Argument Quotes · Page 118

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

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

— Jean Racine

The main argument is that capitalism is constituted by a varied of different practices, and so challenging capitalism needs to be about…

— Cynthia Kauffman

The only person who listens to both sides of an argument is the fellow in the next apartment.

— Ruth Brown

Men may spurn our appeals, reject our message, oppose our arguments, despise our persons, but they are helpless against our prayers.

— J. Sidlow Baxter

Any president can start a war, and use the chaos of disorder that such a war creates as an indefinite argument for…

— Andrew Sullivan

I have advocated postal reform for many years. The parliament said it was an absurd argument. The people have said it was…

— Junichiro Koizumi

Never argue at the dinner table, for the one who is not hungry gets the best of the argument.

— Richard Whately

...but I could not sleep without proper covering and spent the rest of the night rewriting lost arguments from my past, altering…

— Patrick deWitt

I love books, food, music, sleep, people who work, heated arguments, the United States of America, and my wife and children. I…

— Rex Stout

I simply cannot accept that there are, on every story, two equal and logical sides to an argument.

— Edward R. Murrow

It is prima facie highly implausible that life as we know it is the result of a sequence of physical accidents together…

— Thomas Nagel

Most people see no reason to stop arguing just because an issue has been decided.

— Mason Cooley

I don't really have those kinds of intentions when I write a scene. I try to follow the internal logic of the…

— Rachel Kushner

I've had a lot of arguments with people, but it's never really gotten physical.

— Billy Eichner

Democracy feeds on argument, on the discussion as to the right way forward. This is the reason why respecting the opinion of…

— Richard von Weizsaecker

The people of Nebraska are for free silver and I am for free silver. I will look up the arguments later.

— William Jennings Bryan

It's not about whether or not someone is a bigot, but whether or not the argument which that someone is arguing is…

— Criss Jami

I think the essence of the argument has always been, first of all, the Guild doesn't want writing on spec. And that's…

— Rod Serling

This is a large part of the academic profession: to make up complex, subtle arguments that are childishly ridiculous but are enveloped…

— Noam Chomsky

Whether or not you agree that trimming and cooking are likely to lead on to downright forgery, there is little to support…

— Charles Thomas Jackson

“I see all the more reason for debate by the man who does actually 'believe his own lies' - for that debate…

— Criss Jami

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

— Kevin Leman

We are less than atoms, I say, because the atom obeys the law of its being, whereas we in the insolence of…

— Mahatma Gandhi

Empty is the argument of the philosopher which does not relieve any human suffering.

— Epicurus