Argument Quotes

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All fiction, if it's successful, is going to appeal to the emotions. Emotion is really what fiction is all about. That's not to say fiction… — George R. R. Martin
The... arguments against photography ever being considered a fine art are: the element of chance which enters in, finding things ready-made for a machine to… — Edward Weston
One barrier... is the impoverishment of classroom language, the failure to cultivate a common vocabulary about inquiry, explanation, argument and problem solving. — David Perkins
What is faith? If you believe something because you have evidence for it, or rational argument, that is not faith. So faith seems to be… — Peter Singer
Senate Bill 1062 does not address a specific and present concern related to religious liberty in Arizona. I have not heard of one example in… — Jan Brewer
Judicial execution can never cancel or remove the atrocity it seeks to punish; it can only add a second atrocity to the original one ...… — Auberon Waugh
The purpose of democracy - supplanting old belief in the necessary absoluteness of establish'd dynastic rulership, temporal, ecclesiastical, and scholastic, as furnishing the only security… — Walt Whitman
Democracy is our most valuable possession. Upholding it is our duty and our responsibility. This means a continuous, decisive and self-confident argument; it means effort… — Wolfgang Thierse
If you want a good argument against democracy, spend five minutes with a voter. — Winston Churchill
Hume develops his arguments by a series of models. He doesn't call them models in the pretentious way in which we envelope, very often, pure… — Lionel Robbins, Baron Robbins
The chief arguments that are urged against an established religion, may be used with equal force against an established charity. The dissenter submits, that no… — Herbert Spencer
Why would scientists dedicated to uncovering the truth about the natural world deliberately misrepresent the work of their own colleagues? Why would they spread accusations… — Naomi Oreskes
It is easier to silence scientific dissent by utilizing the politics of personal destruction, than to actually debate them on the merits of their arguments.… — Mike Thompson
The climate change argument is absolute crap — Tony Abbott
Ultimately, Leibniz argued, there are only two absolutely simple concepts, God and Nothingness. From these, all other concepts may be constructed, the world, and everything… — David Berlinski
I argued last year on my shared blog that selling the right to immigrate would be the best approach to legal immigration. Among other benefits,… — Gary Becker
How is this any different than the big boat argument of people when it came to African-Americans after the Civil War, decided, 'Put them on… — Chris Matthews
This argument has been codified in the twentieth century as meritocracy, in which those on top in the process of capitalist accumulation have merited their… — Immanuel Wallerstein
I was not in agreement with the sharp anti-Semitic tone, but from time to time I read arguments which gave me some food for thought.… — Adolf Hitler
During a frustrating argument with a Roman Catholic cardinal, Napoleon Bonaparte supposedly burst out: Your eminence, are you not aware that I have the power… — Ross Douthat

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