Argument Quotes · Page 8

It is triple ultra forbidden to respond to criticism with violence. There are a very few injunctions in the human art of…

— Eliezer Yudkowsky

Give me the facts, and I will twist them the way I want, to suit my argument.

— Winston Churchill

The one who wanders independent in the world, free from opinions and viewpoints, does not grasp them and enter into disputations and…

— Gautama Buddha

I've never been mugged, never really experienced street fear. In fact, I'm the one who gets into arguments because I don't keep…

— Jodie Whittaker

Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everybody in good society holds exactly the same opinions.

— Oscar Wilde

More and more, we have been able to present the argument that recruitment of child soldiers is a social breakdown that leads…

— Romeo Dallaire

“I leaned against the desk, ran my hand over my father’s paperwork, and picked up a pen. Turning around, I shoved it…

— Shannon A. Thompson

I come from an Italian family. One of the greatest and most profound expressions we would ever use in conversations or arguments…

— Mario Batali

A conservative, I take it, is a man who despises vulgarity; but the argument which is concerned exclusively with calculations of success,…

— Leo Strauss

The abuse of a thing is no argument against the use of it.

— Jeremy Collier

There's the argument that you can relate to someone who's completely unrelatable. In the way that a director shows you his imagination…

— Idris Elba

One of my great memories of John is from when we were having some argument. I was disagreeing and we were calling…

— Paul McCartney

Even when I was a grown woman, he [Father] would leave me on the edge of hysteria in all our arguments: though…

— Maureen Howard

The fastest way to lose an argument is to lose your temper.

— Mardy Grothe

I am not a creationist as the term is usually understood. I believe that the earth is billions of years old and…

— Dinesh D'Souza

The plea of necessity, that eternal argument of all conspirators.

— William Henry Harrison

There is, of course, a legitimate argument for some limitation upon immigration. We no longer need settlers for virgin lands, and our…

— John F. Kennedy

For I am well aware that scarcely a single point is discussed in this volume on which facts cannot be adduced, often…

— Charles Darwin

An argument which proves too much, proves nothing.

— M. M. Mangasarian

“Bean sighed inwardly. It never failed. Whenever he had any conversation with Ender, it turned into an argument.”

— Orson Scott Card

I've always been sceptical about the notion that the market is a person you can engage in an argument with, and that…

— Joseph Stiglitz

We are not won by arguments that we can analyze but by the tone and temper, by the manner which is the…

— Samuel Butler

If we were to one day encounter a form of life more powerful and intelligent than our own, and it regarded us…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

The argument of danger only applies to those who live in relative safety.

— Graham Greene

Theoretically, you can make, obviously, a powerful argument that centuries of slavery, Jim Crow, discrimination are the primary cause for all those…

— Barack Obama