Argument Quotes

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.

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

The climate change argument is absolute crap

The argument about marriage equality will one day seem as arcane and shocking to us as the fact that Rosa Parks had to get up and go to the back of the bus.

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

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

How beggarly appear arguments before a defiant deed!

There is no argument in the world that carries the hatred that a relioious belief does. The more learned a man is, the less consideration he has for another man's belief.

Our argument is not flatly circular, but something like it. It has the form, figuratively speaking, of a closed curve in space.

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.

Waste not thy time in windy argument but let the matter drop.

If you want a good argument against democracy, spend five minutes with a voter.

I know to argue against our online lives seems like the argument of the grumpy, old Luddite novelist, but I really always try to make the argument from the perspective of personal pleasure.

I am not being overly harsh. Overtly hostile, yes, but exactly the right amount of harsh.

History is full of really good stories. That's the main reason I got into this racket: I want to make the argument that history is interesting.

I try to turn a written thing, when I'm in trouble with it, into a spoken thing: I start imagining what I would say to someone if I were trying to tell the story or make the argument.

No argument, no matter how convincing, will give courage to a coward

I decided that I would make my life my 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.

The art of conversation is to be prompt without being stubborn, to refute without argument, and to clothe great matters in a motley garb.

Biggest affirmative argument I know in favor of 'If a man die, shall he live again?' is just the way you feel inside you that nothin' can stop you from livin' on.

She is so stubborn, her heart has an argument with her head every time it wants to beat.

Nobody gets killed when they're happy. It always starts with an argument, or a debt.

Winning an argument is losing it as it makes the loser feel bad.

There is no such thing as a convincing argument, although every man thinks he has one.

Those whose cause is just will never lack good arguments.

Truth is congenial to man. Moral truth is then most consummate when, like beauty, it commends itself without argument. The righteous not only does right, but loves to do right.

Originally the big argument was that they wanted to call it "raw and uncut" and I told them I had a problem with that. When you say "raw" it implies that my show is dirty and that's not the case.

Several of them would have protested if they could have found the right arguments.

Use soft words in hard arguments.

Rage can only with difficulty, and never entirely, be brought under the domination of the intelligence, and therefore is not susceptible to any arguments whatsoever.

In disputes upon moral or scientific points, ever let your aim be to come at truth, not to conquer your opponent. So you never shall be at a loss in losing the argument, and gaining a new discovery.

Religious contention is the devil's harvest.

We are all familiar with the argument: Make war dreadful enough, and there will be no war. And we none of us believe it.

There is a definite argument to be made that videogames are becoming an art form put together by artists of different types.

Part of the skill of saying no is to shut up afterward and not babble on, offering material for an argument.

...part of the mind's job was to cast doubt on what the heart knew to be true, and the heart, because it had no words, often lost the argument

Heat is in proportion to the want of true knowledge.

I don't want to get into an argument at the bar with some old racist homophobic person.

The best way I know of to win an argument is to start by being in the right.

No one should expect that any logical argument or any experience could ever shake the almost religious fervor of those who believe in salvation through spending and credit expansion.

I've always felt that the placement of a man's testicles is an eloquent argument against intelligent design.

The greatest danger in any argument is that real issues often clouded by superficial ones, that momentary passions may obscure permanent realities.

The underlying intellectual argument for seeking to tax economic rents retains its force.

In science , all conclusions are provisional, subject to new evidence and better arguments, the very antithesis of religious faith.

You are the strongest argument, yet, against cloning.

The fact that something can be used for good isn't necessarily a knockdown argument for it.

I really do not know, Socrates, how to express what I mean. For somehow or other our arguments, on whatever ground we rest them, seem to turn round and walk away from us.

Reasonable argument is impossible when authority becomes the arbiter.

Also, as a rule of thumb, if you find yourself defending your inalienable right to make someone else feel like garbage, you're on the wrong side of the argument.