The strongest argument against totalitarianism may be a recognition of a universal human nature; that all humans have innate desires for life,… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
The only thing worse than being on the wrong side of an argument is to be on the right side with no… — Evan Esar Copy Share Image
Now when naturalists observe a close agreement in numerous small details of habits, tastes and dispositions between two or more domestic races,… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Some volumes against Deism fell into my hands ... they produced an effect precisely the reverse to what was intended by the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
All fiction, if it's successful, is going to appeal to the emotions. Emotion is really what fiction is all about. That's not… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
Recently, I took my son to see The Haunted Mansion, which was one of the worst things (I hesitate even to call… — A. O. Scott Copy Share Image
David Ray Griffin has done admirable and painstaking research in reviewing the mysteries surrounding the 9/11 attacks. It is the most persuasive… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
I suppose I was about 20, and a crowd of us had been to a village hop and came back to make… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
Very quickly the lawyers in the Justice Department pulled together a set of recommendations about how we ought to defend the law… — Donald Verrilli Jr Copy Share Image
“What happened was: they became a team, a family of two. There had been times before they ran away when they acted… — E.L. Konigsburg Copy Share Image
Ladies and dentists will agree: Iverson has one of the best smiles to ever grin. This is uncontested. No argument! And he… — Amanda Seales Copy Share Image
A man who is furnished with arguments from the mint will convince his antagonist much sooner than one who draws them from… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
I enter into discussion and argument with great freedom and ease, inasmuch as opinion finds me in a bad soil to penetrate… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Pascal makes no attempt in this most famous argument to show that his Roman Catholicism is true or probably true. The reasons… — Antony Flew Copy Share Image
Nothing like this has been attempted before. (...) It might be called a literary Porto Alegre. That implies a beginning, with much… — Perry Anderson Copy Share Image
Christianity has been successfully attacked and marginalized… because those who professed belief were unable to defend the faith from attack, even though… — William Wilberforce Copy Share Image
An aim of an argument should be progress, but progress ultimately means little without victory. — Gary L. Francione Copy Share Image
There's a popular saying that the Internet interprets censorship as damage and routes around it. Desire and innovation will trump policy, the… — Virginia Postrel Copy Share Image
It is never ridicule, but a compliment, that knocks a philosopher off his feet. He is already positioned for every possible counter-attack,… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, the problem of the free speech argument is that you have to defend people you can't stand. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
You can't talk about peace nor agreement while terror is used as the main argument. — Alberto Fujimori Copy Share Image
Reducing every issue to an argument can become stale but it's often a very good way of clarifying issues. — Evan Davis Copy Share Image
I have dumped a girl over the phone. It's terrible, isn't it? We got into an argument during a phone call, so… — Justin Bieber Copy Share Image
Those who direct the maximum force of their desires toward the center, toward true being, toward perfection, seem quieter than the passionate… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
That God cannot lie, is no advantage to your argument, because it is no proof that priests can not, or that the… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
