“I think that the, Ted Cruz is not even a natural-born citizen, argument will resonate for at least the next few weeks.” ThinkingNextBornNaturalWeekCitizensArgumentCruz Author:Geraldo Rivera
“Many of the greatest works of philosophy seem to me to be valuable not because of their arguments, but because they offer us perspectives that open up new possibilities. They show us how we might start in different places, and not buy into the assumptions tacitly made on the first pages of the philosophical works that have influenced us.” FirstsMadeDifferentPhilosophyShowsSeemsMightPossibilityPerspectiveOffersPagesArgumentPhilosophicalValuableAssumptionDifferent PlaceNew Possibilities Author:Philip Kitcher
“Mann was profoundly influenced by two philosophers, Schopenhauer and Nietzsche, who returned to the most ancient of all philosophical questions - "How to live?" - and whose writings offered novel perspectives for considering that question (much more perspective-offering than rigorous argument!)” WritingTwoNovelPerspectiveArgumentPhilosophicalAncientPhilosopherOfferingConsideringPhilosophical Questions Author:Philip Kitcher
“One of the things I want to do in the book is to explore how philosophy can be done in literature. I start doing that in the first chapter, by introducing the idea of "philosophy by showing". What literature/philosophy shows is how to look at some important facets of life in a new way, thus changing the frame in which subsequent philosophical argument proceeds.” WayWantFirstsLooksImportantBookIdeasDonePhilosophyShowsLiteratureArgumentPhilosophicalIntroducingChaptersNew WaysFacets Author:Philip Kitcher
“Philosophy by showing - including philosophy in literature - does truly valuable work in leading us to new perspectives from which our arguments can then begin. It does so by introducing new synthetic complexes, which we then reflect on from various points of view. When the complexes survive and grow, that initial showing has been philosophically decisive.” DoeHas BeensPhilosophyLiteratureGrowsViewsPerspectiveArgumentComplexesIncludingVariousValuablePoint Of ViewIntroducingInitialsSyntheticNew PerspectiveIntroducing New Author:Philip Kitcher
“I largely defer to the cognitive ethologists. I believe that the arguments that they make on this score are extremely persuasive. More than this, I do think as well that a priori objections by philosophers to successful research programs in the sciences have a very bad track record.” ThinkingBelieveWellsI BelieveSuccessfulRecordsResearchProgramArgumentTrackPhilosopherScoreObjectionsCognitivePersuasiveTrack Record Author:Hilary Kornblith
“I can definitely make an argument for atheism. I was very educated in scripture and dogma and the church, particularly the Catholic Church. I could not possibly know that I disagreed with religion unless I knew what I was disagreeing with.” KnowsI CanChurchAtheismArgumentCatholicScriptureEducatedDogmaCatholic Church Author:Amber Heard
“All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently to be a great evil.” ShowsEvilPovertyArgument Author:Samuel Johnson
“I am trying to get at the moral arguments and the ethical status of various attempts at enhancement, or genetic engineering, or the bid for designer children. But there are implications for society at large.” TryingChildrenMoralArgumentVariousDesignerEthicalEngineeringImplicationsGenetic EngineeringEnhancement Author:Michael Sandel
“My argument is not that we must never intervene in nature. My argument is that there is a moral difference between intervention for the sake of health, to cure or prevent disease, and intervention for the sake of achieving a competitive edge for our kids in a consumer society.” KidsDifferencesMoralAchieveDiseaseArgumentSakeEdgesCuresConsumersIntervention Author:Michael Sandel
“In Western Civilization - America and Britain - if you see people talking and it becomes an argument and voices are raised, you are not surprised if violence follows. Hopefully it won't, but you are not surprised.” PeopleIfsAmericaVoiceTalkingViolenceCivilizationArgumentRaisedWesternHopefullyBritainWestern CivilizationPeople Talking Author:John Gimlette
“If you travel in countries like Morocco, and I say that because I have just come from Morocco, if people are shouting at each other in an argument, violence is not going to follow. That would be just so far removed.” PeopleIfsCountryWould BeViolenceArgumentShoutingMorocco Author:John Gimlette
“Records can ruin you. That's why it's important to be as intimately familiar as possible with the history of recorded music, I guess. In a way, it's an argument for record collecting.” WayImportantRecordsArgumentFamiliarRuinsCollectingRecorded Music Author:Keith Fullerton Whitman
“No one appreciates a professional anymore. Everyone's a mystic. Which is why I take drunk Jim over acid Jim - the argument all roads eventually lead to.” ArgumentAppreciateDrunkAcidMystic Author:Dan Bejar
“The only thing going on is the progression of words and sentences across page after page and so suddenly we see this immersive kind of very attentive thinking, whether you are paying attention to a story or to an argument, or whatever. And what we know about the brain is the brain adapts to these types of tools.” ThinkingKnowsKindStoriesAttentionBrainTypePagesArgumentToolsSentencesPay AttentionProgression Author:Nicholas G. Carr
“I think we begin to lose the ability to read in the deepest, most interpretive ways because were not kind of calming our mind and just focusing on the argument or the story.” ThinkingWayMindKindStoriesLosesAbilityArgumentCalming Author:Nicholas G. Carr
“I hear from a lot of young women, you know, I don't want to call myself a feminist because I don't want to get in an argument with someone. And it's just not cool; like it's not a cool thing to be associated with.” KnowsWantYoungArgumentFeministYoung WomenCool Things Author:Jessica Valenti
“I have to do what I'm doing at the time. That's the most important thing. You might lose some people along the way, and you might gain other people on the way, that's just the way it is. But nevertheless, if you're driven by something, there is no argument about it; that's what you have to do.” PeopleIfsWayImportantMightLosesGainsArgumentImportant ThingsDrivenNevertheless Author:Paul Weller
“My father hated rock and roll - hated it. My first real argument with my father was over the Rolling Stones. And he never, ever liked rock and roll. He just liked me.” FirstsRealFatherRocksArgumentStonesHatedRollingRock And RollRolling Stones Author:Patti Smith
“I'm a very friendly person, and I think that's had a big impact on my work because I tend to be pretty good with not trying to always win every argument and things like that. I just sort of try to bring a lot of people together to talk.” PeopleThinkingTryingPersonsBigsTogetherWinningArgumentImpactFriendlyBig ImpactFriendly Person Author:Jimmy Wales
“Well, she's so alive, Julia Child. And Margaret is so - is so designed. She's so intent upon making her point. That's the most important thing, is that she win the argument, and there is nothing that stands in the way of that train, you know. But Julia's just alive in front of you. That's part of why people loved her. They lived it with her. They breathed it with her. And the mistakes were all part of it.” PeopleKnowsWayWellsChildrenImportantWinningMistakeAliveFrontsArgumentImportant ThingsTrainJulia Author:Meryl Streep
“People want to be inspired. They want to aspire to something. ... You can have the best product, the best service, the best argument in a debate. But without the effective words you still lose. In the end you need good principles and good language if you are to succeed.” PeopleIfsWantNeedsStillsEndsLanguageLosesPrinciplesProductsSucceedArgumentInspiredDebateAspireBe InspiredBest Service Author:Frank Luntz
“My wife and I have created our own language. We can be at a table with six other people and have an argument without anyone knowing. It doesn't even have to be out loud. It's bizarre.” PeopleLanguageKnowingWifeSixArgumentTablesMy WifeLoudBizarre Author:Pete Wentz
“It is a maxim received in life that, in general, we can determine more wisely for others than for ourselves. The reason of it is so dear in argument that it hardly wants the confirmation of experience.” WantLifeReasonArgumentDearDetermineMaximsConfirmation Author:Junius
“When an opinionated person starts to challenge something, his mind shuts out all that could clear up the matter. The argument irritates him, however just it might be, and it seems that he is afraid of discovering the truth.” MindPersonsMatterSeemsMightTruthChallengesClearArgumentDiscoveringOpinionatedDiscovering The Truth Author:Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable
“The strongest arguments prove nothing so long as the conclusions are not verified by experience. Experimental science is the queen of sciences and the goal of all speculation.” LongScienceGoalProveArgumentExperienceConclusionQueensStrongestSpeculationExperimental Science Author:Roger Bacon
“If you take anything that succeeded, just imagine it succeeding 10 years before or 10 years after, you could almost always make, with the same plausibility, the "it fit the times" argument.” IfsYearsImagineFitSucceedArgument Author:Cass Sunstein
“In supporting argument for segregation, Paul [the apostol] addresses the people in his epistle to the Colossians, and he tells them how to treat their slaves. "Slaves, obey your masters. Masters, be kind to yourslaves." Paul was in favor of a kinder and gentler slavery; it never occurred to him to raise the question about whether slavery itself was immoral.” PeopleKindMastersArgumentTreatsRaisesSlaverySlaveFavorsAddressesBe KindImmoralSegregationKinderColossians Author:John Shelby Spong
“It never really worked for me to have long arguments about motivation.” LongMotivationArgument Author:Susan Sarandon
“A lot of conservative writers have twisted that argument in the conversation around Judge [Gonzalo] Curiel and said this is identity politics as played by liberals. And that I think what they're trying to say is that progressives are the first to say.” ThinkingTryingFirstsSaidIdentityJudgingConversationArgumentConservativeTwistedIdentity Politics Author:Dahlia Lithwick
“If that were a winning argument, Donald Trump could get anybody off the bench on his cases by just something deeply offensive based on their background.” IfsWinningCasesTrumpArgumentBackgroundsOffensiveBenches Author:Deborah Rhode
“[Louis Brandeis] insisted on the necessity of public reason, which he thought could only be achieved if all of us just take the time to inform ourselves about the best arguments on all sides of questions so that we can make up our own minds.” IfsMindReasonSidesArgumentLouis Brandeis Author:Jeffrey Rosen
“Being a Christian does not mean that there is one way of living a Christian life, people do it differently in different cultures because they have different interpretations, that's how it should be. The disciples had arguments with Jesus! It is about listening to one another, and respecting one another with those differences.” PeopleWayShouldMeanDoeDifferentChristianCultureJesusDifferencesListeningArgumentChristian LifeOne WayInterpretationDiscipleDifferent CulturesDifferent Interpretations Author:Alan Green
“When we're talking about feminism, I get sort of lost in the argument. Because as a woman of color, I don't know where I belong in this argument. Where do I say, 'I would be happy to have less money'? How do you fight for your rights when I'm super-grateful to be here at all?” KnowsWould BeFightingLostTalkingRightsFeminismColorArgumentGrateful Author:Margaret Cho
“The part that the public sees is the arguments up at the podium and the briefs that we file. But a significant part of the job - in fact, I'd say I spend more of my time on this part of the job, which is deciding what the position of the United States will be in the cases that we're going to be participating in before the court.” StatesFactsJobsUnitedCasesUnited StatesPositionArgumentCourtSignificantMy TimeFilesParticipating Author:Donald Verrilli Jr.
“Very quickly the lawyers in the Justice Department pulled together a set of recommendations about how we ought to defend the law as a constitutional matter. And it was the lawyers in the Justice Department who thought that it was important to include the tax power argument as part of it.” ImportantMatterTogetherLawJusticeOughtTaxesArgumentLawyerDepartmentRecommendations Author:Donald Verrilli Jr.
“The moot court process in our office when we get ready, we - everybody, including the SG, does two moot courts for each argument. And they are phenomenal, and they predict 90 percent of the questions that I get asked, at least 90 percent.” DoeTwoProcessReadyOfficePercentArgumentCourtIncludingPhenomenal Author:Donald Verrilli Jr.
“People have got to make their best calls in what they think about a case when they're covering it. But I do think the lesson there, and I guess stating the obvious, that oral argument can as often send a false signal as an accurate signal about where the thing is going.” PeopleThinkingCasesLessonsArgumentObviousAccurateSignalsCoveringStating The Obvious Author:Donald Verrilli Jr.
“It's the spring of 2012, that the [Barak] Obama administration would be embracing the argument that the Affordable Care Act was a tax, and that was going to, itself, be a political albatross.” Would BeCarePoliticalTaxesSpringArgumentAdministrationAffordableAffordable Care ActAlbatrossBarak Obama Author:Donald Verrilli Jr.
“The most important quality for a judge is open- mindedness to the arguments.” ImportantQualityJudgingArgumentOpen Mindedness Author:Samuel Alito
“I'm afraid, is that there are a number of groups who really don't want a fair-minded judge who has an openness to both sides of the argument. Rather, they want judges who will impose their liberal agenda on the American people; views so liberal that they cannot prevail at the ballot box.” PeopleWantSidesViewsNumbersGroupsJudgingFairsArgumentBoxesAgendasOpennessBoth SidesBallots Author:John Cornyn
“Good judges are always open to the possibility of changing their minds based on the next brief that they read, or the next argument that's made by an attorney who's appearing before them, or a comment that is made by a colleague during the conference on the case when the judges privately discuss the case.” MindMadeNextCasesPossibilityJudgingArgumentCommentColleaguesConferencesAttorneyAppearingGood Judges Author:Samuel Alito
“I think Donald Trump is moving to - and will continue to move to the economic argument, as to why what he's doing is - represents a commitment to stand up to big business, to international corporations who favor more immigration and lower wages - that's what they favor - and a defense of the interest of the American people who go to work every day.” PeopleThinkingBigsMovingInterestEconomicTrumpCommitmentArgumentInternationalDefenseFavorsImmigrationCorporationsWagesBig Business Author:Jeff Sessions
“Hillary Clinton says nobody should be deported that entered illegally unless they commit a violent felony, which is an argument for open borders and American people reject that.” PeopleShouldArgumentClintonViolentCommitBordersRejectsFelony Author:Jeff Sessions
“I think that for most of our history, there was a nuanced reading of the Second Amendment until the decision by the late Justice [Antoine] Scalia and there was no argument until then that localities and states and the federal government had a right, as we do with every amendment, to impose reasonable regulation.” ThinkingStatesGovernmentReadingJusticeDecisionLateArgumentReasonableAmendmentsRegulationFederal GovernmentSecond AmendmentLocality Author:Hillary Clinton
“The long term versus the short term argument is one used by losers.” LongUsedTermArgumentLong TermSunsetLoserVersusShort Term Author:Lord Acton
“Political change and academic change and intellectual change are obviously crucial, but they don't necessarily change society. They can change a particular class and give everybody in that class great arguments, but that doesn't necessarily translate into the body of the culture.” GivingBodyPoliticalCultureClassParticularIntellectualArgumentCrucialAcademicTranslatePolitical Change Author:Eve Ensler
“The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.” InspirationalShouldProgressVictoryArgumentAimIntelligenceDiscussion Author:Joseph Joubert
“In exorcism, a verbal argument can never do anything. You can't ever beat the entity in a verbal argument because that's what he wants. It's only through a confront, a non-verbal confront, that anything happens. It has to be non-verbal.” WantHappensBeatsArgumentThings HappenEntityExorcism Author:William S. Burroughs
“Fighting with the media almost always is a mistake. You can't win the argument, the media has the last word, and most times your argument is not justified.” LastsFightingWinningMistakeMediaArgumentJustifiedLast WordsCan't Win Author:Roger Ailes