"Of course poets have morals and manners of their own, and custom is no argument with them."

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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

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"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

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"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

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"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

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"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

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"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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"Yes; quaint and curious war is! You shoot a fellow down you'd treat if met where any bar is, or help to half-a-crown."

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"Cruelty is the law pervading all nature and society; and we can't get out of it if we would."

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"Everybody is so talented nowadays that the only people I care to honor as deserving real distinction are those who remain in obscurity."

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"Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change."

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"Fear is the mother of foresight."

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"The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him."

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"The value of old age depends upon the person who reaches it. To some men of early performance it is useless. To others, who are late to develop, it just enables them to finish the job."

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"My opinion is that a poet should express the emotion of all the ages and the thought of his own."

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"Give the enemy not only a road for flight, but also a means of defending it."

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