Time spent arguing is, oddly enough, almost never wasted.
Christopher HitchensTag: debate argumentation
Get what you can with words, because words are free, but the words of an armed man ring that much sweeter.
Joe AbercrombieTag: war violence talk debate persuasion
Psychobabble attempts to redefine the entire English language just to make a correct statement incorrect. Psychology is the study of why someone would try to do this.
Criss JamiTag: humor language psychology funny justification fallacy deceit incorrect argue debate english study babble funny-but-true debating arguing correct argumentation refutation self-justification babbling craftiness fallacies psychobabble redefine retorts wrongness
It always seems as though the definition of love will remain debatable by an opinionated world.
Criss JamiTag: truth love world opinions ideas uncertainty conflict definition abstraction confusion disagreement obscurity debate fortunate unfortunate fortunately unfortunately
The last time that I consciously wrote anything to 'save the honor of the Left', as I rather pompously put it, was my little book on the crookedness and cowardice and corruption (to put it no higher) of Clinton. I used leftist categories to measure him, in other words, and to show how idiotic was the belief that he was a liberal's champion. Again, more leftists than you might think were on my side or in my corner, and the book was published by Verso, which is the publishing arm of the New Left Review. However, if a near-majority of leftists and liberals choose to think that Clinton was the target of a witch-hunt and the victim of 'sexual McCarthyism', an Arkansan Alger Hiss in other words, you become weary of debating on their terms and leave them to make the best of it.
Christopher HitchensTag: sex liberalism corruption cowardice delusion debate idiocy bill-clinton leftism arkansas impeachment-of-bill-clinton mccarthyism lewinsky-scandal witch-hunt alger-hiss new-left-review verso-books
The 'pre-emption' versus 'prevention' debate may be a distinction without much difference. The important thing is to have it understood that the United States is absolutely serious. The jihadists have in the past bragged that America is too feeble and corrupt to fight. A lot is involved in disproving that delusion on their part.
Christopher HitchensTag: war united-states delusion islam debate iraq-war war-on-terror jihad islamic-terrorism bush-doctrine preemptive-war preventive-war
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:
I'll talk about the situation in Afghanistan.... Looks like what's happening is some sort of silent genocide.... It indicates that whatever, what will happen we don't know, but plans are being made and programs implemented on the assumption that they may lead to the death of several million people in the next—in the next couple of weeks.... very casually with no comment.... we are in the midst of apparently trying to murder three or four million people.
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
Tag: politics morality war genocide debate terrorism afghanistan leftism september-11-attacks noam-chomsky 2001 the-nation war-in-afghanistan-2001-presen
A sure sign of ineptitude and malice is manifested when one's attacker is willing to cover himself with mud in order to try and make some of it adhere to his target.
Christopher HitchensTag: malice debate ineptitude argumentation norman-g-finkelstein smear-campaigns
The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum — even encourage the more critical and dissident views. That gives people the sense that there's free thinking going on, while all the time the presuppositions of the system are being reinforced by the limits put on the range of the debate.
Noam ChomskyA novel is an impression, not an argument; and there the matter must rest.
Thomas HardyTag: writing argument novel debate impression
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