“The vulgar modern argument used against religion, and lately against common decency, would be absolutely fatal to any idea of liberty. It… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
I gave someone a perverse argument not so long ago about why advertising is better than movies. You want to hear it?… — Errol Morris Copy Share Image
I think there's a fundamental moral issue about whether it's right for a machine to decide to kill a person. It's bad… — Judy Woodruff Copy Share Image
In general, the men of lower intelligence won out. Afraid of their own shortcomings and of the intelligence of their opponents, so… — Thucydides Copy Share Image
We're living in a funny world kid, a peculiar civilization. The police are playing crooks in it, and the crooks are doing… — Jim Thompson Copy Share Image
You know, there is an argument to be made that these extensions of unemployment benefits keep people from going and finding jobs.… — Tom DeLay Copy Share Image
The ‘I’ character in journalism is almost pure invention. Unlike the ‘I’ of autobiography, who is meant to be seen as a… — Janet Malcolm Copy Share Image
The basic formulation, or bare-bones mechanics, of natural selection is a disarmingly simple argument, based on three undeniable facts (overproduction of offspring,… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Coldplay songs deliver an amorphous, irrefutable interpretation of how being in love is supposed to feel, and people find themselves wanting that… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
The argument that gay marriage doesn't affect straight marriages is a ridiculous red herring: Gay marriage affects society and law in dramatic… — Ben Shapiro Copy Share Image
Many of my sharpest critics have decided to take a position of ignoring me - because they feel that by attacking me,… — Bruce Bartlett Copy Share Image
[Margot Hentoff] thinks - first of all, she - this I hear from a lot of people beside her. She thinks that… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
Swiftly arose and spread around me the peace and knowledge that pass all the argument of the earth, And I know that… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
A rationalist, as I use the word, is a man who attempts to reach decisions by argument and perhaps, in certain cases,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Happy Families. What's that all about, eh? A bloody busted flush is what it is. You surround yourself with other people so… — Mike Carey Copy Share Image
If every husband and every wife would constantly do whatever might be possible to ensure the comfort and happiness of his or… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
Even if the absence of evidence for a given god were not evidence of its absence, it would still be evidence that… — Scott Clifton Copy Share Image
The Consequentialist trinity is typically regarded in this way: Bentham is crude, Mill's writings are full of howlers and inconsistencies, and Sidgwick… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
But the best argument of all [for evangelism] is to be found in the wounds of Jesus. You want to honor Him,… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Even if you're trying to remain objective, even if you're trying not to mount any campaigns or endorse anything, when you cover… — Frank Bruni Copy Share Image
We go to the opening arguments or the closing arguments of a case, and we'd see which actor got the big one.… — Kelli Williams Copy Share Image
“If you have no right to disapprove, then your approval means nothing. It may indeed be distressing to someone to have you… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
It is true that Mr. Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, after which there was a commitment to give 40 acres and a… — Al Sharpton Copy Share Image
“Would you not say that peace is the greatest desire of true soldiers? Do we not have the most to lose from… — Earl Devere Copy Share Image
Does it follow from: 'turn ye' that therefore you can turn? Does it follow from "'Love the Lord thy God with all… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
The only thing going on is the progression of words and sentences across page after page and so suddenly we see this… — Nicholas G. Carr Copy Share Image
“You can argue that it expresses a degree of difference between He closed the door and He slammed the door, and you’ll… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
The issue here is this, that the Government's argument at the present moment is the argument that now the war is over,… — Paikiasothy Saravanamuttu Copy Share Image
I always get everyone prepared so there aren't so many arguments on set. I have a policy that the first thing I… — Tony Scott Copy Share Image
If you work through the existing structures you are going to be corrupted. By working through political system that poisons the atmosphere,… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
The majority of donations should go to places with a longtermist mind-set. I want to be careful about being too dictatorial about… — Sam Bankman-Fried Copy Share Image
If any issue should unite liberals and conservatives, anyone who cares about the integrity of human achievement or respect for human accomplishment,… — Stephen Jay Gould 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
Today, almost half a century after the publication of the Encyclical [of Pius IX], new knowledge has led to the recognition in… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
I generally avoid over-population arguments. But there's no question we're in population overshoot. The catch is we're not going to do anything… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
Notwithstanding the trouble, notwithstanding the argument, notwithstanding the increasingly heavy hand of government, notwithstanding the spirit of arrogance we so often display,… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
We need to reflect with great seriousness about why many young people don't feel like getting married... For fear of failure, many… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
We who feel that justice is not being done have but one thing to do: that is fight, by argument, by example,… — Theodore Dreiser Copy Share Image
“...never [enter] into dispute or argument with another. I never saw an instance of one of two disputants convincing the other by… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
What (Stephen) Hawking says in his book The Grand Design is the universe exists because it needed to exist, and because it… — John Lennox Copy Share Image
![“[Margot Hentoff] thinks - first of all, she - this I hear from a lot of people beside her. She thinks that men have no business getting into this argument at all unless they're going to be pro-choice. But it turns out that a fair number of fetuses are male, and besides that, we are all one part of…” quote by Nat Hentoff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/060/nat-hentoff-1615_argument_margot-hentoff-thinks-first-of-all-she-t_42891.jpg)
![“But the best argument of all [for evangelism] is to be found in the wounds of Jesus. You want to honor Him, you desire to put many crowns upon His head, and this you can best do by winning souls for Him. These are the spoils that He covets, these are the trophies for which He fights, these are the…” quote by Charles Spurgeon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cc4/charles-spurgeon-82_adornment_but-the-best-argument-of-all-for-evangel_750051.jpg)
![“Today, almost half a century after the publication of the Encyclical [of Pius IX], new knowledge has led to the recognition in the theory of evolution of more than a hypothesis. It is indeed remarkable that this theory has been progressively accepted by researchers, following a series of…” quote by Pope John Paul II](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fc8/pope-john-paul-ii-485_accepted_today-almost-half-a-century-after-the-pu_1568710.jpg)
![“...never [enter] into dispute or argument with another. I never saw an instance of one of two disputants convincing the other by argument. I have seen many, on their getting warm, becoming rude, & shooting one another. ... When I hear another express an opinion which is not mine, I say to myself…” quote by Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a82/thomas-jefferson-43_politics_never-enter-into-dispute-or-argument-wit_2220825.jpg)
