False Equivalence Quotes & Sayings

You assumed whatever was vivid to yourself was vivid to others, and vice versa, but she was going to make him spell it out, for the first time in either of their lives. — Garth Risk Hallberg

In fact, it's even true to say that if you want to have a truly amazing life, relax your entire body. — Stephen Russell

I felt like challenging myself and challenging my readers with something darker and heavier. I don't know how to explain it, because I'm not a political person. I have two political stories, and that's it: 'Human Diastrophism' and 'Poison River.' — Gilbert Hernandez

So, I created these creatures called The Frightened Ones which in the film you see do have mask like kind of heads and they run beneath the ground to hide. Which is what in fact we did during the war. — Gerald Scarfe

She looked . . . whole. With him. — Kiersten White

I doubt very much that writers ever go to therapy. I wouldn't! I imagine that I wouldn't have anything to write about after! — Angelina Assanti

I think that the Almighty gave springtime to a tired world so that its peoples might know rest. I think that He gave it to a troubled world so that the world's inhabitants might find peace. I think He gave it to a discouraged world so that hope and faith might be reborn! — Margaret Elizabeth Sangster

I absolutely refuse to associate myself with anyone who cannot discern the essential night-and-day difference between theocratic fascism and liberal secular democracy, even less do I want to engage with those who are incapable of recognizing the basic moral distinction between premeditated mass murder and unintentional killing. — Christopher Hitchens

When you are writing for an artist you are trying to get into that artist's point of view. What does that artist want to say? What do they care about? And musically, you want to show off that artist. — Frank Wildhorn

I would read fishing reports on the road and then it just occurred to me: I should go to sea school and get my captain's license, see if I can get paid to be out here every day. — Dean Ween

I admit that I have sometimes claimed to be Batman in the past. But only when really, really drunk. — Warren Ellis

Enduring setbacks while maintaining the ability to show others the way to go forward is a true test of leadership. — Nitin Nohria

It's always the same with these bogus equivalences: They start by pretending loftily to find no difference between aggressor and victim, and they end up by saying that it's the victim of violence who is "really" inciting it. — Christopher Hitchens