Best 867 quotes in «argument quotes» category

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

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

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 God in Boots! – the ontological argument is sound!

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

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

Heat is in proportion to the want of true knowledge.

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

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.

He's the only man I know who could start an argument with himself.  (on Craig Bellamy)

He realized at last that the arguments of pessimism were powerless to comfort him

Hillary Clinton says nobody should be deported that entered illegally unless they commit a violent felony, which is an argument for open borders and American people reject that.

He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.

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

History furnishes to politics all the arguments that it needs, for the chosen cause.

However, if you do start crying in an argument and someone asks why, you can always say, 'I'm just crying because of how wrong you are.'

History is a long and endlessly interesting argument, where evidence is everything and storytelling is everything else.

However good an argument in philosophy may happen to be, it is generally not good enough.

Hitler repeatedly stressed that one could not get at the masses with arguments, proofs, and knowledge, but only with feelings and beliefs.

How many a dispute could have been deflated into a single paragraph if the disputants had dared to define their terms

I actually have to consciously stay away from CNN and MSNBC because it will rot my brain and start having me agree with them as they have an argument between the right and the far right while making it seem they are righteous torch-bearers for democracy. Corporate media is insidiously numbing!

Hume develops his arguments by a series of models. He doesn't call them models in the pretentious way in which we envelope, very often, pure banalities in this jargon

I am bound to furnish my antagonists with arguments, but not with comprehension.

I am afeard there are few die well that die in battle, for how can they charitably dispose of anything when blood is their argument?

I admire the poetic relationship to place as enacted in Wallace Stevens' poems; his poetics strikes me as an argument against the restraints of realism.

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

I am not so sure whether what we do now is art or something not quite art. If I call it art, it is because I wish to avoid the endless arguments some other name would bring forth.

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 didn't like having reasonable arguments thrown at me.

I decided that I would make my life my argument.

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

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

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

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

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

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.'

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 write about certain arguments I have with my wife. I'd get my head torn off if wrote about certain things.

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 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.

If I know your sect, I anticipate your argument

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