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

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

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Georg C. Lichtenberg, German Physicist

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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."

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

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"They believed that Britain was in Ireland defending their own interests, therefore the Irish had the right to use violence to put them out. My argument was that that type of thinking was out of date."

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"You can make an argument that Bill O'Reilly is a conservative or a Republican. Bill's kind of unpredictable. Somebody might say that he would have been comfortable in the Democratic Party of Scoop Jackson."

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"There is no good in arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat."

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"A flourishing, morally credible media is a vital component in the maintenance of genuinely public talk, argument about common good."

Rowan D. Williams, British Archbishop

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"That's what we're missing. We're missing argument. We're missing debate. We're missing colloquy. We're missing all sorts of things. Instead, we're accepting."

Studs Terkel, American Journalist

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"I mean the only thing that is hopefully good about us is after the arguments we can actually still face each other the next day or the day after and talk about something else and sort of get over it."

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"The sounder your argument, the more satisfaction you get out of it."

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"If you're teaching, say, physics, there's no point in persuading a student that you're right. You want to encourage them to find out what the truth is, which is probably that you're wrong."

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"Unlimited economic growth has the marvelous quality of stilling discontent while maintaining privilege, a fact that has not gone unnoticed among liberal economists."

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"In 1993, Israel and North Korea were moving towards an agreement in which North Korea would stop sending any missiles or military technology to the Middle East and Israel would recognize that country. President Clinton intervened and blocked it."

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"The idea that you have to avoid teaching evolution or pretend you're not teaching it is unique in the industrial world. And the statistics are mind-boggling. Roughly half the population think the world was created a couple thousand years ago."

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"It is useful to remember that no matter where we turn, there is rarely any shortage of elevated ideals to accompany the resort to violence."

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"If workers are more insecure, that's very 'healthy' for the society, because if workers are insecure, they won't ask for wages, they won't go on strike, they won't call for benefits; they'll serve the masters gladly and passively. And that's optimal for corporations' economic health."

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