You have an impeccable argument if you said that Singapore, Hong Kong, and Tokyo are food capitals. They have a maximum amount… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
Capital punishment is the source of many an argument, both good and bad. — Marilyn vos Savant Copy Share Image
When a man is afraid and accedes to fear, he will always find arguments to justify his own surrender. — Natan Sharansky Copy Share Image
What was tortuously secured by complex argument becomes widely shared intuition, so obvious that we forget its provenance. We don’t see it,… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
Obstinacy and heat in argument are surest proofs of folly. Is there anything so stubborn, obstinate, disdainful, contemplative, grave, or serious, as… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
I feel as if dystopian and utopian representations are historically the most effective way of criticizing modern society. You know, because you… — Owen Pallett Copy Share Image
“Causing any damage or harm to one party in order to help another party is not justice, and likewise, attacking all feminine… — Christine de Pizan Copy Share Image
Judging from the tendency and effect of his arguments, an atheist does not appear positively to refuse that a God may be...… — Thomas Chalmers Copy Share Image
Before he (Francis Bacon) came along, people conducted all their arguments through a series of logical fallacies or simply shouting louder than… — Kevin Hearne Copy Share Image
[Addressed to Berlusconi who wanted to impose himself on the editorial style of "Il Giornale"] In the art of entrepeneurship, you are… — Indro Montanelli Copy Share Image
The financial wealth that has been created is unprecedented. Even if the stock market, for argument's sake, leveled off here, there's been… — Adam LaVorgna Copy Share Image
Until Japan's economy drove off a cliff, there was a running argument in Asia about whether it would be wiser to follow… — David E. Sanger Copy Share Image
It must be that there is something in the hearts of human beings, some natural fluid perhaps, that insists on happiness, even… — Ben H. Winters Copy Share Image
My wife and I had an argument last week that was so stupid, that it bears repeating. My wife collects twist ties...welcome… — Bill Engvall Copy Share Image
And I used to assemble the family to hear because I thought that they were so good that even from the point… — Ruth Pitter Copy Share Image
One of the great commandments of science is: 'Mistrust arguments from authority.' — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Answer them critics with silence and indifference. It works better, I assure you, than anger and argument. . . . — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Intelligence seeks reasons behind things. Wisdom looks for things behind reasons.” — Raheel Farooq Copy Share Image
I first became a vegetarian when I was nine, in response to an argument made by a radical babysitter. My great change… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Infidelity is seated in the heart; its origin is not in the head. It is the wish that Christianity might not be… — Charles Simmons Copy Share Image
The argument against the persecution of opinion does not depend upon what the excuse for persecution may be. The argument is that… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
You almost never get the pleasure of seeing that you won the argument in real time. People just don't like to publicly… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
Prejudice is a great time-saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts. Prejudice not being founded on reason cannot… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Almost invariably, whoever doesn't win the argument is going to be unhappy. — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
