The [first] argument asserts the non-existence of motion on the ground that that which is in locomotion must arrive at the half-way… — Zeno of Elea Copy Share Image
Was not necessity the plea of every illegal exertion of power or exercise of oppression?...Necessity is the plea for very infringement of… — William Pitt Copy Share Image
A lot of these people are Iraqis fighting for control of their own government. Maybe there's an argument to make that outside… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
As sisters, they probably have closer to 99 percent in common, but they’re not about to recognize that. They’d rather fight over… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
Painting is the same kind of problem as unfolding a long, sustained interlocked argument... It is a proposition commanded by a single… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
When you call somebody a Nazi, you can make the argument that you're inciting violence and here's how: As a country, we… — Dan Crenshaw Copy Share Image
For if any man who never saw fire proved by satisfactory arguments that fire burns. His hearer's mind would never be satisfied,… — Roger Bacon Copy Share Image
“When an argument is about an issue, keep it about the issue. Personalizing unnecessarily will only make the issue harder to resolve.… — Kim Malone Scott Copy Share Image
“1. God is (by definition) a being than which no greater being can be thought. 2. Greatness includes greatness of virtue. 3.… — Douglas N. Walton Copy Share Image
“Don’t fight with narrow minded people; be determined to compel them to change their mindsets about who you stand to be, not… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
“Pressed by the irresistible weight of these arguments many take refuge in ambiguous and evasive phrases, e.g., "Be sure God will do… — Thomas Allin Copy Share Image
I like good ideas. I don't want just do something for it's own sake to bother people, but if I can bother… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
We maintain, and have said in the Ethics, if the arguments there adduced are of any value, that happiness is the realization… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
If I were doing somebody else's script or I adapted a book by Philip Roth, on set there could be a million… — Charlie Kaufman Copy Share Image
If you look at what's happened to the stock market, if you look at what's happened to housing values, if you look… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
“In our time, political speech and writing are largely the defence of the indefensible. Things like the continuance of British rule in… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Name one practical, down-to-earth effect of spirituality," said the skeptic who was ready for an argument. "Here's one," said the Master. "When… — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
When I disagree with a rational man, I let reality be our final arbiter; if I am right, he will learn; if… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I want the tigard. (Varyk) And I want you to leave. Guess who’s going to win this argument? And in case you’re… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
Cease being intimidated by the argument that a right action is impossible because it does not yield maximum profits, or that a… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
The argument that any income redistribution is tantamount to socialism, and that socialism has always been unAmerican, has helped legitimise keeping taxes… — Linda Colley Copy Share Image
The first and continuing argument for the curtailment of working hours and the raising of the minimum age was that education was… — Grace Abbott Copy Share Image
Nothing so sharpens the thought process as writing down one's arguments. Weaknesses overlooked in oral discussion become painfully obvious on the written… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Admitting, however, for the sake of argument, that I am prime and sole minister in this country, am I, therefore, prime and… — Robert Walpole Copy Share Image
Even if you get a joke right you've done it a thousand times and sometimes there's times where it just doesn't work… — Godfrey Copy Share Image
... the only argument against vivisection that will be seen to have lasting power - that we do not improve human society… — Jon Wynne-Tyson Copy Share Image
There are a lot of good arguments for birth control, but as far as terminating a life that has already come into… — Kathy Ireland Copy Share Image
No one has advanced the argument that all-male fighting forces have been handicapped in their war-making abilities over the millennia because they… — Heather Mac Donald Copy Share Image
I hope I make films where you walk away . . . with work to do, arguments to have, things to worry… — Mike Leigh Copy Share Image
“...part of the mind's job was to cast doubt on what the heart knew to be true, and the heart, because it… — Julius Lester Copy Share Image
Some people have made the argument, well, Donald Trump is bad, but Hillary Clinton may be worse, or there's really no difference.… — Allan Nairn Copy Share Image
I should be very much obliged if you would slip your revolver into your pocket. An Eley's No. 2 is an excellent… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
Contrary to the popular notion that only creationism relies on the supernatural, evolutionism must as well, since the probabilities of random formation… — Chandra Wickramasinghe Copy Share Image
You see, a conflict always begins with an issue - a difference of opinion, an argument. But by the time it turns… — Neal Shusterman Copy Share Image
The greatest danger in any argument is that real issues often clouded by superficial ones, that momentary passions may obscure permanent realities. — Mary Ellen Chase Copy Share Image
The argument that women who become pregnant have in some sense consented to the pregnancy belies realityand others who are the inevitable… — Dawn Johnsen Copy Share Image
I am very hostile to religion because it is enormously dominant, especially in American life. And I don't buy the argument that,… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I think that the history of the past hundred years has shown us that, by and large, the one linguistic group to… — Pierre Trudeau Copy Share Image
Most of the intelligence out there must be artificial intelligence. We keep looking for critters like us living on a planet like… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
You can do the best research and be making the strongest intellectual argument, but if readers don't get past the third paragraph… — Carl Hiaasen Copy Share Image