Argument Quotes - Page 29

• The capacity to make free choices is not something we either have entirely or not at all. Rather, choices become freer the more they are the result of our own capacity to reflect on and assess facts and arguments.

  Julian Baggini

  Choices, Facts, Results

  "Choice is rarely black and white" by Julian Baggini, www.theguardian.com. August 02, 2010.

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• Traditional arguments for the existence of God and contemporary attempts to use fine-tuning and cosmology to back up the case for his existence always strike me as kinds of games, since hardly anyone believes on the basis of these arguments at all.

  Julian Baggini

  Believe, Games, Use

  "The modern believer is not suspicious enough" by Julian Baggini, www.theguardian.com. January 26, 2012.

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• To read the report of a discussion in which arguments for and against are presented, in which a subject has been covered from different points of view, with new ideas advanced - this is far more instructive than to read a brief account of the resolution passed on the matter.

  Fredrik Bajer

  Ideas, Views, Matter

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• When you have an intense game, you're going to have arguments. I have no problem with it. I think it's healthy.

  Scott Brooks

  Thinking, Games, Healthy

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• I can make the argument that people who don't have the biggest ranges but have very unique voices, even if they may be pitchy at times... with the right record that's really unique and distinct, they can have big hits.

  Kara DioGuardi

  Unique, Voice, People

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• There is a definite argument to be made that videogames are becoming an art form put together by artists of different types.

  John Romero

  Art, Together, Different

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• I actually bought the argument that if we democratized Iraq, we could create a space for venting some of the stuff that's going on in the Middle East in these autocratic regimes that is expressing itself through jihadism, because it has nowhere else to express itself.

  Andrew Sullivan

  Iraq, Space, Middle East

  "Andrew Sullivan: Dishing It Out Daily For A Decade". "All Things Considered" with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. October 17, 2010.

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• There can be, therefore, no true education without moral culture, and no true moral culture without Christianity. The very power of the teacher in the school-room is either moral or it is a degrading force. But he can show the child no other moral basis for it than the Bible. Hence my argument is as perfect as clear. The teacher must be Christian. But the American Commonwealth has promised to have no religious character. Then it cannot be teacher.

  Robert Dabney

  Christian, Education, Teacher

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• I love a good argument and sometimes I have a hard time keeping my mouth shut if I think someone is wrong... I've always fought for what I believe in, and I don't quit until I have accomplished what I set out to do.

  Kenny Wormald

  Believe, Thinking, Hard Times

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• I don't like watchingpeople get shot so I would be a little skittish about that - squeamish, but I must say, I don't think the argument that this is going to offend Muslims is a legitimate argument.

  Jedediah Bila

  Thinking, Would Be, Littles

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• To some Christianity is an argument. To many it is a performance. To a few, it is experience.

  Vance Havner

  Christian, Performances, Christian Inspirational

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• 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

  Church, News, Television

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• The free-trade idea, logically applied, will abolish usury; and with usury will disappear the chief bone of contention between labor and capital. But, just at this point, free-traders go over to the enemy; and many writers on political economy, in flat contradiction of the essential principles of that science, have made elaborate arguments to prove self-government in finance, impossible! What shall we think of men who, having dethroned kings, demolished popes, destroyed slave oligarchies and assailed tariff monopoly, advise submission to the most oppressive and dishonest of despotisms, Usury?

  Ezra Heywood

  Kings, Men, Thinking

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• I am not so sure whether what we do now is art or something not quite art. If I call it art, it is because I wish to avoid the endless arguments some other name would bring forth.

  Allan Kaprow

  Art, Names, Wish

  Allan Kaprow, Jeff Kelley (2003). “Essays on the Blurring of Art and Life”, p.21, Univ of California Press

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• I think Martin Luther correctly distinguished between what he called the magisterial and ministerial uses of reason. The magisterial use of reason occurs when reason stands over and above the gospel like a magistrate and judges it on the basis of argument and evidence. The ministerial use of reason occurs when reason submits to and serves the gospel…. Should a conflict arise between the witness of the Holy Spirit to the fundamental truth of the Christian faith and beliefs based on argument and evidence, then it is the former which must take precedence over the latter.

  William Lane Craig

  Christian, Thinking, Judging

  "Reasonable Faith: Christian Truth and Apologetics". Book by William Lane Craig, p. 36, 1994.

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• You must force yourself to consider opposing arguments. Especially when they challenge your best loved ideas.

  Charlie Munger

  Best Love, Ideas, Challenges

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• Fiction seems to be more effective at changing beliefs than nonfiction, which is designed to persuade through argument and evidence. Studies show that when we read nonfiction, we read with our shields up. We are critical and skeptical. But when we are absorbed in a story, we drop our intellectual guard. We are moved emotionally, and this seems to make us rubbery and easy to shape.

  Jonathan Gottschall

  Intellectual, Fiction, Stories

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• Rational argument does not create belief, but it maintains a climate in which belief may flourish.

  Alister E. McGrath

  Climate, Doe, May

  Alister E. McGrath (2013). “The Intellectual World of C. S. Lewis”, p.134, John Wiley & Sons

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• I bristle a little when the argument for film gets put into the nostalgia ghetto. Film is still the highest quality and best-looking image capture medium available. I don't think it always will be. The digital image will get better, and it will eventually surpass the quality of the film image, but it isn't there yet.

  Rian Johnson

  Ghetto, Thinking, Get Better

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Scientists and theologians can’t offer better than circular arguments, because there are no other kinds of arguments. Bible believers quote the Bible, and scientists quote other scientists. How do either scientists or theologians answer this question about the accuracy of their conclusions: “In reference to what?

  Frank Schaeffer

  Answers, Kind, Scientist

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• Those who say that the West and Islam are eternally irreconcilable have more in common with the Islam extremists than they might like to think, for it's the very same argument of course advanced by Al-Qaida. And they do have it wrong. We need to work with mainstream Islam.

  Pauline Neville-Jones, Baroness Neville-Jones

  Thinking, Islam, Needs

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• In more than 20 years I've spent studying the issue, I have yet to hear a convincing argument that college football has anything do with what is presumably the primary purpose of higher education: academics.

  Buzz Bissinger

  Football, College, Years

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• Science is based on the possibility of objectivity, on the possibility of different people checking out for themselves the observations made by others. Without that possibility, there is no empirical principle capable of deciding between different arguments and theories.

  Jose Padilha

  Objectivity, People, Principles

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• Few look for truth; many prowl about for a reputation of profundity by arrogantly challenging whichever arguments are the best.

  Rene Descartes

  Challenges, Looks, Reputation

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• The Old Testament contains in many places, but especially in the book of Job, one of the most far-reaching defenses ever written of wilderness, of nature free from the hand of man. The argument gets at the heart of what the loss of nature will mean to us....God seems to be insisting that we are not the center of the universe, that he is quite happy if it rains where there are no people - that God is quite happy with places where there are no people, a radical departure from our most ingrained notions.

  Bill McKibben

  Jobs, Rain, Book

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