No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the… — Marilyn Ferguson Copy Share Image
Various are the pleas and arguments which men of corrupt minds frequently urge against yielding obedience to the just and holy commands… — George Whitefield Copy Share Image
When communism failed, it wasn't a good idea that had gone wrong, it was a bad idea that had been sustained with… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
I'm not going to get in to an argument with anyone about the relative merits of Judaism and Christianity, and what it… — T Bone Burnett Copy Share Image
We run into some pretty tough arguments sometimes, but the idea is that at the end of the day, my wife and… — Kyle Chandler Copy Share Image
Deep down I knew that if Hell existed, it was a real place full of ruthless, venal people, like the commodity pits… — Richard Dooling Copy Share Image
In the real world there is no nature vs. nurture argument, only an infinitely complex and moment-by-moment interaction between genetic and environmental… — Gabor Mate Copy Share Image
I think what I and most other sociologists of religion wrote in the 1960s about secularization was a mistake. Our underlying argument… — Peter L. Berger Copy Share Image
Our whole educational system, from the elementary schools to the universities, is increasingly turning out people who have never heard enough conflicting… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The methods of peace propaganda which aim at establishing peace doctrine by argument and by creating a feeling favorable to peace in… — Elihu Root Copy Share Image
The social intuitionist model offers an explanation of why moral and political arguments are so frustrating: because moral reasons are the tail… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
“WIN PEOPLE TO YOUR WAY OF THINKING PRINCIPLE 1 The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid… — Dale Carnegie Copy Share Image
Moyo, a Zambia-born economist, asserts that aid is not only ineffective-it's harmful. Her argument packs a strong punch because she was born… — Amy Lockwood Copy Share Image
As a child, I heard in my home doctors and ambulance men say, 'Mrs. Stewart, you must've done something to provoke him.'… — Patrick Stewart Copy Share Image
The terminology of philosophical art is coercive: arguments are powerful and best when they are knockdown, arguments force you to a conclusion,… — Robert Nozick Copy Share Image
Theoretically, you can make, obviously, a powerful argument that centuries of slavery, Jim Crow, discrimination are the primary cause for all those… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Fox hunting, there's big fox hunting thing, there's arguments in Britain about fox hunting. And they go around. They obviously hunt foxes… — Eddie Izzard Copy Share Image
The most convincing argument against early parenthood is that you are in a relationship that is likely to fall apart before that… — Tony Parsons Copy Share Image
“If someone doesn't value evidence, what evidence are you going to provide to prove that they should value it? If someone doesn’t… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“People will say,"there's heaven and hell", and they take it so serious that they look so sorrowful with penitence. I would rather… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
It doesn’t much matter what line of argument you take as a woman. If you venture into traditional male territory, the abuse… — Mary Beard Copy Share Image
My argument against God was that the universe seemed so cruel and unjust. But how had I got this idea of just… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The very metaphor Paul chooses for this decisive moment in his argument shows that what he has in mind is not the… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
Well, I have a message for the nameless , gutless whimperers out there. Quit whining. Unlike some other shows, we here at… — Paul Begala Copy Share Image
Typography has one plain duty before it and that is to convey information in writing. No argument or consideration can absolve typography… — Emil Ruder Copy Share Image
Interfaith dialogue is a must today, and the first step in establishing it is forgetting the past, ignoring polemical arguments, and giving… — Fethullah Gulen Copy Share Image
The secular argument, or the liberal argument, is to as much as possible remove taboos so things do not become unmentionable; to… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
In the middle ages of Christianity opposition to the State opinions was hushed. The consequence was, Christianity became loaded with all the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
After 45 years of marriage, when I have an argument with my wife, if we don't agree, we do what she wants.… — Jacques Pepin Copy Share Image
I do not know what arguments mean in reference to any expression of a thought. I delight in telling what I think;… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Just recognize that the words aren’t made of stone and you’re not made of glass. Recognize that you are safe, you are… — Kassandra Dick Copy Share Image
When a man finds a conclusion agreeable, he accepts it without argument, but when he finds it disagreeable, he will bring against… — Thucydides Copy Share Image
The storm had now definitely abated, and what thunder there was now grumbled over more distant hills, like a man saying 'And… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Rap makes the conservative argument about what happens when family life is eroded either by welfare and drugs, or by the stresses… — Shelby Steele Copy Share Image
Sonu Nigam, Farah Khan and I don't have a teleprompter and neither do we plan about what we say. If we break… — Anu Malik Copy Share Image
Discussion and argument are essential parts of science; the greatest talent is the ability to strip a theory until the simple basic… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Our reports about civilian casualties here, about the resistance of the Iraqi forces, are going back to the United States. It helps… — Peter Arnett Copy Share Image
It is only because the majority opinion will always be opposed by some that our knowledge and understanding progress... it is always… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
For those of us who have a ground of knowledge which we cannot transmit to outsiders, it is perhaps more profitable to… — Olive Schreiner Copy Share Image
The argument that someone is a bad man is an inadequate argument for war and certainly an inadequate and unacceptable argument for… — John Major Copy Share Image
