What no one shows the ability to defend is quickly abandoned. Rational argument does not create belief, but it maintains a climate… — Austin Farrer Copy Share Image
The utterly fallacious idea at the heart of the pro-war argument is that it is the duty of the anti-war argument to… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
It is bad enough that so many people believe things without any evidence. What is worse is that some people have no… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Men have defined the parameters of every subject. All feminist arguments, however radical in intent or consequence, are with or against assertions… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
It is easier to hide behind philosophical arguments, heavily footnoted for effect, than it is to admit our hurts, our confusions, our… — Ravi Zacharias Copy Share Image
It would behoove you to have your thesis finely tuned and the logical arguments utilized in support of it tightly woven into… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Do I wish that things were more orderly in Washington and rational and people listened to the best arguments and compromised and… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I can make the argument that people who don't have the biggest ranges but have very unique voices, even if they may… — Kara DioGuardi Copy Share Image
You can have very big local government. By big, I mean very engaged government. Do you measure it in terms of the… — Zephyr Teachout Copy Share Image
Nicholson Baker talks about the way in which the most successful nonfiction books are those that can be boiled down into an… — Geoff Dyer Copy Share Image
You have two choices with Obama. You either believe that he is a man of Christ... or you think he's a liar.… — Penn Jillette Copy Share Image
Preserve the core, and let the rest flux. In their wonderful bestseller Built to Last, authors James Collins and Jerry Porras make… — Kevin Kelly Copy Share Image
Let the Spirit be lacking, and there may be wisdom of words, but not the wisdom of God; the powers of oratory,… — Arthur Tappan Pierson Copy Share Image
A lot of times, candidates for office, especially incumbents, seem to get drawn into their opponents' arguments, and fighting on their turf,… — Tom Harkin Copy Share Image
Purchasing power is a license to purchase power. The old proletariat sold its labour power in order to subsist; what little leisure… — Raoul Vaneigem Copy Share Image
I am caught in a terrific bind of characterologically and rationally needing to think in the most comprehensive terms possible, forming a… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
You can win more arguments then you might think as a writer, even though you legally have no recourse, and your script… — Shane Black Copy Share Image
You can make an argument that Bill O'Reilly is a conservative or a Republican. Bill's kind of unpredictable. Somebody might say that… — Brit Hume Copy Share Image
John Foster Dulles had called on me in his capacity as Secretary of State, and he had exhausted every argument to persuade… — Norodom Sihanouk Copy Share Image
For similar folly, our own country, in the transition from the colonial period, also paid a fearful price; and from a like… — Andrew Dickson White Copy Share Image
Art has no need of philosophical arguments, it does not follow the signposts of philosophical systems; Art like life, dictates systems to… — Naum Gabo Copy Share Image
The argument about zoning and the presidency of Nigeria is like the philosophical argument of the egg or the hen. Who is… — Goodluck Jonathan Copy Share Image
“Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers who can cut through the argument debate and doubt to offer a solution everybody can… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
An argument can be logically valid, but unsound in that it contains a false premise and, therefore, leads to a false conclusion… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
Is there a free speech crisis on college campuses? One can certainly make that argument, but that portrayal is at least as… — Bret Weinstein Copy Share Image
Originally the big argument was that they wanted to call it "raw and uncut" and I told them I had a problem… — Gabriel Iglesias Copy Share Image
A moral argument about whether censorship is good or bad deteriorates quickly into accusations about who is more or less patriotic, moral,… — Rebecca MacKinnon Copy Share Image
“When a lady does consent to listen to an argument against her own opinions, she is always predetermined to withstand it -… — Anne Brontë Copy Share Image
The only good thing that we owe to Plato and Aristotle is that they brought forward many arguments which we can use… — Girolamo Savonarola Copy Share Image
Hence our verdict on these reformulated versions of St. Anselm's argument must be as follows. They cannot, perhaps, be said to prove… — Alvin Plantinga Copy Share Image
That's not really important what religion people are attached to, because by the same argument I have a lot of Christian friends… — Paul McCartney Copy Share Image
I have been so satisfied with the Christian religion that I have spent no time trying to find arguments against it. I… — William Jennings Bryan Copy Share Image
No matter what argument you make against evolution, the response is Well, you know, it's possible to believe in evolution and believe… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
I started out doing multiple characters from day one, when I got my fist job in 'Dumbo's Circus.' I'm used to getting… — Jim Cummings Copy Share Image
Atheism, I began to realize, rested on a less-than-satisfactory evidential basis. The arguments that had once seemed bold, decisive, and conclusive increasingly… — Alister E. McGrath Copy Share Image
When people make the educated argument that things should go back, it's more like going back to a feeling they had when… — Adrian Younge Copy Share Image
Often, just as when they were children, it was four against one when some argument came up. At least they no longer… — Kristen Britain Copy Share Image
I do not have a brain that I long for in dealing with matters of which I am ignorant, that don't come… — Richard Attenborough Copy Share Image
In my personal life I'm not very tough at all, but in my professional life, having to deal with being a woman… — Cher Copy Share Image
A religious commitment coupled with theological awareness gives Jews a much better way to answer the claims made upon us by missionaries… — David Novak Copy Share Image
