Mike Thompson Quotes

It is easier to silence scientific dissent by utilizing the politics of personal destruction, than to actually debate them on the merits of their arguments. That should tell you something about the global warming debate...there is none right now....it's either you believe, or you are to be discredited.

Mike Thompson

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• Tolerance, openness to argument, openness to self-doubt, willingness to see other people's points of view - these are very liberal and enlightened values that people are right to hold, but we can't allow them to delude us to the point where we can't recognise people who are needlessly perpetrating human misery.

  

  Sam Harris
  • People
  • Doubt
  • Values

• It's easier to release an ebook than a print book.

  

  J. A. Konrath
  • Book
  • Easier
  • Print

• Art is a mind-game that we do to make our lives easier. If it isn't for that, it becomes superfluous.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Mind
  • Art
  • Game

• Neither irony or sarcasm is argument.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Argument
  • Irony
  • Sarcasm

• I'm not going to get in to an argument with anyone about the relative merits of Judaism and Christianity, and what it means for a Jewish kid to be a Christian - I'm just not interested in that argument.

  

  T Bone Burnett
  • Christian
  • Just
  • Argument

• Euclid taught me that without assumptions there is no proof. Therefore, in any argument, examine the assumptions.

  

  E. T. Bell
  • Argument
  • Taught
  • Proof

• I used to buy into a former Supreme Court justice's argument that you can't scream fire in a crowded theater. Well, I think you can.

  

  Larry Flynt
  • Justice
  • Fire
  • Argument

• Iraq made commitments after the Gulf War to completely dismantle all weapons of mass destruction, and unfortunately, Iraq has not lived up to its agreement.

  

  Barbara Boxer
  • Up
  • War
  • Destruction

• I just always found it easier to be the same guy onstage as you are offstage.

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • Guy
  • You
  • Always

• I was having an argument with my stepfather, and he was like, 'Why don't you join the Marine Corps?' And I was like, 'Noooo! Well, maybe, actually... ' I went and saw the recruiter, who was like, 'Are you on the run from the cops? Because we've never had someone want to leave so fast.'

  

  Adam Driver
  • Why
  • Want
  • Argument

• Don't take the wrong side of an argument just because your opponent has taken the right side.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • Taken
  • Just
  • Argument

• If you pick up an eighteenth-century play, at the top it says 'The Argument,' and then you have a list of characters, and then you have the play. I was just always struck by that - that, of course, good drama is about conflict.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Up
  • Good
  • Drama

• It's so much easier to throw rocks than it is to govern.

  

  Karen Bass
  • Easier
  • Rocks
  • Throw

• The official Hamas charter calls for the murder of Jews and destruction of the Jewish state.

  

  Aaron Klein
  • Destruction
  • Jews
  • Jewish

• The less you know about me the easier it is to convince you that I'm the character on screen.

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • Character
  • Knows
  • Easier

• We have seen the extent of the desecration and destruction of the facilities of the finest institution in the country.

  

  Laisenia Qarase
  • Country
  • Destruction
  • Institution

• Marriage is a series of desperate arguments people feel passionately about.

  

  Katharine Hepburn
  • People
  • Marriage
  • Argument

• History is either a moral argument with lessons for the here-and-now, or it is merely an accumulation of pointless facts.

  

  Andrew Marr
  • History
  • Moral
  • Argument

• Great changes are easier than small ones.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Changes
  • Easier
  • Ones

• One who hooks his fortune to ahimsa, the law of love, daily lessens the circle of destruction and to that extent promotes life and love.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Love
  • Destruction
  • Ahimsa

• I met Gemma, my wife, when she was 12. She had a schoolgirl crush on me and her dad had arranged for her to meet me. Later, she started coming to my concerts, but I only got to know her well after her mother died. I rang to see how she was, and that's how it started.

  

  Gary Numan
  • She
  • Mother
  • Me

• A little bit of suspicion is a dangerous thing; a drop from a pipette of poison into a bucket of otherwise clean water.

  

  Arabella Pollen
  • Water
  • Poison
  • Suspicion

• My only sanction is the love and affection in which you hold me. But it has its weaknesses, as it has its strengths.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Love
  • Affection
  • Weaknesses

• It is easier to silence scientific dissent by utilizing the politics of personal destruction, than to actually debate them on the merits of their arguments. That should tell you something about the global warming debate...there is none right now....it's either you believe, or you are to be discredited.

  

  Mike Thompson
  • Argument
  • Destruction
  • Easier