"I am bound to furnish my antagonists with arguments but not with comprehension."

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"Some readers may have noticed an icy little missive from Noam Chomsky ["Letters," December 3], repudiating the very idea that he and I had disagreed on the "roots" of September 11. I rush to agree. Here is what he told his audience at MIT on October 11:Clever of him to have spotted that (his favorite put-down is the preface 'Turning to the facts...') and brave of him to have taken such a lonely position. As he rightly insists, our disagreements are not really political."

Christopher Hitchens, American Author

Debate, Politics, Truth, Writing

"... the courage of one's opinions is always a form of calculating cowardice in the eyes of the 'other side'..."

Marcel Proust, French Author

Debate, Courage, Belief, Judgment

"The apologist is most entrusted with apologetics when capable of arguing his opponent's position better than his opponent."

Criss Jami, American Philosopher

Debate, Wisdom, Truth, Life, Power

"I strongly object to wrong arguments on the right side. I think I object to them more than to the wrong arguments on the wrong side."

Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer

Debate, Argument, Right, Wrong, Truth

"When every one of your arguments is characterized an attempt to bring back slavery or resegregate lunch counters, it's a little hard to have any sort of productive debate."

Ann Coulter, American Journalist

Debate, Arguments, Slavery

"The first ingredient to being wrong is to claim that you are right. Geniuses have a knack for raising new questions. Hence by the public they are either admired for their creativity or, even more commonly so, detested for disturbing the daily peace of mind."

Criss Jami, American Philosopher

Debate, Creativity, Question, Admiration, Criticism

"We should not use special budget procedures to jam through legislation to drill in the Arctic Refuge. This topic is too important to the public to address it in such a back-door manner. We should be having a full, open discussion of the issue during an energy debate."

Russ Feingold, American Politician

Debate, Energy, Legislation, Open

"Information, usually seen as the precondition of debate, is better understood as its by-product."

Christopher Lasch, American Historian

Debate, Information

"The job of the press is to encourage debate, not to supply the public with information."

Christopher Lasch, American Historian

Debate, Information, Job, Press

"The dinner table is a lively debate, and everybody weighs in in a different way. I like that, though."

Vanessa Kerry, American Celebrity

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"Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few; and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life."

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"The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend."

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"When a man fell into his anecdotage it was a sign for him to retire from the world."

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"Everyone likes flattery; and when you come to Royalty you should lay it on with a trowel."

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"Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time."

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"Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter."

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"... the courage of one's opinions is always a form of calculating cowardice in the eyes of the 'other side'..."

"The apologist is most entrusted with apologetics when capable of arguing his opponent's position better than his opponent."

"I strongly object to wrong arguments on the right side. I think I object to them more than to the wrong arguments on the wrong side."

"When every one of your arguments is characterized an attempt to bring back slavery or resegregate lunch counters, it's a little hard to have any sort of productive debate."

"The first ingredient to being wrong is to claim that you are right. Geniuses have a knack for raising new questions. Hence by the public they are either admired for their creativity or, even more commonly so, detested for disturbing the daily peace of mind."

"We should not use special budget procedures to jam through legislation to drill in the Arctic Refuge. This topic is too important to the public to address it in such a back-door manner. We should be having a full, open discussion of the issue during an energy debate."

"Information, usually seen as the precondition of debate, is better understood as its by-product."

"The job of the press is to encourage debate, not to supply the public with information."

"The dinner table is a lively debate, and everybody weighs in in a different way. I like that, though."

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"Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few; and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life."

"In a progressive country change is constant; change is inevitable."

"Finality is not the language of politics."

"I have been ever of opinion that revolutions are not to be evaded."

"The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend."

"London is a modern Babylon."

"When a man fell into his anecdotage it was a sign for him to retire from the world."

"Everyone likes flattery; and when you come to Royalty you should lay it on with a trowel."

"Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time."

"Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter."