Argument Quotes · Page 34

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

— Lena Dunham

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

— John Mearsheimer

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

— Hasan Minhaj

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

— Benjamin Banneker

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

— Deborah Tannen

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

— Jarod Kintz

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

— Adam Clarke

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

— Torbjorn Tannsjo

Is there a free speech crisis on college campuses? One can certainly make that argument, but that portrayal is at least as…

— Bret Weinstein

An argument can be logically valid, but unsound in that it contains a false premise and, therefore, leads to a false conclusion…

— Sam Harris

“Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers who can cut through the argument debate and doubt to offer a solution everybody can…

— Colin Powell

Hence our verdict on these reformulated versions of St. Anselm's argument must be as follows. They cannot, perhaps, be said to prove…

— Alvin Plantinga

That's not really important what religion people are attached to, because by the same argument I have a lot of Christian friends…

— Paul McCartney

The only good thing that we owe to Plato and Aristotle is that they brought forward many arguments which we can use…

— Girolamo Savonarola

Originally the big argument was that they wanted to call it "raw and uncut" and I told them I had a problem…

— Gabriel Iglesias

A moral argument about whether censorship is good or bad deteriorates quickly into accusations about who is more or less patriotic, moral,…

— Rebecca MacKinnon

Coming out, all the way out, is offered more and more as the political solution to our oppression. The argument goes that,…

— Jane Rule

I grew up in a family that despised displays of strong emotion, rage in particular. We stewed. We sulked. When arguments did…

— Koren Zailckas

There are millions of Americans outside Washington who are tired of stale political arguments and are moving this country forward. They believe,…

— Barack Obama

We have the industrial agriculturalists who try and make an argument that big is beautiful. But if you do the math, and…

— Raj Patel

Theology is a non-subject. I'm not saying that professors of theology are non-professors. They do interesting things, like study biblical history, biblical…

— Richard Dawkins

we have not been impressed with any attribute of the Senate other than its appearance and manners. We have heard the best…

— Beatrice Webb

A man needs no arguments to make him discern and approve what is beautiful: it strikes at first sight, and attracts without…

— George Berkeley

A remarkable tour de force that will hopefully end forever the argument that science and the spiritual are opposed to one another.…

— James Fadiman

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

— Andrew Mitchell

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

— Immanuel Kant

For it is not metres, but a metre-making argument that makes a poem.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Intelligence is measured by a person's ability to see validity within both sides of contradicting arguments.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

Once you've created a connection of empathy, rational arguments can play a supportive role.

— Nicholas D. Kristof

I had inherited what my father called the art of the advocate, or the irritating habit of looking for the flaw in…

— John Mortimer

Argument (ar*gyou*ment) n. -- A discussion that occurs when you're right, but he just hasn't realized it yet.

— Nikhil Saluja

Most people go through their whole lives without killing anybody. False argument.

— Lois McMaster Bujold

There's nothing so passionate as a vested interest disguised as an intellectual conviction.

— Sean O'Casey

“The immoral woman in Luke 7 has the faith to anticipate Christ's forgiveness. She can act in love with no words to justify.”

— Jenn Thoman

If you can't answer a man's arguments, all is not lost; you can still call him vile names.

— Elbert Hubbard

I've always had an argument with my best friend that Spider-Man was way better than Batman. I was a massive fan growing…

— Tom Holland

I never saw an instance of one or two disputants convincing the other by argument.

— Thomas Jefferson

One of the most compelling arguments for the Christian faith is the simple fact that it survived.

— Andy Stanley

Be able to defend your arguments in a rational way. Otherwise, all you have is an opinion.

— Marilyn vos Savant

On stage, it's like an argument going on between four people. The argument is the art.

— John Waite