Arguing Quotes - Page 17

• A man who hates the passion cuts off their causes. But a man who remains among their causes experiences even against his will the conflict from the passions. It is not possible to be mentally inclined toward a passion if one does not love its cause. For who, disdaining shame, is given to vainglory? Or who, loving lowliness, is bothered by dishonor? Who, having a broken and humble heart, accepts fleshly sweetness? Or who, believing in Christ, is concerned about temporal things, or argues about them?

  Marcus Eremita

  Inspirational, Christian, Religious

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• It's better not to argue with women... When people push boundaries too far, it's not because they are strong but because they are weak. But maybe weakness is not the worst quality for a woman.

  Vladimir Putin

  Strong, People, Quality

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• That's what you have to find in architecture. You have to find your signature. When you find it, you're the only expert on it. People can say they like it or don't like it. They can argue about it, but it's yours.

  Frank Gehry

  People, Signatures, Experts

  Interview with David Sheff, www.playboy.com. March 1, 2011.

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• [Bruce] sees a lot of himself in [Batman], you know? You could argue that something even worse than what happened to Bruce happened to [Duke's] parents, who are now Joker-ized*. They're not just gone or irretrievably lost. And I'm NOT curing them, so you can put that out there! There's no relief from that.

  Scott Snyder

  Parent, Relief, Gone

  Source: www.denofgeek.com

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• It is the shared experience - [although] you're the conduit of the sound, the recipient is also in some way the author of the work, because if they weren't the author of the work they wouldn't be able to recognise it as an experience, you could argue. The more distance you can put between yourself and having any kind of objective the more likely it is to appear.

  Daniel O'Sullivan

  Distance, Sound, Able

  "A Flow Of Playfulness: An Interview With Laniakea". Interview with Russell Cuzner, thequietus.com. September 14, 2016.

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• I would argue that there's been a backlash this year [2016]. They [the Kochs] pushed the [Republican] party too far right. The other thing that the backlash is against is the sense that politicians have been bought and sold.

  Jane Mayer

  Party, Years, Republican

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• So we [with Kate DiCamillo] would act them out, we would toss ideas back and forth, we would laugh, we would argue. Sometimes it went really well, sometimes it was such a pain in the ass. Our other rule was that we wouldn't work on it at all when we weren't in the other's presence. It was really hard not to do that. We'd start going on email back and forth, 'What do you think about this, what do you think about that?' But, no, no, no, it had to be live. So we forced ourselves not to look at it except during those two-hour stretches when we were actually with each other.

  Alison McGhee

  Pain, Thinking, Ideas

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• I think Fichte did take it further than Kant by arguing that we can regard the moral law as objectively valid only by seeing it as addressed to us by another being, even though Fichte thought God could not literally be a person who could address us.

  Allen W. Wood

  Thinking, Law, Addresses

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• I would argue that if you understand how the cells of the brain are organized into circuits, almost computational circuits if you will, and we see how information flows through those circuits and how it's transformed, we might have a much firmer grasp on why our brains make decisions the way that they do. If we get a handle on that, maybe we can overcome some of our limitations and at the very least we'll understand why we do what we do.

  Edward Boyden

  Cells, Information Flow, Decision

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• If you could map out a human brain, an open question is, if you simulated it, would it be you? Now, as we discussed earlier, we don't have a great definition or even a good technological handle to know whether something is conscious or not just by looking at it, so there's that aspect that we're not ready to answer, I would argue. But it raises very interesting questions about the nature of identity.

  Edward Boyden

  Interesting, Brain, Identity

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• We have to gamble, and sometimes lose as George Ainslie argues; this keeps the appetite for life sharp.

  Catherine Wilson

  Appetite For Life, Sometimes, Gamble

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• It used to be that nobody would really argue with a woman, because what she thought (unless it was by way of providing helpful comments about one's own work) just didn't matter.

  Catherine Wilson

  Matter, Way, Helpful

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• You could analyze me and say that my father leaving and being absent was a motivator for early ambition, trying to prove myself to this apparition who had vanished. You could argue that me being a mixed kid in a place where there weren't a lot of black kids around might have spurred on my ambitions. You could go through a whole litany of things that sparked me wanting to do something important.

  Barack Obama

  Father, Ambition, Kids

  Source: www.vanityfair.com

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• I would argue that the management of creativity requires a skill set that's relatively different from the traditional management skill set that is appropriate to a large, complex, industrial-era organization.

  John Kao

  Creativity, Skills, Organization

  Interview with Joel Kurtzman, www.strategy-business.com. October 1, 1996.

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• I would argue that search has made the world a better place. It has done so for reasons that arbitrarily could completely change that - not arbitrarily at all but to completely change how that plays out based upon the needs of profitability. So it's totally unreliable and it has many layers nested underneath that of many ulterior motives nested underneath it.

  Jonathon Keats

  Play, World, Layers

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I disagree with those who argue that evolutionary biology and the existence of God are incompatible.

  Elliott Sober

  Biology, Existence, Disagree

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• I have spent a lot of time arguing that the theory of group selection is not the stupid, pernicious doctrine that many biologists once claimed it to be. The theory is not just conceptually coherent; there are adaptations out there in nature (like reduced virulence in some viruses) that evolved because there was group selection.

  Elliott Sober

  Stupid, Groups, Viruses

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• "The New York Times" is reporting correctly that women had accused a presidential candidate of sexual assault. Now that's news on any level. I mean you can't argue that that's not news.

  Megyn Kelly

  New York, Mean, Presidential

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• I would argue that we have a patriotic duty to move toward energy independence and clean energy. It is a matter of national security - energy security, climate security, economic security, job security, everything.

  Van Jones

  Jobs, Moving, Patriotic

  Source: rooseveltinstitute.org

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• A common rhetorical strategy of politicians and others is to frame their opponents' views in the worst possible light, tacitly suggesting that all versions of the view must be committed to some particularly deplorable conclusion. Philosophers are not immune to this way of arguing.

  Dale Jamieson

  Rhetorical Strategies, Light, Views

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• [Michael] Chabon is arguing in favor of what is at the same time an old-fashioned and very forward-thinking opening up - of taking off the class associations with those labels, because we grew up, or I certainly grew up, feeling that, "Oh, there's literary fiction, and beneath that, there's these other things." He's actually saying that they're all of equal merit, and in many cases, that work in the genres, or work that draws from the genres is more entertaining for readers, since it is our job to entertain people.

  Emily Barton

  Jobs, Thinking, Opening Up

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I would argue that one of the major problems with our blind trust in algorithms is that we can propagate discriminatory patterns without acknowledging any kind of intent.

  Cathy O'Neil

  Algorithms, Patterns, Kind

  Source: www.salon.com

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• Though the archbishop may rightly argue that they are objectively wrong in their positions, I don't understand how he can presume to know the consciences of Vice President [Joe] Biden and Senator [Tim] Kaine sufficiently to question the genuineness of their faith and condemn them personally.

  John I. Jenkins

  President, Vices, Biden

  Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

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• I went back into politics only when it was clear that things weren't going as they should have in my party. I was always arguing, I argued with everyone - with my father, with the leaders I had known since I was a child...and one day, it was in 1955, one of them exclaimed, 'You do nothing but criticize! If you think you can correct things, correct them. Go ahead, why don't you try?' Well, I could never resist a challenge, so I tried.

  Indira Gandhi

  Children, Father, Party

  Interview With Oriana Fallaci, sangam.org. December 24, 2014.

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• I would argue [princess] Margaret is the tragic figure of the century.

  Vanessa Kirby

  Princess, Century, Figures

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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