Best 867 quotes in «argument quotes» category

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

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

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

The daughter of debate That still discord doth sow.

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

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

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

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

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

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 idea comes before the logical argument.

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

Their argument is that most shows are losers, which is true, but it's also disingenuous to say, 'We are not going to take the risk unless it is totally covered by the few successful shows that are out there.'

The important thing isn't the soundness or otherwise of the argument, but for it to make you think.

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.

Theists give several 'proofs' of the existence of God. These are really just arguments, because if there were convincing proof just one would suffice.

The long term versus the short term argument is one used by losers.

The key that opens that door is proving to the American public that illegal immigration is under control. And at this point, that argument cannot be made because it is not true, it is not under control.

... the majority of us scarcely see more distinctly the faultiness of our own conduct than the faultiness of our own arguments, orthe dulness [sic] of our own jokes.

The modern believer is not suspicious enough, which is perhaps why when they try to construct arguments in their defence, the convictions are left doing all the work and reason, debilitated by neglect, weakly fails to prop them up.

The more arguments you win, the less friends you will have

The moot court process in our office when we get ready, we - everybody, including the SG, does two moot courts for each argument. And they are phenomenal, and they predict 90 percent of the questions that I get asked, at least 90 percent.

The more a race is governed by its passions, the less it has acquired the habit of cautious and reasoned argument, the more intense will be its love of music.

The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it.

The object of Parliament is to substitute argument for fisticuffs.

The number of arguments is unimportant unless some of them are correct.

The most popular argument in all these papers was the assertion ... that Christianity had grown and prospered in spite of the opposition of the State.

The necessary precondition for the birth of science as we know it is, it would seem, the diffusion through society of the belief that the universe is both rational and contingent. Such a belief is the presupposition of modern science and cannot by any conceivable argument be a product of science. One has to ask: Upon what is this belief founded?

The plea of necessity, that eternal argument of all conspirators.

The only argument you can make against having Confederate flag as spectacularly shown as it is around the south is the Nazis. I mean, it would be like having the swastika flag...

The only person who listens to both sides of an argument is the fellow in the next apartment.

The person who knows only his side of the argument knows little of that.

The only good that I can see in the demonstration of the truth of "Spiritualism" is to furnish an additional argument against suicide. Better live a crossing-sweeper than die and be made to talk twaddle by a "medium" hired at a guinea a séance.

The only real argument for monolithic systems was performance, and there is now enough evidence showing that microkernel systems can be just as fast as monolithic systems.

The only thing worse than being on the wrong side of an argument is to be on the right side with no one listening.

The only way by which you and I can wean orthodox Hindus from their bigotry is by patient argument and correct conduct.

The part that the public sees is the arguments up at the podium and the briefs that we file. But a significant part of the job - in fact, I'd say I spend more of my time on this part of the job, which is deciding what the position of the United States will be in the cases that we're going to be participating in before the court.

The power of large corporations is still a scourge on the earth, but at least the arguments supporting them are undermined now.

The power of music that poetry lacks is the ability to persuade without argument.

There is always a certain meanness in the argument of conservatism, joined with a certain superiority in its fact.

The purpose of argument is to change the nature of truth.