Accepting Quote by Robert F. Almeder

“If the other person is likely to act irrationally, you need to offer emotional payments. You need to make adjustments. One example of adjustment…

— Stuart Diamond

I act irrationally, I defy the odds, I engage when others would run. I look for trouble, I seek chaos, it is a burden.

— Rosie O'Donnell

“That was the thing about terror: it made rational people act irrationally.”

— Marcus Sakey

Custom is custom: it is built of brass, boiler-iron, granite; facts, reasonings, arguments have no more effect upon it than the idle winds have…

— Mark Twain

Understanding God is not attained by calling into session all arguments for and against Him, in order to debate whether He is a reality…

— Abraham Joshua Heschel

Some theists, observing that all 'effects' need a cause, assert that God is a cause but not an effect. But no one has ever…

— Dan Barker

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

Nothing but free argument, raillery and even ridicule will preserve the purity of religion.

— Thomas Jefferson

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

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

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

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