Controversy Quotes

As for what it's against - the story is against those who pervert and misuse religion, or any other kind of doctrine with a holy book and a priesthood and an apparatus of power that wields unchallengeable authority, in order to dominate and suppress human freedoms.

~ Philip Pullman

A writer is one who communicates ideas and emotions people want to communicate but aren't quite sure how, or even if, they should communicate them.

~ Criss Jami

Christianity, like genius, is one of the hardest concepts to forgive. We hear what we want to hear and accept what we want to accept, for the most part, simply because there is nothing more offensive than feeling like you have to re-evaluate your own train of thought and purpose in life. You have to die to an extent in your hunger for faith, for wisdom, and quite frankly, most people aren't ready to die.

~ Criss Jami

For wordsmiths and masters of words, without necessarily being harsh with words, the words have a tendency to shoot straight to the hearts of people, and this either deeply touches them or deeply angers them. Like the apostles in all their loving controversies are those who are masters of words while combining this gift with truth.

~ Criss Jami

Some concepts are so incredibly risky they take an honest fool to try to articulate them.

~ Criss Jami

At first, they'll only dislike what you say, but the more correct you start sounding the more they'll dislike you.

~ Criss Jami

So tell me, since it makes no factual difference to you and you can't prove the question either way, which story do you prefer? Which is the better story, the story with animals or the story without animals?' Mr. Okamoto: 'That's an interesting question?' Mr. Chiba: 'The story with animals.' Mr. Okamoto: 'Yes. The story with animals is the better story.' Pi Patel: 'Thank you. And so it goes with God.

~ Yann Martel

Everyone claims to be okay with freedom of religion, but the moment you mention God there is a strange tension that fills the air. If there was a 6th sense, that would be it.

~ Criss Jami

Peaceful disputes are maintained when men sincerely believe that they are morally, logically correct about the issues at hand. It is when neither side is really certain that wars are instigated.

~ Criss Jami

I don't see how you can write anything of value if you don't offend someone.

~ Marvin Harris

If you have to say or do something controversial, aim so that people will hate that they love it and not love that they hate it.

~ Criss Jami

I have always thought that if women's hair posed so many problems, God would certainly have made us bald.

~ Marjane Satrapi

The love of conflict is most evident when opposing forces join sides to defeat the peacemaker.

~ Criss Jami

No one man can terrorize a whole nation unless we are all his accomplices.

~ Edward R. Murrow

Those who stand for different causes during different generations often experience the same oppositions and the same difficulties as those of the previous and the next generations. That is the basis of history repeating itself.

~ Criss Jami

People who always want to be at convenient places won’t make a change at controversial places.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

People say graffiti is ugly, irresponsible and childish... but that's only if it's done properly.

~ Banksy

Controversial' as we all know, is often a euphemism for 'interesting and intelligent.

~ Kevin Smith

Controversy is a last resort for the talentless.

~ Criss Jami

Does giving your piece of mind, bring a peace of mind? Or is it better to be silent and let the war inside subside?

~ Anthony Liccione

This is almost always the case: A piece of art receives its f(r)ame when found offensive.

~ Criss Jami

Keep your finger on the pulse of society, take controversies with a grain of salt, lick your finger and then lift it to the wind; always know what is going on, my friend, so this world can never steer you wrong again.

~ Criss Jami

During the flames of controversy, opinions, mass disputes, conflict, and world news, sometimes the most precious, refreshing, peaceful words to hear amidst all the chaos are simply and humbly 'I don't know.

~ Criss Jami

A rebel adult often seems like a glorious savior, whereas a rebel child often seems like a little devil.

~ Criss Jami

It is the nature of physics to hear the loudest of mouths over the most comprehensive ones.

~ Criss Jami

The crazy creatives are the creatives who never go completely mad. They aren't so easily disheartened by the seemingly endless amounts of scrutiny that creative individuals tend to receive because they, like insanity, are the ones who feed off of opposition and negative feedback and manage to continue along with a healthy ambition. It is the crazy that teaches us to use our gifts wisely and own all the attackers.

~ Criss Jami

I'm starting to think that my level of intrigue outweighs my fear of controversy.

~ Criss Jami

Bitter people are not interested in what you say, but what you hide.

~ Shannon L. Alder

I always ask myself one question: what is human? What does it mean to be human? Maybe people will consider my new films brutal again. But this violence is just a reflection of what they really are, of what is in each one of us to certain degree.

~ Kim Ki-Duk

Prejudice in this country is like chapters in a book. Chapter One: Hating the Africans and Indians. Chapter Two: Don't forget the Irish. Chapter Three: Polish jokes...... Hispanics? Latinos? Whatever you call us? Maybe we're Chapter Fifteen or Sixteen on the East Coast, but we're the preface in the West.

~ Emilie Richards

Don't judge a man by his controversies. Anyone could find him or herself dealing with issues. What matters is how they deal with it.

~ Constance Chuks Friday

Unable to understand why you think so, when you chose a different path.

~ Sujata Mondal

Stigma's power lies in silence. The silence that persists when discussion and action should be taking place. The silence one imposes on another for speaking up on a taboo subject, branding them with a label until they are rendered mute or preferably unheard.

~ M.b. Dallocchio

Takes birth in me,also, dies in debris.I am a Potpourri.A mix of dead petals,effusing divine fragrance.Walking on the journey,of controversy.I am a Potpourri.

~ Jasleen Kaur Gumber

Bring on the controversy. I write real life. It's harsh and sometimes gritty, but it's real. Why should we tip toe around that?

~ Shandy L. Kurth

If a man isn't willing to take some risk for his opinions, either his opinions are no good or he's no good

~ Ezra Pound

If you believe that I'm a cop killer, you believe David Bowie is an astronaut.

~ Ice-T

Many a time, we let go of some really good ideas just because we feel they are too controversial.

~ Abhishek Ratna

Trying to be offensive for the sole purpose of being offensive should always deem one the least offensive of offenders.

~ Criss Jami

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