Respect for the dignity of others includes treating them as rational creatures capable of being persuadad by rational argument, even in the… — Richard John Neuhaus Copy Share Image
It's much better to have your arguments dismissed because you might be joking than to have your arguments dismissed because you're not… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
The Killing Fields, my character's teachings frame the movie and the argument of his lectures is the challenge of dealing with the… — Sam Waterston Copy Share Image
There would always be a vote. There were always conflicts and arguments for years and years - that's why we're not together… — David Zucker Copy Share Image
The argument for the free market is a complicated and sophisticated one and depends on demonstration of secondary effects. I have confidence… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
My main argument against staying in the E.U. has been the poor economic record of the E.U. as a whole and the… — John Redwood Copy Share Image
The most popular argument in all these papers was the assertion ... that Christianity had grown and prospered in spite of the… — H. J Eckenrode Copy Share Image
More and more, we have been able to present the argument that recruitment of child soldiers is a social breakdown that leads… — Romeo Dallaire Copy Share Image
Never for a moment believe that the great body of the citizens of any State or States can deliberately intend to do… — Andrew Jackson Copy Share Image
“Reader: Will you not admit that you are arguing against yourself? You know that what the English obtained in their own country… — Mahatma Gandhi Mohandas K Copy Share Image
The indispensability argument seeks to assimilate the epistemology of metaphysical statements to the epistemology of statements that are obviously empirical. I think… — Elliott Sober Copy Share Image
Very quickly the lawyers in the Justice Department pulled together a set of recommendations about how we ought to defend the law… — Donald Verrilli Jr Copy Share Image
“The argument against faith is all based upon the rigorous analysis of the scriptures, and not upon the objective observation of the… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
We have a lot of argument about laws but none of it solves the problem. Let's examine what happened, why did we… — Carly Fiorina Copy Share Image
Faith is not a light which scatters all our darkness, but a lamp which guides our steps in the night and suffices… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Mann was profoundly influenced by two philosophers, Schopenhauer and Nietzsche, who returned to the most ancient of all philosophical questions - "How… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
To make the argument that the media has a left- or right-wing, or a liberal or a conservative bias, is like asking… — Al Franken Copy Share Image
If you examined a hundred people who had lost their faith in Christianity, I wonder how many of them would turn out… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Silence is one of the hardest kind of arguments to refute. There is no good substitute for wisdom; but silence is the… — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
I was very young, and I remember this heated, passionate argument and trying to figure out some place called Vietnam, something called… — Bill Huizenga Copy Share Image
While it is useful to rebut charges and get your arguments out in circulation, you have to understand that arguments and evidence… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
When our brain feels too weak to deal with our opponent's objections, our heart answers by casting suspicion on their underlying motives. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“But that kind of thinking . . . you could turn it into an argument for killing anyone at any time. You… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
If you travel in countries like Morocco, and I say that because I have just come from Morocco, if people are shouting… — John Gimlette Copy Share Image
The creation of wealth is certainly not to be despised, but in the long run the only human activities really worthwhile are… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
“To win an argument, rely on logic. To win in life, question logic. If you’re not willing to take some actions that… — Vizi Andrei Copy Share Image
I'm sometimes impatient with young people who demonstrate at my meetings and who don't want an argument, but who just want to… — Pierre Trudeau Copy Share Image
As an explanation of the world materialism has a sort of insane simplicity. It has the quality of a madman's arguments; we… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
There is such a torture, happily unknown to ancient tyranny, as talking a man to death. Marcus Aurelius advises to assent readily… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
When you argue and fight in a relationship, it is simply a test to see if the partnership is strong enough to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It's one thing if you're a part of teams that won five championships. But it's an extremely different argument if you're a… — Troy Aikman Copy Share Image
It seems idle to rail at ambition merely because it is a boundless passion; or rather is not this circumstance an argument… — William Shenstone Copy Share Image
CCTV is seen either as a symbol of Orwellian dystopia or a technology that will lead to crime-free streets and civil behaviour.… — Heather Brooke Copy Share Image
“They were arguing about something very complex and important, and neither of them could refute the other. They did not agree with… — Mikhail Bulgakov Copy Share Image
By all means, avoid words—threats, complaints, justification, narratives, reframing, attempts to win arguments, supplications; avoid words! — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
If Rand Paul is going to go anywhere, he is going to have to expand it beyond merely this argument about where… — Howard Fineman Copy Share Image
I don't think it is impossible to make the case to sensible Americans that far greater restrictions on their so-called gun rights… — Bret Stephens Copy Share Image
The Canteen Boy, the reason you feel bad for him and you can laugh is because he, and I guess a lot… — Adam Sandler Copy Share Image
I was born to argue... I don't know why. I mean, from arguing with my teachers and, on occasions, my parents. I… — Sean Hannity Copy Share Image
Don't raise your voice, improve your argument." [Address at the Nelson Mandela Foundation in Houghton, Johannesburg, South Africa, 23 November 2004] — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image