Controversy Quotes - Page 15

• I regret exceedingly that the disputes between the protestants and Roman Catholics should be carried to the serious alarming height mentioned in your letters. Religious controversies are always productive of more acrimony and irreconcilable hatreds than those which spring from any other cause; and I was not without hopes that the enlightened and liberal policy of the present age would have put an effectual stop to contentions of this kind.

  George Washington

  Religious, Regret, Spring

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• Our errors and our controversies, in the sphere of morality, arise sometimes from looking on men as though they could be altogether bad, or altogether good.

  Luc de Clapiers

  Men, Errors, Spheres

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• 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.

  Lewis Carroll

  Hate, Believe, Events

  Lewis Carroll, Morton Norton Cohen, Roger Lancelyn Green (1979). “The letters of Lewis Carroll”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• No sane person should believe that something is subjective merely because it cannot be settled beyond controversy.

  Hilary Putnam

  Believe, Subjectivity, Should

  Hilary Putnam (1987). “The many faces of realism”, Open Court Pub Co

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• But I hope that by the decision and authority of wise princes that sometime devout and learned men from the churches of other nations and of ours may be summoned together to deliberate about all the controversies and that there be handed down to posterity one harmonious, true, and clear form of doctrine, without any ambiguity. Meanwhile, as far as possible, let us encourage the union of our churches with measured advice.

  Philipp Melanchthon

  Wise, Men, Decision

  "The Peter Martyr Library: Dialogue on the Two Natures in Christ" translated and edited by John Patrick Donnelly, Pietro Martire Vermigli, Thomas Jefferson University Press, vol. 2, (p. 167), 1995.

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• The recent medical controversy over whether vaccinations cause autism reveals a habit of human cognition — thinking anecdotally comes naturally, whereas thinking scientifically does not.

  Michael Shermer

  Thinking, Autism, Doe

  "How Anecdotal Evidence Can Undermine Scientific Results". www.scientificamerican.com. August 01, 2008.

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• The teenager seems to have replaced the Communist as the appropriate target for public controversy and foreboding.

  Edgar Friedenberg

  Inspirational, Teenage, Target

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• This is business: they don't care about your lyrics;
  The better you sell, the better future for their children.
  Controversy sells, so they support conflict,
  Makes more progress, means more profit.
  An artist gets killed, they say they're 'so sorry,'
  Meanwhile, they tell you the date of his next project.
  What a life...death made them more profit:
  Record companies get paid for your drama.

  Cormega

  Children, Sorry, Drama

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• Controversy What controversy This is reality. What I see is that no matter if you're a conservative or a liberal or whatever side you stand on, this is the reality of the situation - that people's families and their young kids are being affected.

  Billie Joe Armstrong

  Kids, Reality, People

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• That is why the Aethenian law makers so decreed it a crime for any citizen to shrink from controversy. I am asking your help in the tremendous task of informing and alerting the American people. Confident that with your help, man will be what he was born to be, free and independent.

  John F. Kennedy

  Independent, Men, Law

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• I would say the special experience of American wartime policy in the last 40 years, from Vietnam on, is that the war itself became controversial in the country and that the most important thing we need in the current situation is, whatever disagreements there may be on tactics, that the legitimacy of the war itself does not become a subject of controversy. We have to start with the assumption, obviously, that whatever administration is conducting a war wants to end it.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Country, War, Years

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• The organizers first job is to create the issues or problems, and organizations must be based on many issues. The organizer must first rub raw the resentments of the people of the community; fan the latent hostilities of many of the people to the point of overt expression. He must search out controversy and issues, rather than avoid them, for unless there is controversy people are not concerned enough to act. . . . An organizer must stir up dissatisfaction and discontent.

  Saul Alinsky

  Jobs, Expression, Organization

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• I know the pundits and the news media have carried a lot of commentary about cameras in the courtroom, and theres a lot of controversy about it as a result of the Simpson case. But I have not had enough time to step back and enough time to evaluate that.

  Lance Ito

  Media, Cameras, Enough Time

  "Ito: 'What you see is what's there'". www.cnn.com. October 24, 1995.

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• A pure heart won't get us out of conflict and controversy. It may well be the very thing that gets us into it.

  John Hagee

  Heart, May, Conflict

  Twitter post from Jun 29, 2016

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• When men understand what each other mean, they see, for the most part, that controversy is either superfluous or hopeless

  John Henry Newman

  Mean, Men, Hopeless

  'Faith and Reason, contrasted as Habits of Mind' (Epiphany, 1839), in 'Oxford University Sermons' (1843) no. 10

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• I cannot, whilst President of the United States, descend to enter into a newspaper controversy.

  James K. Polk

  President, United States, Newspapers

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• These are the days when men of all social disciplines and all political faiths seek the comfortable and the accepted; when the man of controversy is looked upon as a disturbing influence; when originality is taken to be a mark of instability; and when, in minor modification of the original parable, the bland lead the bland.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Taken, Men, Discipline

  'The Affluent Society' (1958) ch. 1, sect. 3

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• Rediscovering the controversies that occupied early Christianity sharpens our awareness of the major issue in the whole debate, then and now: What is the source of religious authority? For the Christian the question takes more specific form: What is the relation between the authority of ones own experience and that claimed for the scriptures, the ritual and the clergy?

  Elaine Pagels

  Christian, Religious, Issues

  Elaine Pagels (2004). “The Gnostic Gospels”, p.199, Random House

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• Jesus' life was a storm of controversy. The apostles, like the prophets before them, could hardly go a day without controversy. Paul said that he debated daily in the marketplace. To avoid controversy is to avoid Christ. We can have peace, but it is a servile and carnal peace where truth is slain in the streets.

  R. C. Sproul

  Jesus, Storm, Christ

  R. C. Sproul (2011). “Essential Truths of the Christian Faith”, p.18, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• That's the heart of it: My shows were not that controversial with the American people. They were controversial with the people who think for the American people.

  Norman Lear

  Heart, Thinking, People

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. April 27, 2005.

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• 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.

  Charles Eisenstein

  War, Facts, Sides

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• ... 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.

  Frederick William Robertson

  Religious, Humble, Men

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• To all new truths, or renovation of old truths, it must be as in the ark between the destroyed and the about-to-be renovated world. The raven must be sent out before the dove, and ominous controversy must precede peace and the olive wreath.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Truth, Ravens, Ark

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1836). “The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge”, p.342

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• I'll get you naked by the end of this song.

  Justin Timberlake

  Song, Naked, Ends

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• If there's something strange in your neighborhood, who you gonna call? Ghost Busters.

  Ray Parker, Jr.

  Strange, Ghost, Busters

  Song: Ghost Busters

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