Argument Quotes · Page 34

“Far too many advocates rail against this or that sexual practice; few state clearly and explicitly what we are for.”

— Michael Rittenhouse

On balance, after weighing the arguments, I believe that the time has come for Australia to create a new sovereign wealth fund.

— Malcolm Turnbull

I shall not make an argument ad hominem. My argument is ad bullshitem.

— Richard Dawkins

To strive with an equal is dangerous; with a superior, mad; with an inferior, degrading.

— Seneca the Younger

The argument that keeping Americans overseas is necessary for stopping terrorist attacks is absurd.

— Anna Paulina Luna

“Then everyone would retreat for a nap, after which we would have coffee and cake, sometimes an argument.”

— Aleksandar Hemon

All opinions are not equal. Some are a very great deal more robust, sophisticated and well supported in logic and argument than…

— Douglas Adams

“That’s not a logical argument. I know it isn’t. The thing isn’t Earth-logic anyway.”

— John W. Campbell Jr

If the Church has no the authority to tell its members that they may not engage in homosexual practices, then it has…

— Orson Scott Card

Any political agenda and organization which doesn't begin with personal responsibility is just half the argument. It's just not going to succeed.

— Peter Coyote

“Ad hominem is a notoriously weak logical argument. And is usually used to distract the focus of a discussion - to move…

— Jim Butcher

“The most important tactic in an argument next to being right is to leave an escape hatch for your opponent so that…

— Stephen Jay Gould

We all are learning, modifying, or destroying ideas all the time. Rapid destruction of your ideas when the time is right is…

— Anonymous

“The point is simply to keep the argument going, to ensure that it never reaches a conclusion (which leads to confusion, fatigue…

— Matthew d'Ancona

Biggest affirmative argument I know in favor of 'If a man die, shall he live again?' is just the way you feel…

— Bess Streeter Aldrich

Infidelity is seated in the heart; its origin is not in the head. It is the wish that Christianity might not be…

— Charles Simmons

Don't be stupid. You're a child. You don't know what it means to be in love." And she flung open the car…

— Barry Lyga

The infant-inconvenience kicked in response, and Conall twitched at the sensation. “Active little pup, isn’t he?” “She,” corrected his wife. “As if…

— Gail Carriger

Highly technical philosophical arguments of the sort many philosophers favor are absent here. That is because I have a prior problem to…

— Daniel Dennett

Truthiness is tearing apart our country, and I don't mean the argument over who came up with the word. I don't know…

— Stephen Colbert

I used to say that, as Solicitor General, I made three arguments of every case. First came the one that I planned-as…

— Robert H. Jackson

As an individual navigating this reality, you have to make choices to survive. Sometimes you happily work for free if it's something…

— Astra Taylor

In a discussion of this kind our interest should be centered not on the weight of the authority but on the weight…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

It is so hard for an evolutionary biologist to write about extinction caused by human stupidity. Let me then float an unconventional…

— Stephen Jay Gould

You know you win an argument, when the person responds with whatever.

— Anonymous

I think any List of Best X creates arguments and people saying 'You listed that rubbish?' That's what lists like this are…

— Scott Westerfeld

Argument, as usually managed, is the worst sort of conversation, as in books it is generally the worst sort of reading.

— Jonathan Swift

Rational argument does not create belief, but it maintains a climate in which belief may flourish.

— Alister E. McGrath

I'm merely trying to give you the sort of argument that would appeal to your intelligence.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

Pain is unjust, and all the arguments That cannot soothe it only rouse suspicion.

— Jean Racine

Good and happy people who believe in God are the greatest living arguments for God's existence

— Dennis Prager

“It has been said that a man with an argument is no match for a man with an experience.”

— DC Talk the Voice of the Martyrs

“Every rock-thrower needs something to stand on to have any accuracy or do any damage with the rocks.”

— Dick Keyes

A scholar's heart is a dark well in which are buried many aborted feelings that rise to the surface as arguments.

— Natalie Clifford Barney

Providence and Manifest Destiny are synonyms often invoked to support arguments based on wishful thinking.

— Frank Herbert

“Many a good argument is ruined by some fool who knows what he is talking about.”

— Marshall McLuhan

Remember when we was young, everybody used to have these arguments about who's better, Michael Jackson or Prince? Prince won!

— Chris Rock

In arguing one should meet serious pleading with humor, and humor with serious pleading.

— Oliver Goldsmith

Admirals and Generals always want more ships and more weapons and they take the arguments where they can find them.

— Helmut Schmidt

No one ever converted to Christianity because they lost the argument.

— Philip Yancey