92 Quotes About Controversy

Within any important issue, there are always aspects no one wishes to discuss.

Taxonomy is described sometimes as a science and sometimes as an art, but really it’s a battleground.

How could anything non-controversial be of intellectual interest to grown-ups?

In the controversy that followed the prince's remarks, his most staunch defender was professor John Taylor, a scholar whose work I had last noticed when he gave good reviews to the psychokinetic (or whatever) capacities of the Israeli conjuror and fraud Uri Geller. The heir to the throne seems to possess the ability to surround himself—perhaps by some mysterious ultramagnetic force?—with every moon-faced spoon-bender, shrub-flatterer, and water-diviner within range.

Sometimes a controversial statement can be used to determine where the loyalty of the subject lies.

It is [Simon] Wessely’s often-unconcealed “derision” directed towards people with ME -- a disease from which people die and which appears on Coroners’ death certificates as the cause of death -- which arouses such anger, an anger that is not confined to patients in the UK but encompasses medical scientists in other countries whose decision-makers have come under Wessely’s thrall.

Tell me, Connor, is this the first time you've been pregnant?''What?''Just answer the question, yes or no.''Yes. I mean no! Shut up! What kind of stupid-ass question is that?'Cam smiles. 'You see? You're damned no matter how you answer. By playing both sides, Proactive Citizenry keeps people focused on choosing between two different kinds of unwinding, making people forget that the real question...''Is whether or not someone should be unwound at all.

Don't be afraid of competitors. Competition in your market provides an opportunity to ruffle some feathers and get noticed.

I don’t understand why some marketers insist on using ridiculous jargon that normal people don’t understand - make it simple and watch the sales role in.