Charles Siebert quotes

Charles Siebert quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“We argue with our biology, and the result of that argument is civilization.”
-- Charles Siebert

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“Apart from God nothing matters. We think that health matters, that freedom matters, or knowledge or art or civilization. And but for one insistent word they would matter indeed. That word is eternity.”
“Our way of life is at stake, our grandchildren are at stake, the future of civilization is at stake.”
“Macey was just starting to argue when Abby asked, "What can you tell me about the gunmen?" "They're amateurs," Hale said at the exact same time Macey told her teacher, "They're pros.”
“I tend not to argue about things that I don't believe in.”
“It has become fashionable in Washington to argue that Obamacare cannot be reversed. That is nonsense. It's a fight worth waging, and a fight which can be won.”
“The financial wealth that has been created is unprecedented. Even if the stock market, for argument's sake, leveled off here, there's been so much wealth built up that we really can feel spending for some time.”
“One of the best ways of keeping your temper in an argument, as most of us know only too well, is not to listen to anything the other person has to say.”
“Atheism, I began to realize, rested on a less-than-satisfactory evidential basis. The arguments that had once seemed bold, decisive, and conclusive increasingly turned out to be circular, tentative, and uncertain.”
“A defeated argument that refuses to be obliterated can remain very alive.”
“Whenever my mother talks to me, she begins the conversation as if we were already in the middle of an argument.”

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