{"quotes":[{"text":"At the time I thought the winner in an argument was the person who put forward the most logical support for his position. Of course, this isn't true. Human history, from gardening disputes to genocide, is full of examples of people with the most decent, well-argued stance ending up with their face in the mud in front of a naked display of power.","author":"Mark Barrowcliffe","tags":["2007","argument","bullying","logic"],"id":336,"author_id":"Mark+Barrowcliffe"},{"text":"Don't fight to be right, but fight when you are right.","author":"Amit Kalantri","tags":["advertising","amit-kalantri","amit-kalantri","amit-kalantri-writer","argument","being-right","catch-line","debate","dominate","fight","fighting","inspirational","marketing","moral-courage","motivational","one-liner","paradigm","philosophy","right","slogan","struggle","tag-line","to-prove","wisdom","wrong"],"id":1067,"author_id":"Amit+Kalantri"},{"text":"Animals give birth to children, so that alone is not an argument strong enough to make a human a man. Otherwise goats, dogs and pigs could beat us to the game, because they could do in one go what will take man years to accomplish. A woman can only give birth to a number of kids at a time, in a year, while some animals could give birth to as many as tens of breeds in a year.","author":"Sunday Adelaja","tags":["accomplish","argument","birth","time"],"id":3952,"author_id":"Sunday+Adelaja"},{"text":"Intellect is the virtue of ignoring one’s emotions’ attempt to contaminate one’s opinions.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["ad-hominem","argument","debate","emotions","intellect","intellectual","logic","reason","reasoning"],"id":5487,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"We get along like a house on fire these days.","author":"Rebecca McNutt","tags":["argument","days","enemy","fight","fire","friendship","get-along","honesty","house"],"id":5572,"author_id":"Rebecca+McNutt"},{"text":"The absence of even rough agreement on the facts puts every opinion on equal footing and therefore eliminates the basis for thoughtful compromise. It rewards not those who are right, but those - like the White House press office - who can make their arguments most loudly, most frequently, most obstinately, and with the best backdrop.","author":"Barack Obama","tags":["argument","barack-obama","compromise","media","news","opinion","opinions","politics","press","united-states","white-house"],"id":15416,"author_id":"Barack+Obama"},{"text":"Fat bitch,' Kessa murmured as the door scraped closed behind Mrs. Stone.'She meant well, Francesca. And you see, everyone thinks you're too thin.'Since when is Mrs. Stone an authority on appearance. I've heard you say a thousand times that she looks like an old hooker.'I never said anything of the sort. What I said was that she wears too much makeup and her clothes are indiscreet.'Which means she looks like an old hooker. Well, if that's the way a woman is supposed to look, I'd rather be too skinny.' Kessa felt a flash of pleasure at the argument. Just let her mother try to push food into her now.","author":"Steven Levenkron","tags":["anorexia","argument","bitch","eating-disorder","fat","fight","hooker"],"id":17577,"author_id":"Steven+Levenkron"},{"text":"When two men of science disagree, they do not invoke the secular arm; they wait for further evidence to decide the issue, because, as men of science, they know that neither is infallible. But when two theologians differ, since there is no criteria to which either can appeal, there is nothing for it but mutual hatred and an open or covert appeal to force.","author":"Bertrand Russell","tags":["argument","belief","disagreement","fallibility","force","infallible","science"],"id":18871,"author_id":"Bertrand+Russell"},{"text":"Listening to their argument made me aware of how empty my life was, and I hated the life I was living all the more. It was quite obvious to me this lady was deeply in love, for she was fighting for what she thought to be hers. Even though I was dating two females at the time, and stringing a third one along, yet I’ve yet to discover that kind of love. I guess this was why my favorite song was ‘I wane be love’, by the Jamaican reggae super star Buru Banton.","author":"Drexel Deal","tags":["argument","deeply-in-love","emptiness","faithfulness","hunger-within","infidelity","loneliness","love","relationships","searching-for-love","thug-life","true-friendship","true-love"],"id":19076,"author_id":"Drexel+Deal"},{"text":"Academics don't normally manage to alter people's way of thinking through their strength of argument.","author":"David Crystal","tags":["thinking","people","argument "],"id":21187,"author_id":"David+Crystal"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":251,"pages":26,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}