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My argument would be that I don't think there is much that's genuinely political art that is good art.


Thom Yorke


#art #genuinely #good #good art #i

If he who employs coercion against me could mould me to his purposes by argument, no doubt he would. He pretends to punish me because his argument is strong; but he really punishes me because his argument is weak.


William Godwin


#argument #because #coercion #could #doubt

Don't take the wrong side of an argument just because your opponent has taken the right side.


Baltasar Gracian


#because #just #just because #opponent #right

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

In one sense I feel that my book is a one-woman argument against determinism.


Susan Griffin


#argument #book #determinism #feel #i

Convincing yourself doesn't win an argument.


Robert Half


#convincing #win #yourself

Anger is seldom without argument but seldom with a good one.


Lord Halifax


#argument #good #seldom #without

I think it's a little simplistic to explain a work through the psychology of its author. In other words, that Haneke has emotional problems, so I don't have to take his films seriously. By using this argument, the viewer retreats from the challenges of the film.


Michael Haneke


#author #challenges #emotional #explain #film

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


Thomas Hardy


#good #history #makes #peace #poor

The most important thing in an argument, next to being right, is to leave an escape hatch for your opponent, so that he can gracefully swing over to your side without too much apparent loss of face.


Sydney J. Harris


#argument #being #escape #face #gracefully