Reasonable argument is impossible when authority becomes the arbiter. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Poor mind, from the senses you take your arguments, and then want to defeat them? Your victory is your defeat. — Democritus Copy Share Image
The... arguments against photography ever being considered a fine art are: the element of chance which enters in, finding things ready-made for… — Edward Weston Copy Share Image
The Old Testament contains in many places, but especially in the book of Job, one of the most far-reaching defenses ever written… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
...the argument from absence of transitional types boils down to the striking fact that such types are always lacking unless they have… — George Gaylord Simpson Copy Share Image
The new atheism as an old atheism, except it's much more aggressive. The new atheism wants to destroy religion. That's a very… — John Lennox Copy Share Image
I haven't mentioned another argument, The Hague tribunal. It is clear our generals and all of you who are sitting here now… — Franjo Tudjman Copy Share Image
For all its beauty, honesty, and effectiveness at improving the human condition, science demands a terrible price - that we accept what… — David Brin Copy Share Image
Well, she's so alive, Julia Child. And Margaret is so - is so designed. She's so intent upon making her point. That's… — Meryl Streep Copy Share Image
You can see it on the Internet: There's an argument going on continually about, 'What is folk music?' And I don't really… — Roger McGuinn Copy Share Image
I think Chinese leadership is trying to tell the world they have another set of logic or reasoning or values which are… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
One of the things I think about with Donald Trump is what are his words actually attached to? With Trump, I'm not… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
“If you really believe this is what you want, you're lying to yourself.' 'I'm not lying to myself,' Jacks snarled. 'Then tell… — Stephanie Garber Copy Share Image
Politicians dont expect the argument of the day to infiltrate restaurants, but of course they do, because were all human beings. — Alex Wagner Copy Share Image
They believed that Britain was in Ireland defending their own interests, therefore the Irish had the right to use violence to put… — John Hume Copy Share Image
Just because science so far has failed to explain something, such as consciousness, to say it follows that the facile, pathetic explanations… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
But in many orders of beauty, particularly those of the finer arts, it is requisite to employ much reasoning, in order to… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Whenever I appeared to have won an argument, Mom would say something like, 'Even broken clocks are right twice a day. — Tammara Webber Copy Share Image
In the United States, the government is bailing out banks, intervening in the economy, yet in Latin America, the Right continues to… — Hugo Chavez Copy Share Image
Responsible Development is the style of development I aspire to now. It can be summarized by answering the question, How would I… — Kent Beck Copy Share Image
If I'm in a political argument, I think I can, with reasonable accuracy and without boasting, put the other person's side of… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Demosthenes, when taunted by Pytheas that all his arguments "smelled of the lamp," replied, "Yes, but your lamp and mine, my friend,… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
One-hundred facts about Vietnam and we studied the fact sheet and got in to these arguments and it was fantastic, and I… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
She blinked. "Hmm? Oh, don't care. What did Anubis look like to you?" "What did... he looked like a guy. So?" "A… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
“Christian writers, whether they like it or not, do not simply write for themselves; for good or ill, readers will see their… — Alan Jacobs Copy Share Image
