further conversation - and potentially controversy.
I have been told by a member of the board of one of Canada's most prominent literary magazines that a submission of mine once caused a great deal of controversy.
I love performing in front of an audience. I like the questions; I like controversy.
Doubtless there are times when controversy becomes a necessary evil. But let us remember that it is an evil.
Global warming is controversial, of course, but the controversy is mainly over whether human activity is driving it.
The long and distressing controversy over capital punishment is very unfair to anyone meditating murder.
I discovered something amazing, which has caused a lot of controversy - the fountain of youth. I have to keep it a secret!
No secret that for some years - long before my time - Komen was dealing with a controversy regarding Planned Parenthood grants.
Fox News's coverage of 9/11 and the war in Iraq improved its ratings, demonstrated its influence, and intensified the controversy over its practices.
The late William Jennings Bryan, L.L.D., always had one great advantage in controversy; he was never burdened with an understanding of his opponent's case.
I long ago tired of politicians who never say anything, adhere to their talking points, and avoid all controversy.
Once 'Uyir' created a controversy, I had several offers coming my way with prominence to my character. However, I avoided them purposefully.
Political success is often dependent on the ability to be heard above the din of controversy and debate and to set a course with one's own compass.
I had problems with certain players at Arsenal, especially one, whose name I will not say because I don't want to feed the controversy.
I saw the GamerGate controversy as a way to expand 8chan. I wanted to unseat 4chan and to me it didn't matter how it happened.
It also seems beyond controversy that moral responsibilities are greater to the extent that people "have the resources, the training, the facilities and opportunities to speak and act effectively."
I feel my role is to push boundaries. I don't like things to be safe and sedentary. So controversy is the cross I have to bear.
American journalists and politicians made a perfect spectacle of themselves in discussing the Abu Ghraib prison controversy.
To be fair, the hardest part of my week is live-tweeting 'The Edge & Christian Show,' because I just can't keep up with the tremendous response and the controversy.
No sane person should believe that something is subjective merely because it cannot be settled beyond controversy.
I think controversy has this allusion of being controversial but it's totally not, which is why I'm trying to get away from it because it's just easy and automatic.
