Argument Quote by Benjamin Cardozo Download Open image “Expediency may tip the scales when arguments are nicely balanced.” — Benjamin Cardozo ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Argument Balanced Expediency May Scales
“A balanced argument is one that takes place entirely in my head, and doesn’t cause me to tip over.” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
Man is naturally self-centered and he is inclined to regard expediency as the supreme standard for what is right and wrong. However, we must… — Abraham Joshua Heschel 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
Exaggeration is a prodigality of the judgment which shows the narrowness of one's knowledge or one's taste. — Baltasar Gracian Copy Share Image
As the scale of the balance must give way to the weight that presses it down, so the mind must of necessity yield to… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Any time you start judging with an overly critical eye rather than letting things just be, and following what you think is right, it's… — Juliette Lewis Copy Share Image
Nothing requires a greater effort of thought than arguments to justify the rule of non-thought. — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
The great generalities of the constitution have a content and a significance that vary from age to age. — Benjamin Cardozo Copy Share Image
It is for ordinary minds, not for psychoanalysts, that our rules of evidence are framed. They have their source very often in considerations of… — Benjamin Cardozo Copy Share Image
Not honesty alone, but the punctilio of an honor the most sensitive, is then the standard of behavior. — Benjamin Cardozo Copy Share Image
Every human being of adult years and sound mind has a legal right to determine what shall be done with his own body. — Benjamin Cardozo Copy Share Image
The heroic hours of life do not announce their presence by drum and trumpet. — Benjamin Cardozo Copy Share Image
In the end the great truth will have been learned that the quest is greater than what is sought, the effort finer that the… — Benjamin Cardozo Copy Share Image
The great tides and currents which engulf the rest of men do not turn aside in their course and pass the judges by. — Benjamin Cardozo Copy Share Image
The heroic hours of life do not announce their presence by drum and trumpet, challenging us to be true to ourselves by appeals to… — Benjamin Cardozo Copy Share Image
The prophet and the martyr do not see the hooting throng. Their eyes are fixed on the eternities. — Benjamin Cardozo Copy Share Image
The validity of a tax depends upon its nature, and not upon its name. — Benjamin Cardozo Copy Share Image
A flourishing, morally credible media is a vital component in the maintenance of genuinely public talk, argument about common good. — Rowan Williams Copy Share Image
Preaching to the choir actually arms the choir with arguments and elevates the choir's discourse. There's a reason the right does it and does… — Dan Savage Copy Share Image
Lutherans, whose arguments and mistakes will not be difficult to contest or discover, do not want to attribute any value to works, and they… — Michael Servetus Copy Share Image
Any comprehensive doctrine, religious or secular, can be introduced into any political argument at any time, but I argue that people who do this… — John Rawls Copy Share Image
As opposed to getting into arguments about, well, these folks have been treated fairly so now we're going to be doing things that, very… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
There could be no more powerful argument against mixing religion and government than the success of independent African American churches in placing racial segregation… — Susan Jacoby Copy Share Image
The inner defenses are unconscious. They consist of a kind of magic aura which the mind builds around cherished belief. Arguments which penetrate into… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
On the stage, the characters express themselves more through words than images. So the arguments of the characters and the tension between characters -… — Alan Alda Copy Share Image
One argument goes that recessions are good for female artists because when money flies out the window, women are allowed in the house. The… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
All of the barriers to innovation in the energy sector are arguments for a big commitment to public investment. Only the public sector can… — Ted Nordhaus Copy Share Image
“Arguments led by subjectivity are a waste of time. And, if they take place online, add to that, a waste of one’s keyboard.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Don't get divorced after your first argument! I have a lot of friends that have one fight and that's it, they get divorced. I… — Kelly Ripa Copy Share Image
