I am right

It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument. - William G. McAdoo

Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable. - John Kenneth Galbraith

What are you telling us?

The great thing about human language is that it prevents us from sticking to the matter at hand. - Lewis Thomas

Pollution!

There's so much pollution in the air now that if it weren't for our lungs there'd be no place to put it all. - Robert Orben

Fuck you government!

If men were angels, no government would be necessary. - James Madison

No it is not like that!

Against logic there is no armor like ignorance. - Laurence J. Peter

You are such an idealist!

To achieve the impossible dream, try going to sleep. - Joan Klempner

"I have rights"

To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it. - GK Chesterton

Definition of politics

The word 'politics' is derived from the word 'poly', meaning 'many', and the word 'ticks', meaning 'blood sucking parasites'. - Larry Hardiman

Facts&experts

Where facts are few, experts are many. - Donald R. Gannon

We want to speak freely and stupidly!

People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use. - Soren Kierkegaard

How to deal with capitalistic arguments

The future is here. It's just not widely distributed yet. - William Gibson

For natural science topics

The great tragedy of Science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact. - Thomas H. Huxley

Communicate persuasively

Democracy

• Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time. - EB White

Do you have any facts supporting that?

• I never guess. It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts. - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

• On effectively attacking idealistic cases...

Violence is not the answer

Fighting for peace is just like fucking for virginity.

The money argument

• Lack of money is the root of all evil. - George Bernard Shaw
• A useful quote, if it is used for an analysis that is deeper than: It costs too much.

Debate quote N.1

Facts are the enemy of truth. - Miguel de Cervantes

• What better way to start a debate, when the other side is in the clouds...(on the principles)?