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“The strongest argument against totalitarianism may be a recognition of a universal human nature; that all humans have innate desires for life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. The doctrine of the blank slate... is a totalitarian's dream.”

“A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this - that offences against Charity are about the only ones which men on their death-beds can be made - not to understand - but to feel - as crime.”

Men Feels Made Literature Strong Christ Crime Bed Argument Charity Offence Death Bed

Book:Complete Collection of Edgar Allan Poe - 170+ eBooks (Complete Tales, Poems, Novels, Essays, Miscellaneous, Play)

Source: Complete Collection of Edgar Allan Poe - 170+ eBooks (Complete Tales, Poems, Novels, Essays, Miscellaneous, Play)

“Don't treat your heart like an action figure wrapped in plastic and never used. And don't try to give me that nerd argument that your heart is a 'Batman' with a limited-edition silver bat-erang and therefore if it stays in its original packing it increases in value.”

Ifs Giving Trying Heart Action Used Values Figures Argument Treats Give Me Increase Originals Silver Plastic Bats Nerd Packing Action Figures Limited Edition

Author:Amy Poehler

“Most of the arguments to which I am party fall somewhat short of being impressive, owing to the fact that neither I nor my opponent knows what we are talking about.”

Knows Facts Humor Funny Fall Party Talking Comedy Argument Opponents Falling Apart Impressive Owing

Author:Robert Benchley

“No rational argument will have a rational effect on a man who does not want to adopt a rational attitude.”

Men Want Doe Reason Attitude Effects Argument Rational Positive Attitude

Book:The Open Society and Its Enemies

Source: The Open Society and Its Enemies

“Unhappy, let alone angry, religious people provide more persuasive arguments for atheism and secularism than do all the arguments of atheists.”

People Religious Atheism Argument Angry Atheist Unhappy Secularism Persuasive

Author:Dennis Prager

“I build no system. I ask an end to privilege, the abolition of slavery, equality of rights, and the reign of law. Justice, nothing else; that is the alpha and omega of my argument: to others I leave the business of governing the world.”

World Ends Law Asks Justice Rights Argument Slavery Privilege Reign Governing Abolition Alphas Abolitionist Alpha And Omega Abolition Of Slavery

Book:What is Property?

Source: What is Property?

“No references to the need to fight terror can be an argument for restricting human rights.”

Needs Humans Fighting Rights Argument Human Rights Terror

Author:Vladimir Putin

“The argument that the two parties should represent opposed ideals and policies, one, perhaps, of the Right and the other of the Left, is a foolish idea acceptable only to doctrinaire and academic thinkers.”

Should Two Ideas Left Party Policy Ideals Argument Foolish Thinker Academic Acceptable Foreign Relations

Book:Tragedy and Hope: A History of the World in Our Time

Source: Tragedy and Hope: A History of the World in Our Time

“Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; an argument an exchange of ignorance.”

Knowledge Ignorance Argument Anger Intelligence Discussion Contention

Author:Robert Quillen

“If I can make a career for myself after Harry Potter, and it goes well, and is varied and with longevity, then that puts to bed the 'child actors argument'.”

Ifs Wells Children I Can Actors Careers Bed Argument Longevity Potters Child Actors

Author:Daniel Radcliffe

“If you desire to be pure, have firm faith, and slowly go on with your devotional practices without wasting your energy in useless scriptural discussions and arguments. Your little brain will otherwise be muddled.”

Ifs Littles Desire Energy Brain Practice Goes On Pure Argument Useless Firm Discussion Devotional

Book:Sayings: The Most Exhaustive Collection of Them, Their Number Being 1120

Source: Sayings: The Most Exhaustive Collection of Them, Their Number Being 1120

“My wife Mary and I have been married for forty-seven years and not once have we had an argument serious enough to consider divorce; murder, yes, but divorce, never.”

“The truth is that killing innocent people is always wrong - and no argument or excuse, no matter how deeply believed, can ever make it right. No religion on earth condones the killing of innocent people; no faith tradition tolerates the random killing of our brothers and sisters on this earth.”

People Matter Truth Earth Religion Sin Brother Truth Is Argument Tradition Murder Killing Excuse Innocent Tolerate Brothers And Sisters Sufi No Excuses Wrongdoing Always Wrong

Author:Feisal Abdul Rauf

“Words are so often used in the opposite sense, as a screen of diversion. It's the struggle towards truthfulness which is the same whether one is writing a poem, a novel or an argument.”

Writing Used Novel Struggle Argument Opposites Screens Truthfulness Diversion

Author:John Berger

“People's minds are changed through observation and not through argument.”

People Mind Business Changed Argument Observation Contention

Book:Will Rogers' World: America's Foremost Political Humorist Comments on the Twenties and Thirties--and Eighties and Nineties

Source: Will Rogers' World: America's Foremost Political Humorist Comments on the Twenties and Thirties--and Eighties and Nineties

“Insults are the arguments employed by those who are in the wrong.”

Argument Insult Employed Comeback Insulted Insult To Injury

Author:Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“There are many who criticise the United Nations. And those of us who know this institution well know that it is not immune from criticism. But those who argue against the United Nations advance no credible argument as to what should replace it. Whatever its imperfections, the United Nations represents a necessary democracy of states.”

Knows Should Wells States Nations United Democracy Argument Criticism Institutions Arguing Imperfection United Nations Immune Credible Criticise

Author:Kevin Rudd

“Arguments of convenience lack integrity and inevitably trip you up.”

Journey Integrity Travel Argument Funny Travel Convenience Lack Of Integrity

Book:Public Statements of Donald H. Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense, 2001

Source: Public Statements of Donald H. Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense, 2001

“A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep.”

World Poetry Names Sides Sleep Courage Poet Shapes Argument Poetry Is Fraud Going To Sleep Great Poetry Poetry By Poets Satanic Verses

Author:Salman Rushdie

“A mature society understands that at the heart of democracy is argument.”

Heart Democracy Argument Mature

Author:Salman Rushdie

“Writers have an opinion about the world and offer arguments about the world. They should offer contemplation.”

World Should Opinion Offers Argument Contemplation

Author:Salman Rushdie

“The response of anybody interested in liberty is that we all have a say and the ability to have an argument is exactly what liberty is, even though it may never be resolved. In any authoritarian society the possessor of power dictates, and if you try and step outside he will come after you.”

Ifs Trying May Ability Liberty Steps Argument Response

Author:Salman Rushdie

“I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.”

Philosophy Might Funny Dies Belief Fun Fear Atheism Argument Philosophical Aging Rage

Author:Bertrand Russell

“Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.”

Food Picks Red Argument Cooking Cups Dawn Culinary Wet Dew Berries Red Lipstick

Book:Farming: A Hand Book

Source: Farming: A Hand Book

“Liberty is a great celestial Goddess, strong, beneficent, and austere, and she can never descend upon a nation by the shouting of crowds, nor by arguments of unbridled passion, nor by the hatred of class against class.”

Passion Strong Nations Liberty Class Argument Hatred Crowds Goddess Celestial Shouting Unbridled Passion

Book:The Changing World: And Lectures to Theosophical Students; Fifteen Lectures Delivered in London During May, June, and July 1909

Source: The Changing World: And Lectures to Theosophical Students; Fifteen Lectures Delivered in London During May, June, and July 1909

“Faith is an excitement and an enthusiasm: it is a condition of intellectual magnificence to which we must cling as to a treasure, and not squander on our way through life in the small coin of empty words, or in exact and priggish argument.”

Way Life Conditions Intellectual Argument Empty Treasure Enthusiasm Excitement Sand Coins Magnificence Squandering Empty Words Flipping A Coin Excitement Of Life

Author:George Sand

“Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better.”

Religion Modern Argument Function Advertising Substitutes Advertisements Adverts Advertisement Negative

Book:The Works of George Santayana

Source: The Works of George Santayana

“A common creation demands a common sacrifice, and perhaps not the least potent argument in favour of a constructed international language is the fact that it is equally foreign, or apparently so, to the traditions of all nationalities.”

Facts Language Common Sacrifice Creation Demand Argument Tradition International Favour Nationality International Language

Book:Selected Writings of Edward Sapir in Language, Culture and Personality

Source: Selected Writings of Edward Sapir in Language, Culture and Personality

“I think fiction isn't so good at being for or against things in general - the rhetorical argument a short story can make is only actualized by the accretion of particular details, and the specificity of these details renders whatever conclusions the story reaches invalid for wider application.”

Thinking Stories Fiction Particular Argument Details Conclusion Application Short Story Rhetorical Specificity

Author:George Saunders

“Preaching to the choir actually arms the choir with arguments and elevates the choir's discourse. There's a reason the right does it and does it well and triumphs.”

Wells Doe Reason Arms Argument Triumph Preaching Discourse Choir Preaching To The Choir

Author:Dan Savage

“Be able to analyze statistics, which can be used to support or undercut almost any argument.”

Able Used Literature Support Argument Statistics Undercut

Author:Marilyn vos Savant

“Be able to defend your arguments in a rational way. Otherwise, all you have is an opinion.”

Way Able Literature Opinion Argument Rational

Author:Marilyn vos Savant

“Evolution has long been the target of illogical arguments that use presumption.”

Long Use Literature Evolution Argument Target Presumption Illogical

Author:Marilyn vos Savant

“Capital punishment is the source of many an argument, both good and bad.”

Source Argument Punishment Good And Bad Capital Punishment

Author:Marilyn vos Savant

“Do not let arguments of expediency persuade you. That is the slow road to oblivion. That is the tortured path to undoing step by step, bit by bit, as the river creates a canyon, the way of life that we love.”

Way Bits Steps Path Argument Rivers Oblivion Canyons Expediency Undoing

Author:Charles Schumer

“My life is my argument.”

Life Is Argument

Author:Albert Schweitzer

“I've been keeping a diary for thirty-three years and write in it every morning. Most of it's just whining, but every so often there'll be something I can use later: a joke, a description, a quote. It's an invaluable aid when it comes to winning arguments. 'That's not what you said on February 3, 1996,' I'll say to someone.”

“The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.”

“In a false quarrel there is no true valor.”

Argument Quarrels Valor

Author:William Shakespeare

“It is true that Mr. Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, after which there was a commitment to give 40 acres and a mule. That's where the argument, to this day, of reparations starts. We never got the 40 acres. We went all the way to Herbert Hoover, and we never got the 40 acres. We didn't get the mule. So we decided we'd ride this donkey as far as it would take us.”

Way Giving Commitment Argument Decided This Day Emancipation Acres Donkey Proclamation Reparations Mules Hoover Emancipation Proclamation

Author:Al Sharpton

“The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it.”

Want Believe Moments Belief Argument Blind Contention

Author:George Bernard Shaw

“There will soon come an armed contest between capital and labor. They will oppose each other, not with words and arguments, but with shot and shell, gun-powder and cannon. The better classes are tired of the insane howling of the lower strata and they mean to stop them.”

Mean Class Gun Shots Argument Labor Tired Insane Shells Contests Powder Cannons

Author:William Tecumseh Sherman

“Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.”

Language Silence Communication Argument Anger Silent Parenting Hardest Silence Is Insperational Silence Is Golden Refutation

Book:Uncle Sam's Uncle Josh: Or, Josh Billings on Practically Everything, Distilled from Josh's Rum and Tansy New England Wit by Donald Day

Source: Uncle Sam's Uncle Josh: Or, Josh Billings on Practically Everything, Distilled from Josh's Rum and Tansy New England Wit by Donald Day

“John Foster Dulles had called on me in his capacity as Secretary of State, and he had exhausted every argument to persuade me to place Cambodia under the protection of the South East Asia Treaty Organization.”

States Capacity Argument Organization South Protection East Secretary Exhausted Asia Treaties Cambodia East Asia

Book:My war with the CIA: Cambodia's fight for survival

Source: My war with the CIA: Cambodia's fight for survival

“All the arguments to prove man's superiority cannot shatter this hard fact: in suffering, the animals are our equals.”

“Go beyond science, into the region of metaphysics. Real religion is beyond argument. It can only be lived both inwardly and outwardly.”

Real Religion Argument Regions Metaphysics

Author:Sivananda

“I hate this argument that says little Britain or something outside, or Britain is part of a wider Europe. We can both be within our trading relationships within Europe but we can also be a fantastic global trader.”

Littles Hate Europe Argument I Hate Fantastic Britain Trading Traders Little Britain

Author:Iain Duncan Smith

“The argument of socialists, that people really want to share, beyond a reasonable level of charity, is rubbish, though it is espoused by a lot of rich, pious hypocrites who want to share only enough to avoid widespread starvation, mob violence, and government seizure of more of their incomes.”

People Want Enough Government Levels Rich Violence Share Argument Charity Income Reasonable Hypocrite Starvation Rubbish Pious Seizures

Author:Conrad Black

“An argument fatal to the communist theory, is suggested by the fact, that a desire for property is one of the elements of our nature.”

Facts Desire Theory Elements Argument Property Communist

Book:Social Statics: Great Essays

Source: Social Statics: Great Essays

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