"I don't feel that an atmosphere of debate and total disagreement and argument is such a bad thing. It makes for a vital and alive field."

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"I don't feel that an atmosphere of debate and total disagreement and argument is such a bad thing. It makes for a vital and alive field."

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"For your own good is a persuasive argument that will eventually make a man agree to his own destruction."

Janet Frame, New Zealander Novelist

Argument, Destruction, Man, Will

"We go round and round trying to convince one another that our opinion makes more sense. And the only winner is time for making us look like fools by wasting it."

S. A. Tawks, British Author

Argument, Debate, Opinion, Time, Wisdom

"My argument has always been that this is not an anti-Bush film, it's a pro-democracy film. And if Bush comes out on the wrong side of democracy, that's his problem."

John Sayles, American Director

Argument, Democracy, Film, Wrong

"It's not about whether or not someone is a bigot, but whether or not the argument which that someone is arguing is worth being a bigot about."

Criss Jami, American Philosopher

Argument, Truth, Power, Regret, Wisdom

"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, English Writer

Argument, Doubt

"When a thing is said to be not worth refuting you may be sure that either it is flagrantly stupid - in which case all comment is superfluous - or it is something formidable, the very crux of the problem."

Percy Bysshe Shelley, English Poet

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"You never need an argument against the use of violence, you need an argument for it."

Noam Chomsky, American Activist

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"We are told that the possession of nuclear weapons - in some cases even the testing of these weapons - is essential for national security. But this argument can be made by other countries as well."

Joseph Rotblat, Polish Physicist

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"At the conclusion of my argument I received very high compliments from the Chief Justice and later from other of the Judges. What they said I do not care to repeat."

William Henry Moody, American Politician

Argument, Care, Compliments, Judges

"As for the assertion that nuclear weapons prevent wars, how many more wars are needed to refute this arguments? Tens of millions have died in the many wars that have taken place since 1945."

Joseph Rotblat, Polish Physicist

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"If there's ever a place where you can't argue that you can put the facts over here and the text over there and see if they fit, it is surely in anthropology."

Anthropology

"Meaning is socially, historically, and rhetorically constructed."

Meaning

"Anthropology in general has always been fairly hospitable to female scholars, and even to feminist scholars."

Anthropology

"It's always amusing to look at how something early in the 20th century was written in anthropology and how it's written now. There's been an enormous shift in how it's done, but yet you can't put your finger on someone who actually did it."

Anthropology

"The point of literary criticism in anthropology is not to replace research, but to find out how it is that we are persuasive."

Anthropology

"People keep asking how anthropology is different from sociology, and everybody gets nervous."

People

"We're getting closer to our nature."

Nature

"I think feminism has had a major impact on anthropology."

Anthropology

"Gender consciousness has become involved in almost every intellectual field: history, literature, science, anthropology. There's been an extraordinary advance."

History

"I think the American university system still seems to be the best system in the world."

American