Argument Quotes

A fair-minded person tries to see both sides of an argument.

I passionately believe that's it's not just what you say that counts, it's also how you say it - that the success of your argument critically depends on your manner of presenting it.

You could start an argument in an empty house.

The reductio ad absurdum is God's favorite argument.

When much dispute has past, we find our tenets just the same as last.

You don't want to just do a joke because it works - we can make a lot of jokes work - you want to do a joke because it will hopefully build into an argument.

Some people have made the argument, well, Donald Trump is bad, but Hillary Clinton may be worse, or there's really no difference. That's insane. That's completely insane.

Argument should be polite as well as logical.

Fighting is not the best way to win an argument. If carried to its ultimate conclusions, the old idea of "an eye for an eye" eventually ends in making everybody blind.

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

In reasoning upon moral subjects, we have great occasion for candor, in order to compare circumstances, and weigh arguments with impartiality.

It's very difficult to get any movies done about Black heroes - Haitian or American - in Hollywood. The argument in Hollywood is that there is no market for those movies, and that is not true.

The difficult part in an argument is not to defend one's opinion but rather to know it.

I'd like to do policy and I'd like to do philosophy, I'd like to be able to get into the depth, into the meat of the argument - that's the kind of stuff I want to do.

The only part of an argument that really matters is what we think of the people arguing.

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

The argument for intelligent design basically depends on saying, 'You haven't answered every question with evolution,'... Well, guess what? Science can't answer every question

The scientific argument advanced for intelligent design at the Dover trial, those arguments collapsed, scientifically and intellectually

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.

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

One barrier... is the impoverishment of classroom language, the failure to cultivate a common vocabulary about inquiry, explanation, argument and problem solving.

For the sake of argument I'll ignore all your fighting words.

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.

Is it possible to covet a much longer life for one's self and be as devoted to the well-being of the next generation? It's a long argument.

You can't win an argument. You can't because if you lose it, you lose it; and if you win it, you lose it.

To some Christianity is an argument. To many it is a performance. To a few, it is experience.

The storm had now definitely abated, and what thunder there was now grumbled over more distant hills, like a man saying 'And another thing...' twenty minutes after admitting he'd lost the argument.

There are some people as obtuse in recognizing an argument as they are in appreciating wit. You couldn't drive it into their heads with a hammer.

Sometimes we deny being worthy of praise, hoping to generate an argument we would be pleased to lose.

Almost invariably, whoever doesn't win the argument is going to be unhappy.

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.

Supporting a murderous political agenda with such an argument is tragic!

When an arguer argues dispassionately he thinks only of the argument.

The climate change argument is absolute crap

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

I just remember that whenever I got really mad or passionate, like in an argument, people would laugh, and I'd be dead serious. It would happen a lot. So it was like, Gee, I've got something here.

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

When Jesus got the big questions, he didn't present arguments. He presented himself.

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.

It is the briefest yet wisest maxim which tells us to meddle not.

If love or non-violence be not the law of our being, the whole of my argument falls to pieces.

I didn't want my next U.S. senator to be someone who was going to go up there and do the same stuff people have been doing. But I guess our argument is it's okay to be angry and upset at Washington.

... the only argument against vivisection that will be seen to have lasting power - that we do not improve human society by means that debase human character.

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

How beggarly appear arguments before a defiant deed!

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

The king to Oxford sent a troop of horse, For Tories own no argument but force; With equal care, to Cambridge books he sent, For Whigs allow no force but argument.

Expediency may tip the scales when arguments are nicely balanced.

As it is a great point of art, when our matter requires it, to enlarge and veer out all sail, so to take it in and contract it is of no less praise when the argument doth ask it.

George W. Bush bought the election - period. End of story. There is no argument. You can try to come up with any argument you can, but there is none.