Body-politic Quote by David Brooks

“A universal weakness of humanity is to equate the strength of an argument with their opinion of its maker.”

— Iain Gately

“since they deal with matters that are the centre of conflict of opposing social groups where the effectiveness of an argument is often contingent…

— Sidin Vadukut

“Too many people get away with truly awful ‘reasoning’, not because what they are arguing happens to be true, but because they are in…

— Ellie Rose McKee

“The problem with a lot of people is that what they think is a virtue is actually a vice in disguise. It's much easier…

— Kevin Dutton

“Let our disputes be increasingly defined by the limits of our reason rather than by the extent of our bigotry.”

— Steve Harvey

“The world is too much for us. Rationality as we have come to know it works by ignoring most of experience: laws are arrived…

— Tom Cheetham

“But who is ever fair in an argument?”

— A.B. Shepherd

“I've always found that a really lively argument depends on the ignorance of the combatants.”

— Guy Vanderhaeghe

“One problem with today's culture is that we defend too many rights and ignore too many wrongs.”

— Ron Brackin

“Any judgment born of collective agreement is, by nature, arbitrary, no matter how widely it is accepted.”

— Sov8840

“It all starts with the universally applicable premise that people want to be understood and accepted.”

— Chris Voss

“Contemporary moral argument is rationally interminable, because all moral, indeed all evaluative, argument is and always must be rationally interminable. Contemporary moral disagreements of…

— Alasdair MacIntyre