Argument Quotes · Page 24

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

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

— Anonymous

The argument, now, is about whether Bolshevik Russia was 'better' than Nazi Germany. In the days when the New Left dawned, the…

— Martin Amis

Arithmetic has a very great and elevating effect, compelling the soul to reason about abstract number, and rebelling against the introduction of…

— Plato

During the sole argument we had when [Chelsea] was in high school, the subject of which I don't even remember, I looked…

— William J. Clinton

The Republicans, in the various arguments, repeat exactly the same phrases one after another, with no sense of embarrassment, no sense of…

— Jay Rockefeller

Philosophical progress changes what we take to be "intuitively" obvious, and this change covers up the tracks of the laborious arguments that…

— Rebecca Goldstein

One of the great commandments of science is, 'Mistrust arguments from authority'. (Scientists, being primates, and thus given to dominance hierarchies, of…

— Carl Sagan

The argument [behind climate change] is absolute crap. However, the politics of this are tough for us. Eighty per cent of people…

— Tony Abbott

Eliot said that "genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood." What he meant by that is, the emotional understanding comes before…

— Fred D'Aguiar

My spirits rose as I went deeper; into the forest; but I could not regain my former elasticity of mind. I found…

— George MacDonald

Filmmaking materials are in the hands of more people now than ever before. I would like to think that the more people…

— Murray Horwitz

“When I find that stubbornness continually overrides common sense regardless of the logic of my argument, it seems that the only effective…

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

Only in the 20th century, artists started taking the study of perception in a more humane way. They were thinking about the…

— Vik Muniz

Nelson Mandela stood up against a great injustice and was willing to pay a huge price for that. That's the reason he's…

— Rick Santorum

The Unconscious Civilisation There is a certain terrifying dignity to the big ideologies. With the stroke of an intellectual argument the planet…

— John Ralston Saul

I think we've produced a stronger prohibition on real racism, while maintaining freedom of speech in ordinary public discussion. So I'm very…

— Tony Abbott

A good argument diluted to avoid criticism is not nearly as good as the undiluted argument, because we best arrive at truth…

— Clarence Thomas

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

— Cullen Hightower

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

— Anonymous

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

— Anton Chekhov

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

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

— Bill Whittle

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

— Rebecca Solnit

There is no satisfaction to be derived from having had many of our arguments borne out by events.

— Charles Kennedy

Arguments cannot be answered by personal abuse; there is no logic in slander, and falsehood, in the long run, defeats itself.

— Anonymous

“A universal weakness of humanity is to equate the strength of an argument with their opinion of its maker.”

— Iain Gately

Fine: This is the word women use to end an argument when they are right and you need to shut up.

— Anonymous

When a man is afraid and accedes to fear, he will always find arguments to justify his own surrender.

— Natan Sharansky

When a person begins to yell during an argument, it is a tip-off that he is unsure of himself.

— Anonymous

All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently to be a great evil.

— Samuel Johnson

Nothing sucks more than that moment during an argument when you realize you're wrong. -T-Shirt

— Darynda Jones

You have such strong words at command, that they make the smallest argument seem formidable.

— George Eliot