Argument Quotes

I think that the, Ted Cruz is not even a natural-born citizen, argument will resonate for at least the next few weeks.

Successful argument is a communication between the acknowledged authority of both parties to the argument.

The real argument against aristocracy is that it always means the rule of the ignorant. For the most dangerous of all forms of ignorance is ignorance of work.

If you attempt an actual argument with a modern paper of opposite politics, you will have no answer except slanging or silence.

You explain right well, and you shew that you understand argument and are not a mere sophist since you accept that which cannot be denied.

I'm in favor of any form of sexual relationship that gives pleasure to those involved. And I have never heard a convincing argument to the contrary.

There's an argument that celebrities stop growing mentally the moment they reach stardom and then they just - everything goes away. I think that's true.

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 formula of the argument is simple and familiar: to dispose of a problem all that is necessary is to deny that it exists.

Who is apt, on occasion, to assign a multitude of reasons when one will do? This is a sure sign of weakness in argument.

I don't write about certain arguments I have with my wife. I'd get my head torn off if wrote about certain things.

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.

There is nothing that a New-Englander so nearly worships as an argument.

It is true that there's an economic argument and an economic feeling that something different needs to happen and politicians talking out of both sides of their mouth and all that kind of stuff.

In the real world there's an after-effect of disappointment if you lose an argument. But if, to begin with, you're set up not to have this particular autonomy, then you're not disappointed.

Above all, the ability to feel the force of an argument apart from the substance it deals with is the strongest weapon against prejudice.

There is a difference between being a political force, or a political apparent force or a potential force, and between a real discourse or a real argument.

I am finishing a biography of [Gustave] Flaubert. Because he is the opposite of what I am. One needs to rub up against argument.

I don't like watchingpeople get shot so I would be a little skittish about that - squeamish, but I must say, I don't think the argument that this is going to offend Muslims is a legitimate argument.

Negative people are worse than negative occurrences. The argument is over in ten minutes - the person may hang around for years.

I understand that Republicans-running-against-Obamacare-in-order-to-save-Medicare is a clever jujitsu. But how long will they play out that argument before they get back to the economy?

Yes, 85 percent of the art you see isn't any good. But everyone has a different opinion about which 85 percent is bad. That in turn creates fantastically unstable interplay and argument.

suicide is the ultimate 'one-up,' as it were, the accusation that brooks no defense, the argument won at last.

The test is can you do something, rather than have a theoretical argument - can you make a difference?

When married one has to get into an argument once in a while since in this way one learns about the other.

An ounce of algebra is worth a ton of verbal argument.

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

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

Insight makes argument ridiculous.

I think the biggest mistake I made was this wretched ability to see both sides of an argument.

This self-defeating behavior, so the argument goes, must be the result of warped domestic politics.

Public reason arguments can be good or bad just like other arguments.

Living with the liberals, you get to hear their arguments, fight with them all the time. Keeps me alert.

So long as an opinion is strongly rooted in the feelings, it gains rather than loses in stability by having a preponderating weight of argument against it.

The peculiarity of the evidence of mathematical truths is that all the argument is on one side.

That a thing is peculiar; is no argument for its being blamable; since the most criminal actions are to a being like man not more unnatural than most of the virtues.

I used to think that great art happened without argument, and maybe that’s not the case. Maybe the things that are most important in this life, you have to fight for.

If you have high IQ, you're really good at finding post-hoc arguments to support your feelings of truthiness.

We are told that the possession of nuclear weapons - in some cases even the testing of these weapons - is essential for national security. But this argument can be made by other countries as well.

The argument that today's National Guardsmen, members of a select militia, would constitute the only persons entitled to keep and bear arms has no historical foundation.

I want my arguments to be good arguments on the basis of what I actually have to say.

What use are the best of arguments when they can be destroyed by force?

I don't like your tone," was Violet's standard answer when one of her children was winning an argument.

Philosophy has to be enquiring; it can take nothing on faith, and its methods are based not on the blind acceptance of authority, but on establishing truths by reason and argument.

When people are feeling insecure about their jobs and there are cuts to be made, it's hard to put up an argument that the film industry needs funding.

Burning sage changes the energy for the home, so if you've had an argument or some form of stress, it removes negative energies.

If you go away with, you know, a girlfriend, wife, whatever, you have an argument on holiday because you're not used to spending that much time with people.

Records can ruin you. That's why it's important to be as intimately familiar as possible with the history of recorded music, I guess. In a way, it's an argument for record collecting.

Consumption is the death of capital, and the only valid arguments in favor of consumption are arguments in favor of death itself.

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