Best 867 quotes in «argument quotes» category

Beware of long arguments and long beards.

Bigot: A person who wins an argument with a liberal.

But curb thou the high spirit in thy breast, for gentle ways are best, and keep aloof from sharp contentions.

But it feels good to love a thing and not expect anything back. It feels good to not get an argument or any pushiness or any rumors or any bullshit. It's love without strings. It's ideal.

But, you know, there's still an argument, there's still ten states that outlaw premarital sex, and many more states where adultery is still outlawed and a crime.

Capital punishment is the source of many an argument, both good and bad.

By all means, avoid words—threats, complaints, justification, narratives, reframing, attempts to win arguments, supplications; avoid words!

Constitutional arguments that seem as dry as dust can have momentous consequences.

Clear statement is argument.

Compromise in your arguments, not in your expectations.

Conservatives have long argued, correctly, that 'fine-tuning' the economy is a chimera, but that argument seems to have disappeared from the conservative handbook.

Contempt is the emotion we feel for an opponent whose arguments are too formidable to refute.

Closing one's ears to the complaints of partisans would also entail closing one's mind to the substance of their arguments.

Consumption is the death of capital, and the only valid arguments in favor of consumption are arguments in favor of death itself.

Demosthenes, when taunted by Pytheas that all his arguments "smelled of the lamp," replied, "Yes, but your lamp and mine, my friend, do not witness the same labours.

Crime can be a unifying argument - not an argument that people use as a code for us vs. them.

Don't compliment me in the middle of an argument. It won't make me stammer or blush, and it just makes you look desperate.

Disagreements between incompatible beliefs cannot be settled by reasoned argument because reasoned argument is drummed out of those trained in religion from the cradle.

Even if I was a bad right wing guy, to the extent of whether my arguments are right or wrong, they're right or wrong independently if I'm right or left.

Fallacious and misleading arguments are most easily detected if set out in correct syllogistic form.

Expediency may tip the scales when arguments are nicely balanced.

Every sermon must have a solid rest in Scripture, and the pointedness which comes of a clear subject, and the conviction which belongs to well-thought argument, and the warmth that proceeds from earnest appeal.

Extrapolations are the last refuge of a groundless argument.

Faith is not uprooted by dialectic proof; it must already be deeply shaken by other causes to be unable to withstand the shock of argument.

Few progressives would take issue with the argument that, significant accomplishments notwithstanding, the Obama presidency has been a big disappointment.

Father sighed. “Please spare me these arguments of yours.” “Whose arguments should I use?

Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

[Flürscheim] was good at unanswerable arguments.

Forget the Bible, the greatest argument against human evolution is a YouTube comment thread.

For they are yet ear-kissing arguments.

For similar folly, our own country, in the transition from the colonial period, also paid a fearful price; and from a like catastrophe the United States has been twice saved in our time by the arguments formulated by Turgot.

For it is not metres, but a metre-making argument that makes a poem.

Good and happy people who believe in God are the greatest living arguments for God's existence

Freud suggests that in order to love someone else, one must love themselves; it's a classic "needs before other needs" argument. Unfortunately, no one really loves themselves . And, if they do, they need to get to know themselves better. Unfortunately, no one is really happy.

Gays (homosexuals) usually bring up the argument about all the straight couples living in 'sham' marriages, but I see no point in dragging the Clintons into this

George W. Bush bought the election - period. End of story. There is no argument. You can try to come up with any argument you can, but there is none.

Give no answer to contentious arguments or irresponsible accusations. Let such things "fly out open windows" until they spend themselves.

Goering got into endless arguments with other officers [and] he did not like routine work.

Frank was the BOSS and was not open to anything that was not from his head. There were no arguments about music because if you did, he would show you where the door was. Period.

[F]riends praise your abilities to the skies, submit to you in argument, and seem to have the greatest deference for you; but, though they may ask it, you never find them following your advice upon their own affairs; nor allowing you to manage your own.

GRAPESHOT, n. An argument which the future is preparing in answer to the demands of American Socialism.

Grasshopper always wrong in argument with chicken.

Great novelists are philosopher novelists - that is, the contrary of thesis-writers.

Great God in Boots! – the ontological argument is sound!

Heat is in proportion to the want of true knowledge.

Great power constitutes its own argument, and it never has much trouble drumming up friends, applause, sympathetic exegesis, and a band.

He always had a chip on his shoulder that he was ready to use to kindle an argument.

He that is not open to conviction is not qualified for discussion.

He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument.

Hence our verdict on these reformulated versions of St. Anselm's argument must be as follows. They cannot, perhaps, be said to prove or establish their conclusion.