Argument Quote by Aaron Sorkin Download Open image ““PRESIDENT BARTLETT: "See how benevolent I can be when everybody just does what I tell them.”” — Aaron Sorkin ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Argument Peace of mind
“To superficial minds, the vices of the great seem at all times agreeable.” — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
“I am President of all the people, good, bad, or indifferent, and as long as my opinions are known, ought perhaps to keep myself… — Grover Cleveland Copy Share Image
“When a man has been highly honored and has eaten a little he is most benevolent.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“No matter how good the idea, there’s always an advocate extreme enough to deter people.” — Steve Aylett Copy Share Image
“We are all very good at rationalizing our actions so that they are in line with our selfish motives.” — Dan Ariely Copy Share Image
“Our whole life is startlingly moral. There is never an instant's truce between virtue and vice. Goodness is the only investment that never fails.” — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“The sages do not act from (any wish to be) benevolent; they deal with the people as the dogs of grass are dealt with.” — Lao Tzu Copy Share Image
“There are so many today who are given to judging the good bad and the bad good. They act not to right but to… — Gottfried Von Strassburg Copy Share Image
“We only see what interests us, and we have only insight in proportion to our sympathy.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“What cruel mistakes are sometimes made by benevolent men and women in matters of business about which they can know nothing and think they… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
Conflict, when used as a device, makes for good television and bad journalism. — Aaron Sorkin Copy Share Image
Film doesn't have to worry. Movies are awesome. There's no war going on, theaters aren't going to lose. — Aaron Sorkin Copy Share Image
People don't live their lives in a series of scenes that form a dramatic narrative, they don't speak in dialogue, they're not lit by… — Aaron Sorkin Copy Share Image
One of the biggest challenges in the past for me in working on the networks was that audiences have grown accustomed to television being… — Aaron Sorkin Copy Share Image
You're going to fall down, but the world doesn't care how many times you fall down, as long as it's one fewer than the… — Aaron Sorkin Copy Share Image
We live in a world that has walls, and those walls have to be guarded by men with guns. — Aaron Sorkin Copy Share Image
As an audience member, I like the sound of something that's been written - I like it to sound written. And then, of course,… — Aaron Sorkin Copy Share Image
It's nice that HBO is in business with the audience and not with the advertisers. There's a difference. — Aaron Sorkin Copy Share Image
I had never thought of doing television. But my agent wanted me to meet John Wells, who had had a lot of success producing… — Aaron Sorkin Copy Share Image
Government should be a place where people can come together, and no one gets left behind. No one…gets left behind. An instrument of good. — Aaron Sorkin Copy Share Image
A flourishing, morally credible media is a vital component in the maintenance of genuinely public talk, argument about common good. — Rowan Williams Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
One argument goes that recessions are good for female artists because when money flies out the window, women are allowed in the house. The… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
All of the barriers to innovation in the energy sector are arguments for a big commitment to public investment. Only the public sector can… — Ted Nordhaus Copy Share Image
“Arguments led by subjectivity are a waste of time. And, if they take place online, add to that, a waste of one’s keyboard.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana 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 divorced. I… — Kelly Ripa Copy Share Image