In the sports world it's all about argument. It's all…

Public discourse requires making an argument for a point of view, not having an argument - as in having a fight.

— Deborah Tannen

..I've been trying to argue myself into thinking these things don't matter, A. Really,I have. But I've lost the argument. And I can't keep…

— David Levithan

As soon as an opinion becomes common it is sufficient reason for men to abandon it and to uphold the opposite opinion until that…

— Luc de Clapiers

When you're playing someone who has a strong ego about themselves, you can't play them when you have the opposite opinion of the one…

— Laura Dern

A lot of times when you're an investor, it's very easy to lean back and say, 'Well, people should come to me in Silicon…

— Michael Seibel

I cannot see why a taste for the country should be held so very indispensable a requisite for excellence; but really people talk of…

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Yesterday, the Supreme Court spent over an hour listening to arguments on whether Obamacare is unconstitutional. Yeah, listening to arguments about Obamacare for an…

— Jimmy Fallon

On the stage, the characters express themselves more through words than images. So the arguments of the characters and the tension between characters -…

— Alan Alda

The inner defenses are unconscious. They consist of a kind of magic aura which the mind builds around cherished belief. Arguments which penetrate into…

— Arthur Koestler

There could be no more powerful argument against mixing religion and government than the success of independent African American churches in placing racial segregation…

— Susan Jacoby

As opposed to getting into arguments about, well, these folks have been treated fairly so now we're going to be doing things that, very…

— Barack Obama

Any comprehensive doctrine, religious or secular, can be introduced into any political argument at any time, but I argue that people who do this…

— John Rawls

Lutherans, whose arguments and mistakes will not be difficult to contest or discover, do not want to attribute any value to works, and they…

— Michael Servetus

Preaching to the choir actually arms the choir with arguments and elevates the choir's discourse. There's a reason the right does it and does…

— Dan Savage

A flourishing, morally credible media is a vital component in the maintenance of genuinely public talk, argument about common good.

— Rowan Williams