Best 867 quotes in «argument quotes» category

I will say that what’s been funny is, since the lightsaber’s come out, I cannot tell you how many contradictory emails I have received from people who have both defended it with unbelievably detailed graphicsI’ve gotten things that are nuts, and I’ve gotten people who’ve shown how it’ll kill you and how it doesn’t make any sense.  It’s been the funniest thing to see the arguments that have developed over this thing.

Knowledge has come to be defined as what can be proven by secular evidence and arguments.

Just because science so far has failed to explain something, such as consciousness, to say it follows that the facile, pathetic explanations which religion has produced somehow by default must win the argument is really quite ridiculous.

Let your life be your argument.

I would like to be judged on the validity of my arguments, not as a victim.

Liberals want Conservatives to shut up. Conservatives want Liberals to keep talking. Because our arguments make sense and theirs don't

Liberals are sometimes defined as people who can't take their own side in an argument.

Literature is by definition opinionated. It is bound to provoke the arguments in many quarters, not excluding the hometown or even the family of the author.

Lincoln once said that America was founded on a proposition that was written by Jefferson in 1776. We are really founded on an argument about what that proposition means.

Let us begin to understand the argument. There is a solution to everything: Science.

Lutherans, whose arguments and mistakes will not be difficult to contest or discover, do not want to attribute any value to works, and they do not understand enough the scope of the justification.

Look. I have always rejected the argument that members of Congress cast their vote because they're Jewish or not Jewish. I didn't cast my vote as a Jewish member of Congress. I cast my vote as a member of Congress.

Marriage would change hardly anything between us, except that we would end our arguments in a much more satisfying way. And of course I would have extensive legal rights over your body, your property, and all your individual freedoms, but I don't see what's so alarming about that.

[Louis Brandeis] insisted on the necessity of public reason, which he thought could only be achieved if all of us just take the time to inform ourselves about the best arguments on all sides of questions so that we can make up our own minds.

Marriage is a series of desperate arguments people feel passionately about.

Money is far more persuasive than logical arguments.

Metaphor is no argument, though it be sometimes the gunpowder to drive one home, and imbed it in the memory.

Most arguments with teenagers are setups. Your darling, simply stated, is manipulating you.

Most arguments are useless.

Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believing as we already do.

Mistakes are made on two counts: an argument is either based on error or incorrectly developed.

More philosophically-minded critics regarded Einstein's argument for relativity as little more than a logical bait-and-switch ploy: "[T]he supposition of most expounders of the Special Theory, that Einstein has proved the relativity of simultaneity in general - or that his 'simultaneity' is something more than a logical artefact - must manifestly be given up.

Most quarrels amplify a misunderstanding.

Most people are brought to faith in Christ not by argument for it but by exposure to it.

My argument is: keep the bloody bottom line at the bottom. That's where it should be.

Multitudes of words are neither an argument of clear ideas in the writer, nor a proper means of conveying clear notions to the reader.

My argument has always been that this is not an anti-Bush film, it's a pro-democracy film. And if George W.Bush comes out on the wrong side of democracy, that's his problem.

Most people go through their whole lives without killing anybody. False argument.

My candidacy is a compelling argument for my candidacy. I want to be President.

My argument is not that I shouldn't have been punished, but that the punishment didn't fit the crime.

My pappy told me never to bet my bladder against a brewery or get into an argument with people who buy ink by the barrel.

My dad, the old professor, used to say, 'Never get into an argument about what's folk music and what isn't.'

My wife was too beautiful for words, but not for arguments.

Neither irony nor sarcasm is argument.

My ideal picture of citizenship will always be an argument, not a sing-along.

Neither irony or sarcasm is argument.

Never get into an argument with a schizophrenic person and say, Who do you think you are?

Neither Pagan nor Mahamedan nor Jew ought to be excluded from the civil rights of the Commonwealth because of his religion. -quoting John Locke's argument.

Never argue. In society nothing must be; give only results. If any person differs from you, bow, and turn the conversation.

No blame, no reasoning, no argument, just understanding. If you understand, and you show that you understand, you can love, and the situation will change.

No argument can persuade me to like oysters if I do not like them. In other words, the disturbing thing about matters of taste is that they are not communicable.

Never preach a sermon without a text from the Bible, a text containing the theme which you can elaborate. The text is the best proof in support of your argument. A sermon without a text is an argument without a proof.

No deeply rooted tendency was ever extirpated by adverse judgment. Not having originally been founded on argument, it cannot be destroyed by logic.

No matter what argument you make against evolution, the response is Well, you know, it's possible to believe in evolution and believe in God. Yes, and it's possible to believe in Spiderman and believe in God, but that doesn't prove Spiderman is true.

Nothing is more certain than much of the force; as well as grace, of arguments or instructions depends their conciseness.

No one appreciates a professional anymore. Everyone's a mystic. Which is why I take drunk Jim over acid Jim - the argument all roads eventually lead to.

Nothing makes me crazier than the "you gave us Trump" argument based on Hillary Clinton's emails. I didn't set up the private server. I didn't advise her to be decidedly cryptic about the whole thing. I didn't tell the FBI to investigate.

Nothing requires a greater effort of thought than arguments to justify the rule of non-thought.

Nothing sucks more than that moment during an argument when you realize you're wrong. -T-Shirt

Now you can begin to see quite transparently that nothing purchased life is one of argument, If other people don't agree with you you're in big trouble. How far would you get in your work if nobody agreed that what you were doing had value?