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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

People

If this phrase of the 'balance of power' is to be always an argument for war, the pretext for war will never be wanting, and peace can never be secure.

I passionately believe that's it's not just what you say that counts, it's also how you say it - that the success of your argument critically depends on your manner of presenting it.

Alain de Botton

Success

Argument

I have found you an argument; I am not obliged to find you an understanding.

James Boswell

Argument

Understanding

Argument is meant to reveal the truth, not to create it.

Edward de Bono

Truth

Argument

The conservative argument is that the economy is like the weather, that it just operates automatically.

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

People

Argument

Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.

No matter what side of the argument you are on, you always find people on your side that you wish were on the other.

Thomas Berger

People

Argument

I think what I and most other sociologists of religion wrote in the 1960s about secularization was a mistake. Our underlying argument was that secularization and modernity go hand in hand. With more modernization comes more secularization.

My wife Mary and I have been married for forty-seven years and not once have we had an argument serious enough to consider divorce; murder, yes, but divorce, never.

Behind every argument is someone's ignorance.

Robert Benchley

Argument

Ignorance

Euclid taught me that without assumptions there is no proof. Therefore, in any argument, examine the assumptions.

E. T. Bell

Argument

Proof

The argument has been made in Congress that it is slippery slope if you allow therapeutic, what people people are calling therapeutic cloning, then you will get reproductive cloning.

Preaching is to much avail, but practice is far more effective. A godly life is the strongest argument you can offer the skeptic.