Dec 4, 2007

People who, when quoted, instantly invalidate any argument

A list, in no particular order and of no particular completeness.

  • Noam Chomsky

  • Ayn Rand

  • Gandhi

  • Winston Churchill

  • Hunter S Thompson

  • Pope John Paul II

  • Jim Morrison

  • George W Bush

  • Milton Freedman

  • Timothy Leary

  • Adolph Hitler (by way of comparison)

  • Dr Seuss

  • Frederic Nietzsche

  • any DJ other than John Peel

  • Richard Stallman

  • Ann Coulter

  • Bill Watterson

  • Richard Dawkins

  • any anthropomorphized animal character

  • Strom Thurmond

  • John Lennon

  • Karl Marx

  • Adolf Eichman

  • Anton LaVey

  • Jerry Falwell

  • any baseball personality

  • Aleister Crowley

  • Carlos Casteneda

  • Einstein (if not about physics)

  • Deepak Chopra

  • William Randolph Hearst

  • Bobby Fischer

  • anyone with a blog

  • L. Ron Hubbard

  • William Shakespeare

  • Robert Anton Wilson

  • Mark Twain

  • Bono, or anyone Bono would quote

Compiled with suggestions from Jason Goldman, Timoni Grone, Jeremy LaTrasse, Aziz + Rachel, and Craig Davis.

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