Argumentum Ad Quotes

#1. Since the topic is science, the non scientists don't get a vote. We shouldn't decide everything by polling the masses. This is the fallacy called Argumentum Ad Numerum, the idea that something is true because great number believe it, as in EAT SHIT, twenty trillions flies can't be wrong!

Bill Maher

#2. The idea that a large group of people believing in something automatically makes it true is a logical fallacy called argumentum ad populum.

Armin Navabi

#3. Anything to do with persuasion is rhetoric, right down to the argumentum ad baculum, which means threatening somebody with a stick until they agree with you.

Mark Forsyth

#4. There is nothing to be feared except a result of our own actions

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#5. Some people shouldn't be allowed to make promises.

Keary Taylor

#6. When you are made to pay for such insolence, I shall revel in your ruin.

A&E Kirk

#7. Whoever blushes is already guilty; true innocence is ashamed of nothing.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#8. Let those who want to dance, dance. Let those who can awaken, awake.

Rene Barjavel

#9. Just as [he] had expected. The preacher retreated to authority as soon as he feared his ideas could not stand on their own merit. Reasonable argument was impossible when authority became the arbiter ...

Orson Scott Card