#controversy

I'm not an activist; I don't look for controversy. I'm not a political person, but I'm a person with compassion. I care passionately about equal rights. I care about human rights. I care about animal rights. ↗

— Ellen DeGeneres

#activist #animal #animal rights #care #compassion

Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the danger of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of "crackpot" than the stigma of conformity. ↗

— Thomas John Watson, Sr.

#controversy #crackpot #danger #expose #fear

To me the notion that Palestinians are actually Jews is, I think, quite revelatory and very radical and a possible bridge that has been ignored, I think, in this entire controversy and there's ample evidence to support it. ↗

— Lawrence Wright

#ample #been #bridge #controversy #entire

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

#any #associated #being #controversy #fear

David Mamet we all know is a great screenplay writer and playwright and a great director. If you like him, you like him. If you hate him, you really hate him. He's someone who's into controversy, you know what I mean? That's David Mamet. ↗

— Tom Hardy

#david #director #great #hate #him

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

— William Hazlitt

#controversy #interest #subject #thing

Controversy equalizes fools and wise men - and the fools know it. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#fools #know #men #wise #wise men

I think you don't do work for controversy alone, and whenever you do new work which people don't understand and they say it is done to create controversy. ↗

— M. F. Husain

#controversy #create #done #i #i think

It is the role of good journalism to take on powerful abusers, and when powerful abusers are taken on, there's always a bad reaction. So we see that controversy, and we believe that is a good thing to engage in. ↗

— Julian Assange

#abusers #always #bad #believe #controversy

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

#board #canada #caused #controversy #deal