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Controversy Quotes


"Michael Jackson was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. It caused quite a controversy, because his nose isn't eligible for another fifteen years."


"He was definitely known as the foremost man killer in the West; however there's controversy about virtually every killing that he was known to have been involved in."


"Controversy is only dreaded by the advocates of error."


"I'm tired of the whole anti gun thing. Saying that Guns cause Murders is like saying Steering Wheels cause car wrecks."


"Controversy is a last resort for the talentless."


"I am a shocker. I like to create controversy. It's my trademark."


"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."


"The long and distressing controversy over capital punishment is very unfair to anyone meditating murder."


"It can't hurt, publicity is publicity, controversy and all that, it's all good."


"Anybody can decide a question if only a single principle is in controversy."


"I think the Bravo test is really important for a number of reasons. It's kind of symbolic. It raises a lot of the issues that are related to the whole controversy over nuclear testing."


"The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way."


"I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child well nursed is at a year old a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled; and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee or a ragout."
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