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… — 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,… — 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… — 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… — 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… — 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… — 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… — 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… — 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… — 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… — 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… — Kelly Ripa Copy Share Image
In presenting a mathematical argument the great thing is to give the educated reader the chance to catch on at once to… — John Edensor Littlewood Copy Share Image
The first duty of a wise advocate is to convince his opponents that he understands their arguments, and sympathies with their just… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Violence is what people do when they run out of good ideas. It's attractive because it's simple, it's direct, it's almost always… — James S.A. Corey Copy Share Image
There's a fantastic, thousand-page book by David Thomson about [David O. Selznick]. Again, it's not the best argument or the best advertisement… — Karina Longworth Copy Share Image
“When a lady does consent to listen to an argument against her own opinions, she is always predetermined to withstand it -… — Anne Brontë Copy Share Image
Reason is universal because no attempted challenge to its results can avoid appealing to reason in the end-by claiming, for example, that… — Thomas Nagel Copy Share Image
I cannot do confrontation. You know that fight or flight thing? I'm flight. I just don't want the argument. — Jennifer Saunders Copy Share Image
“I know quite well why I became a historian.... It was because dissension was frowned upon when I was a child: 'Don't… — Penelope Lively Copy Share Image
While much of modern behavioral and social science treats individuals as autonomous agents, it is absolutely clear that the way we think… — Richard R. Nelson Copy Share Image
The most important guideline when it comes to argument is the golden rule. If someone were addressing your point, what tone, what… — Barry Eisler Copy Share Image
Nothing but free argument, raillery and even ridicule will preserve the purity of religion. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The anger I felt when the ACLU tried to disenfranchise me because my religious stayed with me. These are dangerous people who… — Henry Hyde Copy Share Image
