Argument Quotes · Page 42

For good ideas and true innovation, you need human interaction, conflict, argument, debate.

— Margaret Heffernan

Forget the Bible, the greatest argument against human evolution is a YouTube comment thread.

— Damien Fahey

I'd like to see the argument made for greater worldwide federalism, not just the European Union.

— Ben Miller

There are all kinds of stupid people that annoy me but what annoys me most is a lazy argument.

— Christopher Hitchens

Change happens not just by giving the mind new arguments but also by feeding the imagination new beauties

— Timothy Keller

Red lines are kind of political arguments that are used to try to put people in a corner.

— Leon Panetta

The most powerful argument of all for saving open space is economics; in most states, tourism is the number two industry.

— Jim Fowler

In one sense I feel that my book is a one-woman argument against determinism.

— Susan Griffin

Truth is congenial to man. Moral truth is then most consummate when, like beauty, it commends itself without argument. The righteous not…

— Francis William Newman

The best Reformed theology isn't just about careful arguments for theologically sophisticated conclusions. It is about how to live the Christian life.

— Oliver D. Crisp

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

— Sydney J. Harris

They believed that Britain was in Ireland defending their own interests, therefore the Irish had the right to use violence to put…

— John Hume

So you see how endlessly futile and fruitless it would be if we wanted to refute their objections every time they obstinately…

— Anonymous

Well, it's 15 years since Sex, Lies And Videotape, and if you hang around long enough you're having the same arguments with…

— Steven Soderbergh

The mark, to me, of a constructive argument is one that looks at a specific problem and says, 'What shall we do…

— Gloria Steinem

“A major source of objection to a free economy is precisely that it ... gives people what they want instead of what…

— Milton Friedman

As a Democrat, one of the things that frustrates me the most is there are a lot of times we just don't…

— Elizabeth Warren

Ordinarily logic is divided into the examination of ideas, judgments, arguments, and methods. The two latter are generally reduced to judgments, that…

— Andre-Marie Ampere

I am passionate about truth and passionate about clarity, and I don't regard myself as particularly militant or aggressive. I simply wish…

— Richard Dawkins

Ensures that more and more domestic disputes will end in the ultimate tragedy, and that more convenience store confrontations over loud music…

— Jason Whitlock

Anyone should be able to express themselves in any context. Obviously, there are arguments against appropriation, but it's one thing when someone…

— Christian Scott

China is incredibly important to the future of mankind. For me, this is something that we all need to have intelligent discussions…

— Jamie Hewlett

I know that with consecration on the part of believers, separation from the world, disentanglement from enslaving sins, and a mighty baptism…

— Abbott Eliot Kittredge

For all its beauty, honesty, and effectiveness at improving the human condition, science demands a terrible price - that we accept what…

— David Brin

They say cowardice is infectious; but then argument is, on the other hand, a great emboldener.

— Anonymous

Indeed, in Russia there is a terrible poverty of facts, and a terrible abundance of reflections of all sorts.

— Anton Chekhov

A smart statement for changing your life: Never raise your voice...Just improve the quality of your argument. Then see the difference!

— Anonymous

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

— Cullen Hightower

The trial lawyer does what Socrates was executed for: making the worse argument appear the stronger.

— Irving Kaufman

Be a man, one who avoids confrontation. Even if that means taking the 'L' in an argument..

— Raghib Clitso

The power of large corporations is still a scourge on the earth, but at least the arguments supporting them are undermined now.

— Rebecca Solnit

Liberals want Conservatives to shut up. Conservatives want Liberals to keep talking. Because our arguments make sense and theirs don't

— Bill Whittle

It's very hard to make arguments about the effects of cloning on family relations if family relations are in tatters.

— Leon Kass

I even accept for the sake of argument that sexual orgies eliminate social tensions and ought to be encouraged.

— Antonin Scalia

Avoid arguments, but whenever a negative attitude is expressed, counter with a positive and optimistic opinion.

— Norman Vincent Peale

There's one argument that says we shouldn't be putting these kids on under the age of 16. I think you've got to…

— Simon Cowell

Academical disputation gives vigor and briskness to the mind thus exercised, and relieves the languor of private study and meditation.

— Isaac Watts

An argument may remove doubt, but only the Holy Spirit can convict of truth.

— Ravi Zacharias

The argument from improbability, properly deployed, comes close to proving that God does not exist.

— Richard Dawkins

If you have a very commanding argument that you cannot refute, not to accept the argument is to act irrationally.

— Robert F. Almeder