If you can only advocate for your ideology by shaming your opponents, you will inevitably be defeated by the most shameless people in your society
Vivid Voidx.comIf you can only advocate for your ideology by shaming your opponents, you will inevitably be defeated by the most shameless people in your society
People who have good arguments use them. People who do not have good arguments try to win by labeling.
Scott Adams • Loserthink: How Untrained Brains Are Ruining America
The activists who deny their own power and possibility likewise choose to shake off their sense of obligation: if they are doomed to lose, they don’t have to do very much except situate themselves as beautiful losers or at least virtuous ones.
Rebecca Solnit • Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities
When you trash the opposition, you simultaneously demean yourself. The best warrior is a happy warrior. Accentuate the positive . . . eliminate the negative. Negative definitely works, but a solid positive message will triumph over negativity.