“The so-called paradox of freedom is the argument that freedom in the sense of absence of any constraining control must lead to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is nothing that a New-Englander so nearly worships as an argument. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Our argument is not flatly circular, but something like it. It has the form, figuratively speaking, of a closed curve in space. — Willard Van Orman Quine Copy Share Image
“Your opponent's wrong doesn't automatically make you right. Most fights aren't about who's right; they are contention over degrees of wrongness.” — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
The practice of narrative and argument does not lead to invention, but it compels a certain coherence of thought. — Jean Piaget Copy Share Image
I love being married. It's great. But I hate arguing. I hate fighting. You know what I do now? When we get… — Louis C. K Copy Share Image
If I just point out the fact that black people hurt each other, too, then we can ignore the fact that other… — Trip Lee Copy Share Image
The concept of military necessity is seductively broad, and has a dangerous plasticity. Because they invariably have the visage of overriding importance,… — William J. Brennan Copy Share Image
More people have been brought into the church by the kindness of real Christian love than by all the theological arguments in… — William Barclay Copy Share Image
I think the biggest mistake I made was this wretched ability to see both sides of an argument. — John Major Copy Share Image
The classification of facts and the formation of absolute judgments upon the basis of this classification-judgments independent of the idiosyncrasies of the… — Karl Pearson Copy Share Image
Science has long been in the value business. Despite a widespread belief to the contrary, scientific validity is not the result of… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
All the arguments about nutrition are really about what is the problem ingredient in the western diet. Is it the fat? Is… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Personally I do not resort to force- not even the force of law- to advance moral reforms. I prefer education, argument, persuasion,… — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
The human being receives the pleasure from music, not from the argument over what it is. — Ornette Coleman Copy Share Image
My argument is: keep the bloody bottom line at the bottom. That's where it should be. — Anita Roddick Copy Share Image
As much as the social conservatives might not like to hear it, there will be a time when your grandchildren say: 'What… — Jim Kolbe Copy Share Image
The first rules about Islamic law weren't even written down for a century and a half after the Prophet's death, and it… — Sadakat Kadri Copy Share Image
“Then everyone would retreat for a nap, after which we would have coffee and cake, sometimes an argument.” — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
The function of art is to make that understood which in the form of argument would be incomprehensible. — Constantin Brancusi Copy Share Image
Insults are the arguments employed by those who are in the wrong. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Obama and the Democrats' preposterous argument is that we are just one more big tax increase away from solving our economic problems.… — Bob Beauprez Copy Share Image
Some people make a separate argument about the red light cameras. They say it just changes the type of crash that's most… — Robert James Thomson Copy Share Image
I was told in many places of Osgar's bravery and Goll's strength and Conan's bitter tongue, and the arguments of Oisin and… — Lady Gregory Copy Share Image
Your insult has offended me. If we were at the Peaks, we would have to duel in traditional alil'tiki'i fashion." "Which is… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
The argument that making contraceptives available to young people would prevent teen pregnancies is ridiculous. That's like offering a cookbook as a… — Jerry Falwell Copy Share Image
Admirals and Generals always want more ships and more weapons and they take the arguments where they can find them. — Helmut Schmidt Copy Share Image
There are many who criticise the United Nations. And those of us who know this institution well know that it is not… — Kevin Rudd Copy Share Image
Many people suffer all their lives from this oppressive feeling of guilt, the sense of not having lived up to their parents'… — Alice Miller Copy Share Image
Be part of the solution and answer to the problem versus part of the problem and continuing argument around it. — David Pratt Copy Share Image
Above all, the ability to feel the force of an argument apart from the substance it deals with is the strongest weapon… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
Of course, there were huge disagreements in the arguments of military intervention, .. There is no point at the moment on focusing… — Chris Patten Copy Share Image
The master of superstition, is the people; and in all superstition, wise men follow fools; and arguments are fitted to practice, in… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
To borrow from Mark Twain, I tend to think that reports of the death of supervaluationist approaches have been greatly exaggerated. The… — Richard F. Heck Copy Share Image
Liberals are sometimes defined as people who can't take their own side in an argument. — Cass Sunstein Copy Share Image
Power is getting things done without having to demonstrate that you can bulldoze it through. I'm most effective when I've studied an… — Donna Edwards Copy Share Image
