#argument

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. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

#after #any #anybody #argument #authoritarian

But black people fall for that same argument, and they go around talking about law breakers. We did not make the laws in this country. We are neither morally nor legally confined to those laws. Those laws that keep them up, keep us down. ↗

— H. Rap Brown

#argument #around #black #confined #country

When you let someone else win an argument, often you both end up winners. ↗

— Richard Carlson

#both #else #end #often #someone

What we've been hearing over and over again is that the reason Republicans are opposed to the surtax is because of the concern of its impact on job creation. Well, if you carve out employers, you take away that argument. ↗

— Susan Collins

#argument #away #because #been #carve

The most powerful argument of all for saving open space is economics; in most states, tourism is the number two industry. ↗

— Jim Fowler

#economics #industry #most #most powerful #number

I say, If everybody in this house lives where it's God first, friends and family second and you third, we won't ever have an argument. ↗

— Jeff Foxworthy

#argument #ever #everybody #family #first

Men are apt to mistake the strength of their feeling for the strength of their argument. The heated mind resents the chill touch and relentless scrutiny of logic. ↗

— William E. Gladstone

#argument #chill #feeling #heated #logic

I didn't write about my mother much in the third year after she died. I was still trying to get my argument straight: When her friends or our relatives wondered why I was still so hard on her, I could really lay out the case for what it had been like to be raised by someone who had loathed herself, her husband, even her own name. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#after #argument #been #case #could

'The Skeptical Environmentalist' was much more the idea of the scientific argument of realizing that we need to be skeptical about a lot of these stories that we hear and to put them in context. ↗

— Bjorn Lomborg

#argument #context #environmentalist #hear #idea

I now add, farther, that the apostle's argument is so far from proving it to be the duty of people to obey, and submit to, such rulers as act in contradiction to the public good, and so to the design of their office, that it proves the direct contrary. ↗

— Jonathan Mayhew

#add #apostle #argument #contradiction #contrary