Best 867 quotes in «argument quotes» category

I am the eternal optimist. I think that, over time, people respond to civility and -- and rational argument.

I became the stage for the great argument between Nietzsche and Rousseau. I was the extra ready to take on all the roles.

I consider the coke a major cause. Of course, you could also make the argument that because cocaine speeds up the heart, it's good for you.

I decided that I would make my life my argument.

I didn't particularly feel like being arrested, so I argued with the soldiers a bit. Several of them died during the argument - those things happen once in a while. Unfortunately, one of the casualties was Taur Urgas' oldest son. The king of the Murgos took it personally. He's very narrow-minded sometimes. - Silk

I didn't respond, because naked people never win arguments.

I didn't like having reasonable arguments thrown at me.

I do not see that the sex of the candidate is an argument against her admission as a Privatdozent. After all, the Senate is not a bathhouse. Objecting to sex discrimination being the reason for rejection of Emmy Noether's application to join the faculty at the University of Gottingen.

I do insist on making what I hope is sense so there's always a coherent narrative or argument that the reader can follow.

I do not propose to criticize the fatuous argument I have just outlined; here, to expound is to expose.

I don't want to get into an argument with somebody about how they ought to vote.

I don't believe it. Prove it to me and I still won't believe it.

I don't feel that an atmosphere of debate and total disagreement and argument is such a bad thing. It makes for a vital and alive field.

I don't have a 'side'—I'm responsible for what I say and nothing else.

I don't write about certain arguments I have with my wife. I'd get my head torn off if wrote about certain things.

I'd say honesty is always the best policy. There are always a lot of arguments - but even if honesty starts some, it avoids bigger ones.

I dropped out of high school when I was 16, after I had a huge argument with my English teacher over the meaning of the word 'existentialism.'

If Clinton somehow pulls out a win in both states, then she has an excellent argument to make to the superdelegates: Voters still respond to fear. Obama's campaign has been based on the implicit argument that voters no longer respond to fear. If Clinton wins both states, that probably proves Obama wrong on that point.

If Christ is the wisdom of God and the power of God in the experience of those who trust and love Him, there needs no further argument of His divinity.

I feel as if dystopian and utopian representations are historically the most effective way of criticizing modern society. You know, because you don't have to be factually accurate. You can kind of construct some awesome strawman arguments in your fictional world.

If I had an argument with a player we would sit down for twenty minutes, talk about it and then decide I was right!

I followed his argument with the blank uneasiness which one might feel in the presence of a logical lunatic.

If I know your sect, I anticipate your argument

I find you want me to furnish you with argument and intellects too. No, sir, these, I protest you, are too hard for me.

If opponents of all important truths do not exist, it is indispensable to imagine them and supply them with the strongest arguments which the most skillful devil's advocate can conjure up.

If there is such a simple argument for physicalism, how come everybody hasn't always been a physicalist? That's a good question, and there is a good answer. The 'causal completeness of physics' wasn't widely accepted until recently.

If Rand Paul is going to go anywhere, he is going to have to expand it beyond merely this argument about where we put troops and don`t put troops and make it both a generational argument and a change argument. And he`s got a chance to do that.

If the central contest of the twentieth century has pitted capitalism against socialism, then F. A. Hayek has been its central figure. He helped us to understand why capitalism won by a knockout. It was Hayek who elaborated the basic argument demonstrating that central planning was nothing else but an impoverishing fantasy.

If that were a winning argument, Donald Trump could get anybody off the bench on his cases by just something deeply offensive based on their background.

If the reason I give is a good one, you will act upon it. If it is a bad one I cannot make it better by piling epithet upon epithet. There is no logic in abuse; there is no argument in an epithet.

If the social conservatives feel that they have a strong argument on traditional marriage, then feel free to have it.

If you are ignorant, you certainly can get into some interesting arguments.

If we’re going to have arguments, let’s have arguments — but let’s make them debates worthy of this body and worthy of this country.

If you and I are not having a dialogue, when you're having an argument, the reason the argument happen is because we are not listening to each other. Then, the argument comes in, but if we truly listen instead of hearing, argument will not happen. Then, we'll empathize, and then once the empathy kicks in, you will be much more inclining with my viewpoint and I'll be inclining with your viewpoint, and that's what is missing in organizations.

If you believe certain words, you believe their hidden arguments. When you believe something is right or wrong, true or false, you believe the assumptions in the words which express the arguments. Such assumptions are often full of holes, but remain most precious to the convinced.

If you feel yourself to be above the mass, speak so as to raise the mass to the height of your argument.

If you can’t reduce your argument to a few crisp words and phrases, there’s something wrong with your argument.

If you really understand something, you can: 1) explain it using a clear metaphor and 2) explain the strongest counter-argument to the idea.

If you have high IQ, you're really good at finding post-hoc arguments to support your feelings of truthiness.

If you have an argument with someone and you sulk, sometimes you don't want to speak to them. But it is important to keep your friends close to you and do the right things.

I got in an argument with a girlfriend inside of a tent. That's a bad place for an argument, because I tried to walk out, and had to slam the flap.

I get in fewer arguments when I'm alone.

If you take anything that succeeded, just imagine it succeeding 10 years before or 10 years after, you could almost always make, with the same plausibility, the "it fit the times" argument.

I had come out of a church that was filled with petty arguments and hatred. I just wanted to meet with some friends and worship with them.

I grew up in a family that despised displays of strong emotion, rage in particular. We stewed. We sulked. When arguments did occur, they were full-scale conniptions, and we regarded them as family failings.

I have advocated postal reform for many years. The parliament said it was an absurd argument. The people have said it was the right thing.

I have always thought that the role of the film-maker is to present the argument persuasively, emotionally and coherently and then it is over to the viewer, they are either convinced or not convinced, moved or not moved and they decide whether they will take action or not.

I mean the only thing that is hopefully good about us is after the arguments we can actually still face each other the next day or the day after and talk about something else and sort of get over it.

I have no mockings or arguments; I witness and wait.

I have noticed that no sooner do people embark on a course of action which they do not find wholly satisfactory than they muster every argument to persuade others to imitate it.