#argument

If this phrase of the 'balance of power' is to be always an argument for war, the pretext for war will never be wanting, and peace can never be secure. ↗

— John Bright

#argument #balance #balance of power #never #peace

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

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

Their argument, and I think it's a correct one, is that they'll make more money from the trades and the hardcovers if nobody messes with the creative team. ↗

— Mark Millar

#correct #creative #i #i think #make

News, by and large, has been the purest of all the television mediums, or at least we've tried to keep it that way, and there constantly is the argument about the separation between church and state. ↗

— Leslie Moonves

#argument #been #between #church #constantly

The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#argument #condition #existence #irrationality #rather

That God cannot lie, is no advantage to your argument, because it is no proof that priests can not, or that the Bible does not. ↗

— Thomas Paine

#argument #because #bible #cannot #does