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Argument Quotes by Christopher Hitchens
- Never be a spectator of unfairness or stupidity. Seek out argument and disputation for their own sake; the grave will supply plenty of time for…
- Arguments that explain everything... explain nothing
- There are all kinds of stupid people that annoy me but what annoys me most is a lazy argument.
- If I'm in a political argument, I think I can, with reasonable accuracy and without boasting, put the other person's side of the case at…
- The secular argument, or the liberal argument, is to as much as possible remove taboos so things do not become unmentionable; to let some air…
- Beware the irrational, however seductive. Shun the 'transcendent' and all who invite you to subordinate or annihilate yourself. Distrust compassion; prefer dignity for yourself and…
- Very often the test of one's allegiance to a cause or to a people is precisely the willingness to stay the course when things are…
- There can be no progress without head-on confrontation.
- Religion is not going to come up with any new arguments.
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- Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup. — Wendell Berry
- Liberty is a great celestial Goddess, strong, beneficent, and austere, and she can never descend upon a nation by the shouting of… — Annie Besant
- But black people fall for that same argument, and they go around talking about law breakers. We did not make the laws… — H. Rap Brown
- Nor knowest thou what argument Thy life to thy neighbor's creed has lent. All are needed by each one; Nothing is fair… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- When neither high purpose nor the categorical imperatives of religion will do, the only argument against suicide is life itself. You pause… — Al Alvarez
- The notion that somehow or another they'll (Iran) put it in a picnic basket and hand it to some terrorist group is… — Zbigniew Brzezinski
- Know for a very short time, we have so many stuff in life that we dont really understand, for the fact that… — Unknown Author