Best 867 quotes in «argument quotes» category

The argument from improbability, properly deployed, comes close to proving that God does not exist.

The argument for collectivism is simple; free market is not.

The argument for the free market is a complicated and sophisticated one and depends on demonstration of secondary effects. I have confidence market efficiency will win out.

The argument that women who become pregnant have in some sense consented to the pregnancy belies realityand others who are the inevitable losers in the contraceptive lottery no more 'consent' to pregnancy than pedestrians 'consent' to being struck by drunk drivers.'

The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence.

The arguments for purity of life fail of their due influence, not because they have been considered and confuted, but because they have been passed over without consideration.

The argument that resistance to the war should remain strictly nonviolent seems to me overwhelming.

...the argument from absence of transitional types boils down to the striking fact that such types are always lacking unless they have been found.

The argument of those who are being criticized at any time, the civil rights movement forward, the anti-war movement forward, is, it's always outside agitators doing it.

The argument that somehow we've got to get rid of minority scholarships so that we can have a free and fair America implies that we have a colorblind society where minorities are equal in their pursuit of funds to go to school.

..The argument he was conducting with his neighbor as to whether the English magician had gone mad because he was a magician, or because he was English.

The argument of danger only applies to those who live in relative safety.

The argument of the strongest is always the best.

The art of conversation is to be prompt without being stubborn, to refute without argument, and to clothe great matters in a motley garb.

The art of arguing is the art of living. We argue because we must, because life emends it, because, in the end, life itself is but an argument.

The Banh Mi sandwich is really the only good argument for colonialism.

The best argument for mutual funds is that they offer safety and diversification. But they don't necessarily offer safety and diversification.

The best argument is an undeniably good book.

The best argument is that which seems merely an explanation.

The best argument for anarchism is the twentieth century.

The best Reformed theology isn't just about careful arguments for theologically sophisticated conclusions. It is about how to live the Christian life.

The best way to win an argument is to begin by being right.

The bicycle is its own best argument. You just get a bike, try it; start going with the thing and using it as it suits you. It'll grow and it gets better and better and better.

The bible of cooking. The all-time argument ender. Early in my cooking career, I wielded my Larousse like a weapon and it never let me down.

The bucolic mind of East Barsetshire took warm delight in the eloquence of the eminent personage who represented them, but was wont to extract more actual enjoyment from the music of his periods than from the strength of his arguments.

The capacity to make free choices is not something we either have entirely or not at all. Rather, choices become freer the more they are the result of our own capacity to reflect on and assess facts and arguments.

the central argument of the backlash - that women's equality is responsible for women's unhappiness.

The combined wisdom and genius of all mankind cannot possibly conceive of an argument against liberty of thought.

The climate change argument is absolute crap

The definition of a Racist is anybody winning an argument with a liberal.

The conservative argument is that the economy is like the weather, that it just operates automatically.

The daughter of debate That still discord doth sow.

The cross is Gods way of taking away all of our accusations, excuses, and arguments.

The fastest way to lose an argument is to lose your temper.

The difference between science and religion is the difference between a willingness to dispassionately consider new evidence and new arguments , and a passionate unwillingness to do so.

The ethical argument regarding abortion hinges on the question of when life begins. Some believe life begins at forty.

The great argument used now against any theological proposition is not, that it is untrue, or unthinkable, or unedifying, or unscriptural, or unorthodox, but simply, that the modern mind cannot accept it.

The finding of arguments for a conclusion given in advance is not philosophy, but special pleading

The first rules about Islamic law weren't even written down for a century and a half after the Prophet's death, and it was another five centuries, half a millennium, before they assumed anything like a definitive form. So there have always been huge arguments over what Islamic law actually requires. There are four main schools of law in Sunni thought and there's a separate school of law in Shia thought, so these arguments do take place.

The fly in her argument is that when she says, 'they' will feel like lemons, we don't know who 'they' are. And 'they' might BE lemons.

The great charm in argument is really finding one's own opinions, not other people's.

The great merit of Stephen Gould's account of the disastrous history of phychometrics is that he shifts the argument from a sterile contest between environmentalists and hereditarians and turns it into an argument between those who are impressed with what our biology stops us doing and those who are impressed with what it allows us to do.

The financial wealth that has been created is unprecedented. Even if the stock market, for argument's sake, leveled off here, there's been so much wealth built up that we really can feel spending for some time.

The function of art is to make that understood which in the form of argument would be incomprehensible.

The heart has arguments with which the logic of mind is not aquainted.

the heart of the backlash argument: women are better off 'protected' than equal.

The idea comes before the logical argument.

The humanitarian argument is so selective I find it difficult to swallow. It's not even so much about the choice as to where we should get involved and where we shouldn't.

The humanitarian argument is so selective I find it difficult to swallow. It's not even so much about the choice as to where we should get involved and where we shouldn't. The minute you start arming people in these conflict zones, like Iraq and Afghanistan, things don't go as expected.

The influence of the leaders is due in very small measure to the arguments they employ, but in a large degree to their prestige. The best proof of this is that, should they by any circumstance lose their prestige, their influence disappears.