Argument Quotes · Page 35

“I’d like to make the argument that The Cars were the first garage band.”

— Jarod Kintz

Public discourse requires making an argument for a point of view, not having an argument - as in having a fight.

— Deborah Tannen

Multitudes of words are neither an argument of clear ideas in the writer, nor a proper means of conveying clear notions to…

— Adam Clarke

Fallacious and misleading arguments are most easily detected if set out in correct syllogistic form.

— Immanuel Kant

My argument is that charity does indeed start at home, but it doesn't stop there.

— Andrew Mitchell

sometimes I was so bored that I started arguments just to experience the rush of almost losing him.

— Lena Dunham

No matter what side of an argument you're on, you always find some people on your side that wish you were on…

— Jascha Heifetz

Nothing is to be gained by arguing. with fools. Nothing can be gained by reasoning with ignorant people.

— Anonymous

The influence of the leaders is due in very small measure to the arguments they employ, but in a large degree to…

— Gustave Le Bon

So, it seems, everything is in place. For the first time since homo sapiens began to doodle on cave walls, there is…

— Gideon Rachman

Anyone can write an academic piece directed at other academics. To write something that delivers an argument and a gripping storyline to…

— Simon Schama

With reasonable men, I will reason; with humane men I will plead; but to tyrants I will give no quarter, nor waste…

— William Lloyd Garrison

An electrician isn't an opinion former, but a graphic designer is. My argument is that all graphic designers hold high levels of…

— Neville Brody

Most people who serve in Washington have been trained either as lawyers or as political operatives--professions that tend to place a premium…

— Barack Obama

We always plan too much and always think too little. We resent a call to thinking and hate unfamiliar argument that does…

— Anonymous

If you tell most people what libertarians think, they immediately assume that you cannot mean it all the way, that you're really…

— Dave Barry

Because of mathematics precise, formal character, mathematical arguments remain sound even when they are long and complex. In contast, common sense arguments…

— Jacob T. Schwartz

But suppose, for the sake of argument, free competition, without any sort of monopoly, would develop capitalism trade more rapidly. Is it…

— Anonymous

There is nothing - no program, no hobby, no vice, no crime - that does not 'create jobs'. Tsunamis, computer viruses and…

— Chris Horner

Have you ever been with a girl, you had an argument and you wanted to make up with her? As long as…

— RZA

This argument [that life is too improbable to have arisen by chance] comes up repeatedly: its latest manifestation is Hoyle's discussion of…

— John Maynard Smith

We did respect [Bernard Leach], although we also were willing to challenge ideas and at least put forth our feelings about the…

— Warren MacKenzie

[T]he next time you hear serious-sounding people explaining the need for fiscal austerity, try to parse their argument. Almost surely, you'll discover…

— Paul Krugman

On another front of the category-error argument are the insufferable fogeys who think the [Nobel] award is an outrage upon literature itself.…

— David Bennun

To those who think that the law of gravity interferes with their freedom, there is nothing to say.

— Lionel Tiger

A good argument, like a good dialogue, is always a proof of life, but I'd much rather go and read a book.

— Ali Smith

This self-defeating behavior, so the argument goes, must be the result of warped domestic politics.

— John Mearsheimer

I have no influence with the rising generation. All my arguments have failed to induce them to set bounds to their wants.

— Benjamin Banneker

My favorite comedians are just presenting an argument, and they're doing it in a funny way.

— Hasan Minhaj

“Kenny, when's the last time you had a physical," Roddy asks. "What're you...the designated driver of my life?" "Mad Dog House”

— Mark Rubinstein

Oratory is the power of beating down your adversary's arguments and putting better in their place.

— Samuel Johnson

There's always that argument to make - that you're in better company historically if people don't understand what you're doing.

— Elliott Smith

Women get the last word in every argument. Anything a man says after that is the beginning of a new argument

— Anonymous

“What becomes of a chain of argument when the links are made of different metals, each with a separate frangibility?”

— Julian Barnes

Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.

— Albert Camus

The bestway to diffuse an argument is to listen first, second, and last.

— Anabel Jensen

“Every discussion with a girl is an argument, and when you think you are right suddenly you realize that your trapped.”

— Bharat

I'm a politician. I'm not going to get into a whole range of scientific argument with scientists

— Tony Abbott

“My silence towards you is not out of respect. It’s just my way to avoid having another useless argument with you.”

— Garima Soni

An argument derived from the abuse of a thing does not hold good against its use

— Latin Proverb