#argument

Reducing every issue to an argument can become stale but it's often a very good way of clarifying issues. ↗

— Evan Davis

#become #every #good #good way #issue

Lincoln had no such person that he could talk with. Often, as a result, he debated with himself, and he would draw up a kind of list of the pros and cons of an argument, and carefully figure them out, and he might test them in public. ↗

— David Herbert Donald

#carefully #cons #could #debated #draw

For your own good is a persuasive argument that will eventually make a man agree to his own destruction. ↗

— Janet Frame

#argument #destruction #eventually #good #his

To make the argument that the media has a left- or right-wing, or a liberal or a conservative bias, is like asking if the problem with Al-Qaeda is do they use too much oil in their hummus. ↗

— Al Franken

#argument #asking #bias #conservative #liberal

A half truth, like half a brick, is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carries better. ↗

— Stephen Leacock

#always #argument #better #brick #carries

If you feel yourself to be above the mass, speak so as to raise the mass to the height of your argument. ↗

— George Henry Lewes

#argument #feel #height #mass #raise

The argument that someone is a bad man is an inadequate argument for war and certainly an inadequate and unacceptable argument for regime change. ↗

— John Major

#bad #bad man #certainly #change #inadequate

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

Our work in Britain suggests that radicalization is driven by an ideology which claims that Muslims around the world are being oppressed and - and this is the key bit of the argument - which then legitimizes violence in their supposed defense. ↗

— Pauline Neville-Jones

#around #being #bit #britain #claims

But, you know, there's still an argument, there's still ten states that outlaw premarital sex, and many more states where adultery is still outlawed and a crime. ↗

— Liam Neeson

#argument #crime #know #many #more