My argument is limited to saying that a major new medium changes the structure of discourse; it does so by encouraging certain… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
I cannot understand antiabortion arguments that center on the sanctity of life. As a species, we’ve fairly comprehensively demonstrated that we don’t… — Caitlin Moran Copy Share Image
I took a sheet of paper, divided it into debt and credit columns on the arguments for and against God and immortality.… — Joseph McCabe Copy Share Image
[T]he next time you hear serious-sounding people explaining the need for fiscal austerity, try to parse their argument. Almost surely, you'll discover… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
We did respect [Bernard Leach], although we also were willing to challenge ideas and at least put forth our feelings about the… — Warren MacKenzie Copy Share Image
On another front of the category-error argument are the insufferable fogeys who think the [Nobel] award is an outrage upon literature itself.… — David Bennun Copy Share Image
I don’t know why liberals want to disarm the law-abiding population, but I do know that not a single argument proffered stands… — Paul Craig Roberts Copy Share Image
“Forgive me, madam," he said lightly, amused, "but waiting to make love to you again is straining my nerves." She scoffed but… — Adele Ashworth Copy Share Image
Sam Harris fearlessly describes a moral and intellectual emergency precipitated by religious fantasies--misguided beliefs that create suffering, that rationalize violence, that have… — Janna Levin Copy Share Image
Small quarrels and tensions were expected because of our new environment. Every relationship has them. Each quarrel was soon forgotten and floated… — Craig Stone Copy Share Image
If you are to go to Christ, do not put on your good doings and feelings, or you will get nothing; go… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
I read five books on the Constitution. My favorite was 'Plain, Honest Men' by Richard Beeman. I went on a science jag… — Denis O'Hare Copy Share Image
There's a lot of people that I disagree with that I think I could have interesting conversations with. What I don't want… — Joe Rogan Copy Share Image
In supporting argument for segregation, Paul [the apostol] addresses the people in his epistle to the Colossians, and he tells them how… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
“The peculiarity of the evidence of mathematical truths is, that all the argument is on one side. There are no objections, and… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
If there is such a thing as philosophical progress, then why - unlike scientific progress - is it so invisible? Philosophical progress… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
Suffer not yourselves to be betrayed with a kiss. Ask yourselves how this gracious reception of our petition comports with those warlike… — Patrick Henry Copy Share Image
The argument is not between adding features and simplicity, between adding capability and usability. The real issue is about design: designing things… — Donald A. Norman Copy Share Image
The great merit of Stephen Gould's account of the disastrous history of phychometrics is that he shifts the argument from a sterile… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
“I have no need for money or a manor; I would be perfectly content living in a hut so long as I… — M.A. Kuzniar Copy Share Image
“The worst part, the worst part, was that Lord de Worde was never wrong. It was not a position he understood in… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
As we breathe and live, have a conversation, and you look in someone's eyes, and you see a sunset or have an… — Jared Leto Copy Share Image
It's funny that Chairman Mao's great hero was Napoleon, because Napoleon started out as a revolutionary for the underdogs and then made… — Robert Wyatt Copy Share Image
The New York Times columnist, Thomas Friedman, cited Haqqani to make the argument that Guantánamo must be shut down. He wrote:“Husain Haqqani,… — Husain Haqqani Copy Share Image
Don't get divorced after your first argument! I have a lot of friends that have one fight and that's it, they get… — Kelly Ripa Copy Share Image
Parliament is for discussion. Parliament is to show dissent. Parliament is to give an argument for one's opposition, to present an argument… — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
Afghanistan would have been difficult enough without Iraq. Iraq made it impossible. The argument that had we just focused on Afghanistan we'd… — Michael Hastings Copy Share Image
You can win as long as you chose your battles. You can win more arguments then you might think as a writer,… — Shane Black Copy Share Image
If the Christian church is to move responsibly towards the future, it must restore or renew its ties with its past. Contemporary… — Ronald H. Nash Copy Share Image
“The Bible is not an argument. It is a record of human experience. The point is not to prove that it’s the… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
The Bankers' New Clothes makes a simple, powerful argument: that banks need to raise more capital. It is entirely persuasive that the… — Diane Coyle Copy Share Image
I think that as poets, we can get away with stuff because we can ride on the melt of metaphor. We cover… — David Biespiel Copy Share Image
I'm generally slow to anger, quick to forgive, and I take in information before making decisions. So no matter how controversial the… — Peter Blair Henry Copy Share Image
Democracy destroys the unity of the Rumanian nation, dividing it among political parties, making Rumanians hate one another, and thus exposing a… — Corneliu Zelea Codreanu Copy Share Image
How is this any different than the big boat argument of people when it came to African-Americans after the Civil War, decided,… — Chris Matthews Copy Share Image
Convince us of our errors of doctrine, if we have any, by reason, by logical arguments, or by the Word of God,… — Orson Pratt Copy Share Image
I am a lifelong career artist, which itself is a bit of a miracle. It's really challenging to be a career artist.… — Kimberly Peirce Copy Share Image
What irritated her most was that they kept brushing off her arguments with patronizing smiles, making her feel like a teenager being… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
So how do theists respond to arguments like this? [The Argument from Evil] They say there is a reason for evil, but… — Quentin Smith Copy Share Image
Another argument of hope may be drawn from this-that some of the inventions already known are such as before they were discovered… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image