Argument Quotes · Page 34

“The argument of danger only applies to those who live in relative safety. (The Power and the Glory)”

— Graham Greene

Similes prove nothing, but yet greatly lighten and relieve the tedium of argument.

— Robert South

You can't talk about peace nor agreement while terror is used as the main argument.

— Alberto Fujimori

There is only one way to defeat the enemy, and that is to write as well as one can. The best argument…

— Saul Bellow

What I look for in any book is an argument, based on evidence, that changes the way I think about something important.

— Barry Schwartz

When a thing is true, there is no need to use any arguments to substantiate it.

— Vinoba Bhave

The Banh Mi sandwich is really the only good argument for colonialism.

— Calvin Trillin

Politicians dont expect the argument of the day to infiltrate restaurants, but of course they do, because were all human beings.

— Alex Wagner

An argument is a connected series of statements intended to establish a definite proposition... A contradiction is just the automatic gainsaying of…

— Anonymous

Newspapers and their editors have to become as accountable as the rest of us - they are not 'a special case,' and…

— David Puttnam

One of the greatest political delusions of our age was the idea that holding a referendum on our E.U. membership would settle…

— Damian Green

My parents always worked through their arguments and never went to bed angry. They may not have agreed with one another, but…

— Anthony Anderson

..I've been trying to argue myself into thinking these things don't matter, A. Really,I have. But I've lost the argument. And I…

— David Levithan

If you can make someone laugh about something that your opponent or your opposition thinks, that means you've done a really good…

— Jon Lovett

Anecdotes are sometimes the best vehicles of truth, and if striking and appropriate are often more impressive and powerful than argument.

— Tryon Edwards

It is an easy thing to call names; any fool is equal to that ... and the weapon of vituperation is generally…

— Martha Finley

So how do theists respond to arguments like this? [The Argument from Evil] They say there is a reason for evil, but…

— Quentin Smith

Your insult has offended me. If we were at the Peaks, we would have to duel in traditional alil'tiki'i fashion." "Which is…

— Brandon Sanderson

But having considered everything which has been said, one could by this believe that the earth and not the heavens is so…

— Nicole Oresme

A person who knows all the answers, has an opinion on everything, has a certainty backed up by rational argument, has very…

— Edward de Bono

Mein Kampf, this terrible book of Adolph Hitler is outlawed. I made a point in the Dutch parliament that I say to…

— Geert Wilders

[My approach to the Bible, history does really matter.] Everything matters. But I have priorities. For instance, for me to know whether…

— Elie Wiesel

Nothing works on the campaign trail like attacks on candidates for bad attendance. It alienates people on both sides of every issue…

— Dick Morris

Five years of Prohibition have had, at least, this one benign effect: they have completely disposed of all the favorite arguments of…

— H. L. Mencken

Constitutional arguments that seem as dry as dust can have momentous consequences.

— George Will

The best way I know of to win an argument is to start by being in the right.

— Lord Hailsham

Nothing but free argument, raillery and even ridicule will preserve the purity of religion.

— Thomas Jefferson

“He (Larry Summers) can frame arguments with such force and conviction that people think he knows more than he does.”

— Ron Suskind

The moment we want to believe something,we suddenly see all the argument for it and become blind to argument against it…

— Anonymous

A kind, courteous Christian is the most powerful argument that can be produced in favor of Christianity.

— Ellen G. White

The practice of narrative and argument does not lead to invention, but it compels a certain coherence of thought.

— Jean Piaget

To be considered presidential timber, there has to be a measure in the way you present your argument.

— Judy Sheindlin

After an argument, I always think of awesome things I could have said

— Aalaynah Thompson

I know you're mad, so I'm gonna try not to fall asleep during this argument.

— Nikhil Saluja

Any fact is better established by two or three good testimonies than by a thousand arguments.

— Anonymous

Prejudices are rarely overcome by argument; not being founded in reason they cannot be destroyed by logic

— Tryon Edwards

Don't take the wrong side of an argument just because your opponent has taken the right side.

— Baltasar Gracian

My house is small, but you are learned men And by your arguments can make a place Twenty foot broad as infinite…

— Geoffrey Chaucer

Arguing with the girlfriend. Mid argument she says "Were you on Monday night Raw last night?" I had no comeback.

— Zack Ryder

Are there any good arguments in defence of moral nihilism? I think not.

— Torbjorn Tannsjo