#argument

I think instead writers and publishers and readers need to go to the places where people are, and make the argument that there is great value to the quiet, contemplative process of reading a novel, that reading great books carefully offers pleasures and consolations that no iPad app ever can. ↗

— John Green

#books #carefully #consolations #contemplative #ever

My argument is that War makes rattling good history; but Peace is poor reading. ↗

— Thomas Hardy

#good #history #makes #peace #poor

You can do the best research and be making the strongest intellectual argument, but if readers don't get past the third paragraph you've wasted your energy and valuable ink. ↗

— Carl Hiaasen

#best #energy #get #ink #intellectual

The secular argument, or the liberal argument, is to as much as possible remove taboos so things do not become unmentionable; to let some air into the discussion. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#argument #become #discussion #into #liberal

There are all kinds of stupid people that annoy me but what annoys me most is a lazy argument. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#annoys #argument #kinds #lazy #me

I don't accept at all the quite popular argument that the press is responsible for the monarchy's recent troubles. The monarchy's responsible for the monarchy's recent troubles. To blame the press is the old thing of blaming the messenger for the message. ↗

— Anthony Holden

#argument #blame #blaming #i #message

The argument on the other side of special rights is completely bogus. It's bogus because you could make exactly the same claim about racial or ethnic or religious minorities. ↗

— Tom Allen

#argument #because #bogus #claim #completely

Behind every argument is someone's ignorance. ↗

— Robert Benchley

#behind #every #ignorance #someone

It depends on the situation. I mean, on one hand there's the argument that people should be left alone on the other hand, there's the argument to wade in a stop slaughters in places like Bosnia and Kosovo and what we probably should have done in Rwanda. ↗

— Jello Biafra

#argument #bosnia #depends #done #hand

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