Strawman Quotes & Sayings

Wishful thinking gives false gods to people who hunger for gods, but those who yearn for a world with no gods are no less likely to fall victim to their own wishful thinking. — Orson Scott Card

Q is like a stupid Internet Troll; he makes some strawman accusation against Picard, Picard refutes his argument with logic and reason, and Q just changes the terms of the argument, all the while enjoying the attention he's getting. But does anyone create alt.q.die.die.die? No, of course not. Life is so fucking unfair. — Wil Wheaton

Time does not expand."
"But time is actually expanding, isn't it? You yourself said that time adds up."
"That's only because time needed for transit has decreased. The sum total of time doesn't change. It's only that you can see more movies. — Haruki Murakami

What must be the nature of the world ... if human beings are able to introduce changes into it? — Paul Ricoeur

Comedy is like music, and the way to make the best music is to have skilled musicians in your band. — Rashida Jones

Two there shall be; no more, no less. One to embody the dark side, the other to crave it. — Drew Karpyshyn

The demands of justice for broken law can be satisfied throughmercy, earned by your continual repentance and obedience to the laws ofGod ... Through the Atonement you can live in a world where justiceassures that you will retain what you earn by obedience. — Richard G. Scott

Before believing - think. Before accepting - feel. — Debasish Mridha

All right cupcakes listen up! — Rick Riordan

Without the perfect sympathy with the animals around them, no gentleman's education, no Christian education, could be of any possible use. — John Ruskin

Who are these hordes of fat people chasing you around, insisting that eating pot pies all day is awesome and good for your health? Because, um, I don't believe you. That sounds like a strawman. And I know some of your best friends are fat or whatever, but you sound like a bigot. Also, your super fucking obvious and regressive point has been made. Everyone in the world already thinks fat people are lazy and gross[...] We get it! You are not breaking any new ground here! Being fat is its own punishment. I don't give a shit if you think I lie on the couch all day under the Dorito funnel. I'd just rather not be abused on the internet from inside my own workplace. — Lindy West

There is nothing wrong with God's plan that man should earn his bread by the sweat of his brow. — Laura Ingalls Wilder

In this way, racism is rendered as the innocent daughter of Mother Nature, and one is left to deplore the Middle Passage or the Trail of Tears the way one deplores an earthquake, a tornado, or any other phenomenon that can be cast as beyond the handiwork of men. — Ta-Nehisi Coates

The infinite space that each man carries within himself, wherein despairingly he contrasts the movement of his spirit with the acts of his life, is and overpowering thing. — Victor Hugo

Whatever had form or shape must be limited, and could not be eternal. — Swami Vivekananda

McConnell writes, "In ten years the pendulum has swung from 'design everything' to 'design nothing.' But the alternative to BDUF [Big Design Up Front] isn't no design up front, it's a Little Design Up Front (LDUF) or Enough Design Up Front (ENUF)." This is a strawman argument. The alternative to designing before implementing is designing after implementing. — Kent Beck

STRAWMAN. Are you less Intractable than when we parted? FALK. Nay, I go my own inexorable way - STRAWMAN. Even tho' you crush another's happiness? FALK. I plant the flower of knowledge in its place. [Smiling. — Henrik Ibsen

I love the smell of old books, Mandy sighed, inhaling deeply with the book pressed against her face. The yellow pages smelled of wood and paper mills and mothballs. — Rebecca McNutt