Argument Quotes · Page 21

We argue with our biology, and the result of that argument is civilization.

— Charles Siebert

I hate people who always turn around an argument on you. Never their fault, always yours.

— Anonymous

Words are weapons, and it is dangerous . . . to borrow them from the arsenal of the enemy.

— George Santayana

Behind every argument is someone's ignorance. Behind every argument is someone's ignorance.

— Robert Benchley

“Bean sighed inwardly. It never failed. Whenever he had any conversation with Ender, it turned into an argument.”

— Orson Scott Card

to rest one's case on faith means to concede that reason is on the side of one's enemies- that one has no…

— Ayn Rand

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

— Fred Allen

When I read passages like this, I want to look for the nearest wall to bang my head against.

— S. T. Joshi

When an objection cannot be made formidable, there is some policy in trying to make it frightful; and to substitute the yell…

— Thomas Paine

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

— Bill Vaughan

The impossibility of conceiving that this grand and wondrous universe, with our conscious selves, arose through chance, seems to me the chief…

— Charles Darwin

If opponents of all important truths do not exist, it is indispensable to imagine them and supply them with the strongest arguments…

— John Stuart Mill

Bob Geldof feels the big picture all the time, even in the smallest argument when someone's saying, 'Well, no, you've got to…

— Richard Curtis

Some theists, observing that all 'effects' need a cause, assert that God is a cause but not an effect. But no one…

— Dan Barker

If you just try to make rational arguments about why people should care about Congo and how 5 million people have died,…

— Nicholas D. Kristof

I think it would be a great improvement if there were no D&O insurance . The counter-argument is that no-one with any…

— Charlie Munger

I am still amazed at the amount of Christian charity [Wellesley] stuck us all with, a kind of glazed politeness in the…

— Nora Ephron

At the very outset I have to tell you that truth is what it is. You cannot mold it, you cannot change…

— Nirmala Srivastava

A computer is like a violin. You can imagine a novice trying first a phonograph and then a violin. The latter, he…

— Marvin Minsky

I am older than you. Believe me, there is no other way to live on earth. Men are not open to truth…

— Ayn Rand

Senate Bill 1062 does not address a specific or present concern related to religious liberty in Arizona. I have not heard one…

— Jan Brewer

Unlike proportionality, progression provides no principle which tells us what the relative burden of different persons ought to be the argument based…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

Aristotle writes that persuasion is based on three things: the ethos, or personal character of the speaker; the pathos, or getting the…

— Randal Marlin

“And your doubt can become a good quality if you train it. It must become knowing , it must become criticism. Ask…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

You can always win an argument with a lady during your last few minutes of your life by telling her that she's…

— Nikhil Saluja

There are really no serious arguments for communion in the hand. But there are the most gravely serious kinds of arguments against…

— Dietrich von Hildebrand

Euclid taught me that without assumptions there is no proof. Therefore, in any argument, examine the assumptions.

— Anonymous

Arguments about Scripture achieve nothing but a stomachache and a headache.

— Tertullian

All I can say is that laughter is my music; I would deeply suspect an argument which hadn't laughter.

— James Tiptree Jr

Surely you do not believe in the gods. What's your argument? Where's your proof?

— Aristophanes

We should not accept moral nihilism unless we find strong arguments to do so.

— Torbjorn Tannsjo

“I wasn’t in the mood for a fight, but fights weren’t always conveniently scheduled. (Jessica)”

— Shannon A. Thompson

“We can only afford two children' is a squalid argument, but more acceptable in our society than 'we don't like children'.”

— Germaine Greer

Getting in an argument with a woman is like being arrested, because anything you say can and will be used against you.

— Anonymous

The combined wisdom and genius of all mankind cannot possibly conceive of an argument against liberty of thought.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

If one doesn't value logic, what logical argument would you invoke to prove they should value logic?

— Sam Harris

“A healthy argument, even with an idiot, is always good; it opens one's eyes to own misunderstandings.”

— Ashok Kallarakkal

Rational arguments don't usually work on religious people. Otherwise, there wouldn't be religious people.

— Doris Egan

“Then, as another afterthought, he had added, “We Don’t Rent Pigs,” which occasioned yet another argument with Call.”

— Anonymous

You punch me, I punch back. I do not believe it's good for one's self-respect to be a punching bag.

— Ed Koch