Argument Quotes · Page 40

There are no atheists in foxholes" isn't an argument against atheism, it's an argument against foxholes.

— Anonymous

The writings of leading ID proponents reveal that the designer postulated by their argument is the God of Christianity.

— John E. Jones III

“Because arguments require an expenditure of time and energy, we need to consider what is worth arguing about and what is not.”

— Jeanne Segal

I think the biggest mistake I made was this wretched ability to see both sides of an argument.

— John Major

It is not a sensible or intelligent response for us in Europe to ridicule American arguments and parody their political leadership.

— Tony Blair

You can't win an argument. You can't because if you lose it, you lose it; and if you win it, you lose…

— Dale Carnegie

Great novelists are philosopher novelists - that is, the contrary of thesis-writers.

— Albert Camus

Pythias once, scoffing at Demosthenes, said that his arguments smelt of the lamp.

— Plutarch

No one in the final analysis really fails to become a Christian because of lack of arguments; he fails to become a…

— William Lane Craig

Part of the reason that our politics seems so tough right now and facts and science and argument does not seem to…

— Barack Obama

It is not of the essence of mathematics to be conversant with the ideas of number and quantity. Whether as a general…

— George Boole

The uniqueness of humans has been claimed on many grounds, but most often because of our tool-making, culture, language, reason and morality.…

— Carl Sagan

It is quite possible that future generations will look upon arguments about the inferiority of the socialist plan as we look upon…

— Joseph A. Schumpeter

When you're a man, you're often in situations where you have to decide how far you're going to go in an argument.…

— Kenneth Lonergan

We'd won the argument 15 years before, we were just losing the fight. And so it became clear to some of us…

— Bill McKibben

Vegetarians have been around for a very long time - Pythagoreans forbade eating animals more than 2,500 years ago - but even…

— Tristram Stuart

“The vulgar modern argument used against religion, and lately against common decency, would be absolutely fatal to any idea of liberty. It…

— G.K. Chesterton

We're living in a funny world kid, a peculiar civilization. The police are playing crooks in it, and the crooks are doing…

— Jim Thompson

I think there's a fundamental moral issue about whether it's right for a machine to decide to kill a person. It's bad…

— Judy Woodruff

In general, the men of lower intelligence won out. Afraid of their own shortcomings and of the intelligence of their opponents, so…

— Thucydides

The ‘I’ character in journalism is almost pure invention. Unlike the ‘I’ of autobiography, who is meant to be seen as a…

— Janet Malcolm

You know, there is an argument to be made that these extensions of unemployment benefits keep people from going and finding jobs.…

— Tom DeLay

The basic formulation, or bare-bones mechanics, of natural selection is a disarmingly simple argument, based on three undeniable facts (overproduction of offspring,…

— Stephen Jay Gould

[Margot Hentoff] thinks - first of all, she - this I hear from a lot of people beside her. She thinks that…

— Nat Hentoff

Reasonable argument is impossible when authority becomes the arbiter.

— Orson Scott Card

You don't have to attend every argument that you are invited to. Choose your battles.

— Anonymous

My argument is: keep the bloody bottom line at the bottom. That's where it should be.

— Anita Roddick

Accurate knowledge is the basis of correct opinions; the want of it makes the opinions of most people of little value.

— Charles Simmons

You can never win an argument with a negative person. They only hear what suits them and listen only to respond.

— Michael Watson

When heart speaks and heart listens, harmony is produced. When head talks and head listens, argument is produced.

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

In argument about moral problems, relativism is the first refuge of the scoundrel.

— Roger Scruton

The greatest folly is to accept expert statements uncritically. At the very least, we should always seek another opinion.

— Garrett Hardin

We are afraid. But fear confirms life and identifies the source of every successful argument - ourselves.

— Gerry Spence

Any time three New Yorkers get into a cab without an argument, a bank has just been robbed.

— Phyllis Diller

The supposition that the future resembles the past, is not founded on arguments of any kind, but is derived entirely from habit.

— David Hume

The zionist argument to justify Israel's present occupation of Arab Palestine has no intelligent or legal basis in history.

— Malcolm X

I think the attempt to defend belief can unsettle it, in fact, because there is always an inadequacy in argument about ultimate…

— Marilynne Robinson

“Even what those with the greatest reputation for knowing it all claim to understand and defend are but opinions.”

— Heraclitus

When you're in the Middle of an Argument, ask yourself: Do I want to be Right or be Happy?

— Wayne Dyer

The power I exert on the court depends on the power of the power of my arguments, not my gender

— Sandra Day O'Connor