#argument

Arguing with anonymous strangers on the Internet is a sucker's game because they almost always turn out to be—or to be indistinguishable from—self-righteous sixteen-year-olds possessing infinite amounts of free time. ↗

— Neal Stephenson

#trolls #free

It's often a bad sign when people defend themselves against charges which haven't been made. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#defensiveness #noam-chomsky #september- #iraq

I remember having an argument with Alan, I said the Queen's not just going to call the guy up and send him out to do it. And Alan says, well, how would a monarch give orders to her assassin. ↗

— Eddie Campbell

#argument #assassin #call #give #going

The argument for getting our own house in order is not an argument for turning our back on the world. We cannot and should not do that. ↗

— Chris Christie

#back #cannot #getting #house #order

The long term versus the short term argument is one used by losers. ↗

— Lord Acton

#long #long term #losers #short #short term

A knock-down argument; 'tis but a word and a blow. ↗

— John Dryden

#blow #tis #word

A flourishing, morally credible media is a vital component in the maintenance of genuinely public talk, argument about common good. ↗

— Rowan D. Williams

#argument #common #common good #component #credible

My argument is that charity does indeed start at home, but it doesn't stop there. ↗

— Andrew Mitchell

#charity #does #home #indeed #start

Part of the reason that our politics seems so tough right now and facts and science and argument does not seem to be winning the day all the time is because we're hardwired not to always think clearly when we're scared. And the country's scared. ↗

— Barack Obama

#argument #because #clearly #country #day

My life is my argument. ↗

— Albert Schweitzer

#life #my life