Argument Against Quotes
31 quotes by 29 authors
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You never need an argument against the use of violence, you need an argument for it.
— Noam Chomsky
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The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.
— Winston Churchill
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The real argument against aristocracy is that it always means the rule of the ignorant. For the most dangerous of all forms of ignorance is…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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I do see that there is an argument against suicide: the grief of the worshipers left behind, the awful famine in their hearts, these are…
— Mark Twain
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When neither high purpose nor the categorical imperatives of religion will do, the only argument against suicide is life itself. You pause and attend: the…
— Al Alvarez
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The power to determine the quantity of money... is too important, too pervasive, to be exercised by a few people, however public-spirited, if there is…
— Milton Friedman
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The abuse of a thing is no argument against the use of it.
— Jeremy Collier
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If you want a good argument against democracy, spend five minutes with a voter.
— Winston Churchill
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No one talks about the real ethics disaster in Washington. It's that many members of Congress will listen to any argument against a bill except…
— Ron Paul
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In one sense I feel that my book is a one-woman argument against determinism.
— Susan Griffin
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Even those who identify themselves as libertarians follow an overtly anti-rationalist philosophy, as even a brief acquaintance with the work of Friedrich Hayek should make…
— Philip E. Agre
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I've always felt that the placement of a man's testicles is an eloquent argument against intelligent design.
— Mark Lawrence
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The only real argument against the Bible is an unholy life. When a man argues against the Word of God, follow him home, and see…
— Charles Spurgeon
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I do not see that the sex of the candidate is an argument against her admission as a Privatdozent. After all, the Senate is not…
— David Hilbert
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Why do we not exhaust the heritage of the ages, spiritual and material for our immediate pleasure, and let posterity go hang? So far as…
— Russell Kirk
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... the only argument against vivisection that will be seen to have lasting power - that we do not improve human society by means that…
— Jon Wynne-Tyson
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But I think it is hardly an argument against a man's general strength of character, that he should be apt to be mastered by love.…
— George Eliot
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There could be no more powerful argument against mixing religion and government than the success of independent African American churches in placing racial segregation and…
— Susan Jacoby
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The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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The most convincing argument against early parenthood is that you are in a relationship that is likely to fall apart before that child grows up.
— Tony Parsons
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