Definition of Controversy

Controversy

Contention; dispute; debate; discussion; agitation of contrary opinions.

Quarrel; strife; cause of variance; difference.

A suit in law or equity; a question of right.

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Controversy Quotations

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.
Buddha

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?
Stephen Douglas

But we have to pass the bill so you can find out what is in it, away from the fog of the controversy.
Nancy Pelosi

Impartial - unable to perceive any promise of personal advantage from espousing either side of a controversy.
Ambrose Bierce

Controversy equalizes fools and wise men - and the fools know it.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

It is not he who gains the exact point in dispute who scores most in controversy - but he who has shown the better temper.
Samuel Butler

When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest.
William Hazlitt

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.
Conan O'Brien

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

There was no real controversy with All In The Family. That came from the people on the business end.
Norman Lear

I have the New York Daily News to thank for the jeans controversy.
Calvin Klein

The abortion controversy is important for what it says about our stance toward procreation and children altogether.
Leon Kass

For any new technology there is always controversy and there always some fear associated with it. I think that's just the price of being first sometimes.
Hugh Grant

No great advance has been made in science, politics, or religion without controversy.
Lyman Beecher

A lot was happening, plus there were an enormous number of people in the industry that were going to conventions, so it was a pretty fun time. Also there was a lot of controversy and I was at the forefront of some of that.
Todd McFarlane

There was endless controversy as to whether the acts of the New Deal did actually move recovery or retard it, and nothing final could ever come of that bitter debate because it is forever impossible to prove what might have happened in place of what did.
Garet Garrett

Thus, the controversy about the Moral Majority arises not only from its views, but from its name - which, in the minds of many, seems to imply that only one set of public policies is moral and only one majority can possibly be right.
Edward Kennedy

An entertainer should in his public performance keep himself out of any controversy, political or otherwise.
Kate Smith

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.
John Barton

Sometimes its controversy, but we all have our choices that we make.
Solomon Burke

Even though Rush is not me and the situations were very different, I think, in the Rush Limbaugh thing, ESPN was criticized for not acting, and you remember that after a couple days of controversy over Rush.
Gregg Easterbrook

In light of the recent controversy surrounding foreign management of U.S. Ports, a thorough review of foreign management of U.S. airports needs to occur.
Jon Porter

Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the dangers of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of 'crackpot' than the stigma of conformity. And on issues that seem important to you, stand up and be counted at any cost.
Chauncey Depew

For what I wrote that started this whole controversy, I deserved to be criticized, and I felt bad about writing it. I felt bad mainly as a writer and a thinker.
Gregg Easterbrook

I just lead my life as naturally, as normally as I possibly can. But I can't help it if controversy is hounding me day in and day out. I'm quite amazed sometimes by the way they go about it. I grow a beard and it lands up in the editorial in The Times of India.
Amitabh Bachchan

I had hoped that the current presidential campaign debates might educate the public as to what is really involved in the ongoing controversy over campaign financing.
James L. Buckley

You know, this is - one can imagine how life would be different if one body of Congress was controlled by the other party, there would be subpoena power and there would be all - mechanisms to get to the bottom of all sorts of issues of controversy.
Michael Isikoff

I know the pundits and the news media have carried a lot of commentary about cameras in the courtroom, and there's 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

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.
Michael Baden

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Controversy Translations

controversy in Dutch is pennestrijd, controverse, polemiek
controversy in German is Kontroverse
controversy in Swedish is tvist, strid

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