I think what I and most other sociologists of religion wrote in the 1960s about secularization was a mistake. Our underlying argument… — Peter L. Berger Copy Share Image
Typography has one plain duty before it and that is to convey information in writing. No argument or consideration can absolve typography… — Emil Ruder Copy Share Image
Well, I have a message for the nameless , gutless whimperers out there. Quit whining. Unlike some other shows, we here at… — Paul Begala Copy Share Image
“If someone doesn't value evidence, what evidence are you going to provide to prove that they should value it? If someone doesn’t… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
The very metaphor Paul chooses for this decisive moment in his argument shows that what he has in mind is not the… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
“People will say,"there's heaven and hell", and they take it so serious that they look so sorrowful with penitence. I would rather… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
My argument against God was that the universe seemed so cruel and unjust. But how had I got this idea of just… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
It doesn’t much matter what line of argument you take as a woman. If you venture into traditional male territory, the abuse… — Mary Beard Copy Share Image
Her library would have been valuable to a bibliophile except she treated her books execrably. I would rarely open a volume that… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
I had an argument with my students on why they want to present their work in an iBook, it's like your sister… — Louise Wilson Copy Share Image
If, then, the courts of justice are to be considered as the bulwarks of a limited Constitution against legislative encroachments, this consideration… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
In a branch of medicine rife with paradoxes, contradictions, inconsistencies, and illogic, episiotomy crowns them all. The major argument for episiotomy is… — Henci Goer Copy Share Image
The Besicovitch style is architectural. He builds out of simply elements a delicate and complicated architectural structure, usually with a hierarchical plan,… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
Many people suffer all their lives from this oppressive feeling of guilt, the sense of not having lived up to their parents'… — Alice Miller Copy Share Image
That's when it happens. Maybe it was my argument. Maybe it was my scary zeal. Whatever the reason, as soon as Megan… — Cynthia Leitich Smith Copy Share Image
It is this claim to a monopoly of meaning, rather than any special scientific doctrine, that makes science and religion look like… — Mary Midgley Copy Share Image
After 45 years of marriage, when I have an argument with my wife, if we don't agree, we do what she wants.… — Jacques Pepin Copy Share Image
I do not know what arguments mean in reference to any expression of a thought. I delight in telling what I think;… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Interfaith dialogue is a must today, and the first step in establishing it is forgetting the past, ignoring polemical arguments, and giving… — Fethullah Gulen Copy Share Image
In the middle ages of Christianity opposition to the State opinions was hushed. The consequence was, Christianity became loaded with all the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The secular argument, or the liberal argument, is to as much as possible remove taboos so things do not become unmentionable; to… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
The storm had now definitely abated, and what thunder there was now grumbled over more distant hills, like a man saying 'And… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Rap makes the conservative argument about what happens when family life is eroded either by welfare and drugs, or by the stresses… — Shelby Steele Copy Share Image
When a man finds a conclusion agreeable, he accepts it without argument, but when he finds it disagreeable, he will bring against… — Thucydides Copy Share Image
“Just recognize that the words aren’t made of stone and you’re not made of glass. Recognize that you are safe, you are… — Kassandra Dick Copy Share Image
It is only because the majority opinion will always be opposed by some that our knowledge and understanding progress... it is always… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
For those of us who have a ground of knowledge which we cannot transmit to outsiders, it is perhaps more profitable to… — Olive Schreiner Copy Share Image
The argument that someone is a bad man is an inadequate argument for war and certainly an inadequate and unacceptable argument for… — John Major Copy Share Image
Our reports about civilian casualties here, about the resistance of the Iraqi forces, are going back to the United States. It helps… — Peter Arnett Copy Share Image
Sonu Nigam, Farah Khan and I don't have a teleprompter and neither do we plan about what we say. If we break… — Anu Malik Copy Share Image
Discussion and argument are essential parts of science; the greatest talent is the ability to strip a theory until the simple basic… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
If in the middle of an argument I suddenly fall silent it does not mean you have won... No it means you… — Hussein Nishah Copy Share Image
No. But it's like the argument 'don't donate to third-world countries because the money mightn't get to them.' People only say that… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
Man is always something worse or something better than an animal; and a mere argument from animal perfection never touches him at… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“I see all the more reason for debate by the man who does actually 'believe his own lies' - for that debate… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
“Lord Orville seemed by no means to think the Captain worthy an argument, upon a subject concerning which he had neither knowledge… — Frances Burney Copy Share Image
I don't think there's any clever way for the establishment to take Donald Trump down. It's very simple. Another candidate is going… — Dalia Mogahed Copy Share Image
After granting amnesty to illegals 20 years ago, we have gone from 3 million illegals to 11 million illegals. Our government has… — Ric Keller Copy Share Image
The desertion of Jesus, by his followers, furnishes an argument in support of the supposition that he attempted to be king of… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
I thought we would be concerned if he knew how to stay on message, if [Donald] Trump knew how to make the… — Star Jones Copy Share Image