We manage to swallow flesh only because we do not think of the cruel and sinful thing that we do. There are… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
I'm much more concerned about what artists think. But as you get older you tend to get much more isolated; you're not… — Brice Marden Copy Share Image
“Whenever somebody challenges me with the notion that killing carrots is no different to killing cows, I make a point of pointing… — Mango Wodzak Copy Share Image
The best kids are going to become the best. But the best thing about it is that you're going to learn lessons… — Carl Lewis Copy Share Image
It's easy to sell good news like this, and the authors confidently rely on classic fallacious arguments. They argue by declaration, which… — Wendy Kaminer Copy Share Image
Individual storytelling is incredibly powerful. We as journalists know intuitively what scientists of the brain are discovering through brain scans, which is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is triple ultra forbidden to respond to criticism with violence. There are a very few injunctions in the human art of… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
I think the mother of all arguments against eating meat now is the climate change argument. Methane is a much more powerful… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
On your principles, you should never yield; you should be prepared to be defeated. Nobody likes to be defeated, but you should… — Jesse Helms Copy Share Image
“Causing any damage or harm to one party in order to help another party is not justice, and likewise, attacking all feminine… — Christine de Pizan Copy Share Image
It is impossible to combat enthusiasm with reason; for though it makes a show of resistance, it soon eludes the pressure, refers… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
The journalistic 'I' is an overreliable narrator, a functionary to whom crucial tasks of narration and argument and tone have been entrusted,… — Janet Malcolm Copy Share Image
“How then to enforce peace? Not by reason, certainly, nor by education. If a man could not look at the fact of… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Network news accustoms audiences to assertion not argument. Over time, it reinforces the notion that politics is about visceral identification and apposition,… — Kathleen Hall Jamieson Copy Share Image
Teller contended, not implausibly, that hydrogen bombs keep the peace, or at least prevent thermonuclear war, because the consequences of warfare between… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Our current gun culture simply ensures that more and more domestic disputes will end in the ultimate tragedy, and that more convenience-store… — Bob Costas Copy Share Image
You might argue on utilitarian grounds that the best way for the world to work is for everybody to take care of… — Paul Bloom Copy Share Image
After Pope, in the beginning of Romanticism, people developed the idea that imagination rather than reason was a special form of knowledge… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
One thing he discovered with a great deal of astonishment was that music held for him more then just pleasure. There was… — Charles Frazier Copy Share Image
“I can quote you several examples where women were physically and violently hurt by men but at the same time, they were… — Shahla Khan Copy Share Image
Even if you're trying to remain objective, even if you're trying not to mount any campaigns or endorse anything, when you cover… — Frank Bruni Copy Share Image
But the best argument of all [for evangelism] is to be found in the wounds of Jesus. You want to honor Him,… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
The Consequentialist trinity is typically regarded in this way: Bentham is crude, Mill's writings are full of howlers and inconsistencies, and Sidgwick… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
Even if the absence of evidence for a given god were not evidence of its absence, it would still be evidence that… — Scott Clifton Copy Share Image
If every husband and every wife would constantly do whatever might be possible to ensure the comfort and happiness of his or… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
“Would you not say that peace is the greatest desire of true soldiers? Do we not have the most to lose from… — Earl Devere Copy Share Image
It is true that Mr. Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, after which there was a commitment to give 40 acres and a… — Al Sharpton Copy Share Image
“If you have no right to disapprove, then your approval means nothing. It may indeed be distressing to someone to have you… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
We go to the opening arguments or the closing arguments of a case, and we'd see which actor got the big one.… — Kelli Williams Copy Share Image
“You can argue that it expresses a degree of difference between He closed the door and He slammed the door, and you’ll… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
The only thing going on is the progression of words and sentences across page after page and so suddenly we see this… — Nicholas G. Carr Copy Share Image
Does it follow from: 'turn ye' that therefore you can turn? Does it follow from "'Love the Lord thy God with all… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
The ‘I’ character in journalism is almost pure invention. Unlike the ‘I’ of autobiography, who is meant to be seen as a… — Janet Malcolm Copy Share Image
You know, there is an argument to be made that these extensions of unemployment benefits keep people from going and finding jobs.… — Tom DeLay Copy Share Image
The basic formulation, or bare-bones mechanics, of natural selection is a disarmingly simple argument, based on three undeniable facts (overproduction of offspring,… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
[Margot Hentoff] thinks - first of all, she - this I hear from a lot of people beside her. She thinks that… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
Many of my sharpest critics have decided to take a position of ignoring me - because they feel that by attacking me,… — Bruce Bartlett Copy Share Image
The argument that gay marriage doesn't affect straight marriages is a ridiculous red herring: Gay marriage affects society and law in dramatic… — Ben Shapiro Copy Share Image
Coldplay songs deliver an amorphous, irrefutable interpretation of how being in love is supposed to feel, and people find themselves wanting that… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
“Happy Families. What's that all about, eh? A bloody busted flush is what it is. You surround yourself with other people so… — Mike Carey Copy Share Image