“When we look at women, we have to look at the significance of their work in a different way from the way we look at it with men. Women have more often worked within the home, working equally as hard, I would argue, but not always out there where they're counted, not always up there in the labor unions, certainly not in leadership positions.” MenWayLooksDifferentHardHomePositionLaborUnionsArguingDifferent WaysSignificanceMen WomenLabor Union Author:Adele Logan Alexander
“It's an interesting place to begin where the country is completely divided into choosing sides, when the only side everyone should be choosing is the side of America, and then politicians essentially should be arguing about the best way to serve America.” WayShouldCountryAmericaSidesInterestingPoliticianArguingBest WayDividedInteresting PlacesChoosing Sides Author:Trevor Noah
“It's actually technically impossible for a woman to argue against feminism. Without feminism, you wouldn't be allowed to have a debate on a woman's place in society. You'd be too busy giving birth on the kitchen floor, biting down on a wooden spoon so as not to disturb the men's card game, before going back to hoeing the rutabaga field.” MenGivingGamesImpossibleFeminismFieldsBirthBusyArguingDebateCardsKitchenToo BusySpoonsGiving BirthBitingWooden Spoons Author:Caitlin Moran
“I might take from the current political chaos a desire to somehow reflect its essential qualities in a story - the blatant lies that get accepted with repetition; the way mass media seems to be agitating people en masse; the way, particularly, that a relatively lucky and affluent and privileged population can be undone by a certain spoiled quality; that feeling when two decent people violently disagree, because they are arguing from two non-intersecting data sets - well, the list goes on.” PeopleWayWellsTwoStoriesFeelingsSeemsMightPoliticalLyingDesireCertainQualityMediaGoes OnLuckyEssentialsMassChaosPopulationCurrentsArguingListsAcceptedDataDecentDisagreePrivilegedRepetitionSpoiledUndoneMass MediaAffluentBlatant Lies Author:George Saunders
“[This approach] displays the characteristic philosophical lust to vanquish the skeptic by arguing him out of his skepticism, without appeal to moral and political considerations or to the facts of everyday life. [...] But more often than not, if you give the skeptic everything he wants, then he will be successful in repulsing your attacks and terrorizing your position.” IfsWantGivingFactsPoliticalMoralSuccessfulPositionApproachPhilosophicalEverydayArguingLustAppealsCharacteristicsBeing SuccessfulConsiderationDisplaySkepticismEveryday LifeSkepticVanquish Author:Dale Jamieson
“Our advanced and fashionable thinkers are, naturally, out on a wide swing of the pendulum, away from the previous swing of the pendulum.... They seem to have an un-argue-out-able position, as is the manner of sophists, but this is no guarantee that they are right.” ThinkingSeemsAbleSciencePositionWideArguingGuaranteesThinkerSwingsFashionableGuarantees ThatPendulums Author:Anthony Standen
“Read your work out loud. Don't give me that look. Read your work aloud. Don't argue. Don't fight. It will help. I promise. I promise. I guarantee it. If you find it didn't help you, lemme know. I will let you Taser me in the face. And by "me," I mean, some other guy who will be my stand-in. Probably some real estate agent or tollbooth attendant.” IfsKnowsGivingWritingLooksMeanRealHelpingFacesGuyFightingPromiseGive MeWork OutArguingAgentsLoudGuaranteesEstatesI PromiseOther GuysEstate AgentsTasers Author:Chuck Wendig
“I think that if there are positions that you can't argue... then the responsibility is probably to resign. If one's own conscience is opposed to the requirements and responsibilities of the job, then it's time to leave the job.” IfsThinkingJobsResponsibilityPositionConscienceArguingRequirementsTime To Leave Author:Elena Kagan
“If someone puts his trust in God in a matter, let him not argue with his brother about it.” IfsInspirationalMatterChristianReligiousBrotherArguingOrthodoxTrust In God Author:Marcus Eremita
“A man who hates the passion cuts off their causes. But a man who remains among their causes experiences even against his will the conflict from the passions. It is not possible to be mentally inclined toward a passion if one does not love its cause. For who, disdaining shame, is given to vainglory? Or who, loving lowliness, is bothered by dishonor? Who, having a broken and humble heart, accepts fleshly sweetness? Or who, believing in Christ, is concerned about temporal things, or argues about them?” IfsMenInspirationalBelieveHeartDoeChristianHatePassionGivenCausesChristReligiousAcceptingCuttingBrokenConflictConcernedShameRemainsHumbleArguingOrthodoxSweetnessBotheredDishonorLowlinessTemporal ThingsHumble Heart Author:Marcus Eremita
“Mental effort, I would argue, is relatively rare. Most of the time we coast.” EffortArguingCoast Author:Daniel Kahneman
“It's better not to argue with women... When people push boundaries too far, it's not because they are strong but because they are weak. But maybe weakness is not the worst quality for a woman.” PeopleStrongQualityWorstWeaknessWeakArguingBoundaries Author:Vladimir Putin
“That's what you have to find in architecture. You have to find your signature. When you find it, you're the only expert on it. People can say they like it or don't like it. They can argue about it, but it's yours.” PeopleArchitectureArguingExpertsSignatures Author:Frank Gehry
“[Bruce] sees a lot of himself in [Batman], you know? You could argue that something even worse than what happened to Bruce happened to [Duke's] parents, who are now Joker-ized*. They're not just gone or irretrievably lost. And I'm NOT curing them, so you can put that out there! There's no relief from that.” KnowsLostParentGoneHappenedArguingReliefDukes Author:Scott Snyder
“It is the shared experience - [although] you're the conduit of the sound, the recipient is also in some way the author of the work, because if they weren't the author of the work they wouldn't be able to recognise it as an experience, you could argue. The more distance you can put between yourself and having any kind of objective the more likely it is to appear.” IfsWayKindAbleSoundDistanceArguingObjectivesRecogniseShared Experiences Author:Daniel O'Sullivan
“I would argue that there's been a backlash this year [2016]. They [the Kochs] pushed the [Republican] party too far right. The other thing that the backlash is against is the sense that politicians have been bought and sold.” YearsHas BeensPartyPoliticianRepublicanArguingRepublican PartyBacklash Author:Jane Mayer
“So we [with Kate DiCamillo] would act them out, we would toss ideas back and forth, we would laugh, we would argue. Sometimes it went really well, sometimes it was such a pain in the ass. Our other rule was that we wouldn't work on it at all when we weren't in the other's presence. It was really hard not to do that. We'd start going on email back and forth, 'What do you think about this, what do you think about that?' But, no, no, no, it had to be live. So we forced ourselves not to look at it except during those two-hour stretches when we were actually with each other.” ThinkingWellsLooksTwoIdeasSometimesHardPainHoursLaughingArguingAssEmailBack And ForthKateToss Author:Alison McGhee
“I think Fichte did take it further than Kant by arguing that we can regard the moral law as objectively valid only by seeing it as addressed to us by another being, even though Fichte thought God could not literally be a person who could address us.” ThinkingPersonsLawMoralSeeingRegardArguingAddressesMoral Law Author:Allen W. Wood
“I would argue that if you understand how the cells of the brain are organized into circuits, almost computational circuits if you will, and we see how information flows through those circuits and how it's transformed, we might have a much firmer grasp on why our brains make decisions the way that they do. If we get a handle on that, maybe we can overcome some of our limitations and at the very least we'll understand why we do what we do.” IfsWayMightDecisionBrainInformationFlowOvercomingArguingHandleCellsLimitationOrganizedTransformedCircuitsWhy We Do What We DoInformation Flow Author:Edward Boyden
“If you could map out a human brain, an open question is, if you simulated it, would it be you? Now, as we discussed earlier, we don't have a great definition or even a good technological handle to know whether something is conscious or not just by looking at it, so there's that aspect that we're not ready to answer, I would argue. But it raises very interesting questions about the nature of identity.” IfsKnowsHumansAnswersInterestingBrainIdentityReadyConsciousAspectRaisesDefinitionsArguingHandleMapsBe YouTechnologicalVery InterestingNot ReadyHuman Brain Author:Edward Boyden
“We have to gamble, and sometimes lose as George Ainslie argues; this keeps the appetite for life sharp.” SometimesLosesArguingAppetiteGambleAppetite For Life Author:Catherine Wilson
“It used to be that nobody would really argue with a woman, because what she thought (unless it was by way of providing helpful comments about one's own work) just didn't matter.” WayMatterUsedArguingUsed To BeHelpfulCommentProviding Author:Catherine Wilson
“You could analyze me and say that my father leaving and being absent was a motivator for early ambition, trying to prove myself to this apparition who had vanished. You could argue that me being a mixed kid in a place where there weren't a lot of black kids around might have spurred on my ambitions. You could go through a whole litany of things that sparked me wanting to do something important.” TryingImportantWholeMightKidsFatherBlackProveAmbitionLeavingArguingAbsentMy AmbitionProve MyselfApparitionsFather Leaving Author:Barack Obama
“I would argue that the management of creativity requires a skill set that's relatively different from the traditional management skill set that is appropriate to a large, complex, industrial-era organization.” DifferentCreativitySkillsOrganizationManagementComplexesArguingTraditionalErasAppropriateManagement Skills Author:John Kao
“I would argue that search has made the world a better place. It has done so for reasons that arbitrarily could completely change that - not arbitrarily at all but to completely change how that plays out based upon the needs of profitability. So it's totally unreliable and it has many layers nested underneath that of many ulterior motives nested underneath it.” WorldNeedsMadeReasonDonePlayArguingMotiveLayersBetter PlaceUnreliableProfitabilityUlterior Motive Author:Jonathon Keats
“I disagree with those who argue that evolutionary biology and the existence of God are incompatible.” ExistenceArguingBiologyDisagreeExistence Of GodEvolutionary Biology Author:Elliott Sober
“I have spent a lot of time arguing that the theory of group selection is not the stupid, pernicious doctrine that many biologists once claimed it to be. The theory is not just conceptually coherent; there are adaptations out there in nature (like reduced virulence in some viruses) that evolved because there was group selection.” GroupsStupidTheoryArguingDoctrineSelectionAdaptationVirusesPerniciousBiologist Author:Elliott Sober
“"The New York Times" is reporting correctly that women had accused a presidential candidate of sexual assault. Now that's news on any level. I mean you can't argue that that's not news.” MeanLevelsNew YorkNewsArguingPresidentialCandidatesAssaultAccusedNew York TimesSexual AssaultPresidential Candidate Author:Megyn Kelly
“I would argue that we have a patriotic duty to move toward energy independence and clean energy. It is a matter of national security - energy security, climate security, economic security, job security, everything.” MatterJobsMovingEnergyEconomicSecurityDutyIndependenceCleanClimateArguingPatrioticNational SecurityClean EnergyEconomic SecurityEnergy IndependenceEnergy Security Author:Van Jones
“A common rhetorical strategy of politicians and others is to frame their opponents' views in the worst possible light, tacitly suggesting that all versions of the view must be committed to some particularly deplorable conclusion. Philosophers are not immune to this way of arguing.” WayLightViewsCommonWorstPoliticianStrategyPhilosopherCommittedArguingVersionsConclusionOpponentsImmuneSuggestingRhetoricalRhetorical Strategies Author:Dale Jamieson
“[Michael] Chabon is arguing in favor of what is at the same time an old-fashioned and very forward-thinking opening up - of taking off the class associations with those labels, because we grew up, or I certainly grew up, feeling that, "Oh, there's literary fiction, and beneath that, there's these other things." He's actually saying that they're all of equal merit, and in many cases, that work in the genres, or work that draws from the genres is more entertaining for readers, since it is our job to entertain people.” PeopleThinkingFeelingsJobsFictionClassCasesGrewReaderEqualGrew UpDrawsArguingFavorsOpeningLabelsGenreMeritAssociationEntertainingOld FashionedOpening UpGenre IsForward Thinking Author:Emily Barton
“I would argue that one of the major problems with our blind trust in algorithms is that we can propagate discriminatory patterns without acknowledging any kind of intent.” KindProblemMajorsBlindPatternsArguingAlgorithmsMajor ProblemsBlind Trust Author:Cathy O'Neil
“Though the archbishop may rightly argue that they are objectively wrong in their positions, I don't understand how he can presume to know the consciences of Vice President [Joe] Biden and Senator [Tim] Kaine sufficiently to question the genuineness of their faith and condemn them personally.” KnowsMayPresidentPositionConscienceVicesArguingSenatorsVice PresidentBidenGenuineness Author:John I. Jenkins
“I went back into politics only when it was clear that things weren't going as they should have in my party. I was always arguing, I argued with everyone - with my father, with the leaders I had known since I was a child...and one day, it was in 1955, one of them exclaimed, 'You do nothing but criticize! If you think you can correct things, correct them. Go ahead, why don't you try?' Well, I could never resist a challenge, so I tried.” IfsThinkingShouldTryingWellsChildrenFatherChallengesPartyKnownLeaderClearOne DayShould HaveArguingCriticizeAlways Arguing Author:Indira Gandhi
“I would argue [princess] Margaret is the tragic figure of the century.” CenturyFiguresArguingTragicPrincess Author:Vanessa Kirby
“I think that 99% of the snipers who take shots at me from electronic foxholes also realize they could never withstand the sort of public disparagement, nor the revelation of so many personal details, that I've endured for years and still remain as impenitent, obnoxious, and ready to argue all critics into the dirt as I am. I think this also jacks up their hatred level, because they realize they'd never be so strong-willed.” ThinkingYearsStillsStrongRealizingLevelsReadyShotsHatredCriticsDetailsArguingRevelationsDirtObnoxiousStrong WilledSnipersFoxholes Author:Jim Goad
“If [Donald] Trump loses narrowly, it will make it much harder for the GOP to unify. Under that scenario, the Trumpists are likely to argue that the election was lost because the Republican establishment failed to rally around the choice their own voters made.” IfsMadeChoicesLostLosesTrumpRepublicanHarderElectionArguingVotersEstablishmentScenariosGop Author:Mara Liasson
“There's certainly enough writers and directors and actors who secretly aspire to make movies and films that agree with the center-right perspective, and I would argue the majority perspective in America.” EnoughAmericaFilmActorsPerspectiveDirectorsAgreeMajorityArguingAspire Author:Andrew Breitbart
“I spoke to a blogger. It was election time when we were doing the movie and Hillary Clinton was still in the running. This blogger was doing a story on democratic women who were anti-Hillary. He was on the computer speaking to these women and it made me realize that you can reach a much broader audience online but on the other hand Russell's [Crowe] character argues that you still need to get on the streets and see people face to face, and check your facts.” PeopleNeedsMadeStillsCharacterFactsStoriesHandsRunningFacesRealizingAudienceStreetsComputerElectionDemocraticClintonArguingChecksOnlineSpokesFace To FaceBloggersElection Time Author:Rachel McAdams
“[Economy] is flat on the floor, and the paramedics have arrived. And they shouldn't argue about whether they put the resuscitation equipment a quarter of an inch this way or a quarter of an inch this way, or they shouldn't start criticizing the patient, because he didn't have a blood pressure test or something like that. They should do what's needed right now.” WayShouldEconomyBloodNeededRight NowTestsPressurePatientArguingFlatsCriticizeQuartersInchesEquipmentBlood PressureParamedicsResuscitation Author:Warren Buffett
“Seriously. It was running out at Rolling Stone. First of all, they didn't feel the need for a dissident conservative voice in a world where certain conservative aspects had become intellectually dominant. I would actually argue against that, but on the surface of it, in the [Bill] Clinton years the market economy triumphed, certain libertarian ideas became ordinary, and certain early-20th-century ideas about centralization of government and economic planning and socialism with a small "s" had obviously gone out the window. The Cold War was over, blah blah blah.” WorldNeedsFeelsYearsFirstsIdeasWarGovernmentRunningCertainVoiceEconomyGoneEconomicCenturyColdOrdinaryAspectStonesWindowBillsClintonConservativeSurfaceLibertarianArguingPlanningSocialismRollingDominantCold War20th CenturyRolling StonesMarket EconomyBlahDissidentsCentralization Author:P. J. O'Rourke
“Why I supported Keith Ellison for chairing the DNC because I know Keith. And I know he`s not going to take a lot of stuff. He`s going to be in the halls of Congress arguing. But he is going to go out to the protests and talk to people.” PeopleKnowsStuffCongressArguingProtestHallsKeith Author:Lawrence O'Donnell
“If you want to take off your journalist outfit and declare yourself a pundit and go argue against Donald Trump, go for it. But you can't wear both hats.” IfsWantTrumpArguingJournalistHatsPundits Author:Megyn Kelly
“I thought you'd be arguing [in the law school], and then I realized you have to read all these cases, and it's mostly writing, and then I just thought, "Well, I might as well stay and get the degree."” WritingWellsMightSchoolLawCasesDegreesArguingI RealizedLaw School Author:Rich Fulcher
“It's unfiltered conversation and I love it. I also like to argue with children, so it's the perfect platform for me.” ChildrenPerfectConversationArguingPlatforms Author:Chelsea Handler
“One could argue [Bob] Corker has been more supportive of [Donald] Trump`s foreign policy skepticism of the establishment than anybody else.” Has BeensPolicyTrumpArguingEstablishmentForeign PolicyBobSkepticismSupportive Author:Chuck Todd
“In many ways the book [Saving Calvinism] is trying to argue for a more popular audience things I've said in some more scholarly works, namely, that the Reformed tradition is broader and more variegated than is often reported today, and that we need to recapture something of this in order that we don't end up unnecessarily narrow in our doctrine and in order to keep some perspective.” WayNeedsTryingSaidBookEndsTodayOrderAudiencePerspectiveTraditionArguingDoctrineSavingScholarlyCalvinism Author:Oliver D. Crisp
“The book [Saving Calvinism] argues in each case that the Reformed tradition is broader and deeper than we might think at first glance - not that there are people on the margins of the tradition saying crazy things we should pay attention to, but rather that there are resources within the "mainstream" so to speak, which give us reason to think that the tradition is nowhere near as doctrinally narrow as the so-called "Five Points of Calvinism" might lead one to believe.” PeopleThinkingGivingShouldFirstsBelieveBookReasonMightSpeakPayAttentionCasesFiveCrazyResourcesTraditionDeeperArguingSavingPay AttentionMainstreamGlancesMarginsCrazy ThingsCalvinism Author:Oliver D. Crisp
“In the chapter on the nature of the atonement [in the book saving Calvinism] I argue that it is a mistake to think that penal substitution is the only option on the doctrine of atonement.” ThinkingBookMistakeArguingDoctrineSavingChaptersAtonementSubstitutionCalvinism Author:Oliver D. Crisp