Argument Quotes · Page 43

Affect not little shifts and subterfuges to avoid the force of an argument.

— Isaac Watts

Sometimes it's better to lose the argument than lose the person or the relationship.

— Nishan Panwar

To some Christianity is an argument. To many it is a performance. To a few, it is experience.

— Vance Havner

The more history I learnt, the less interested I got in winning arguments and the more interested in establishing the truth.

— Hilary Mantel

“The definition of stupid is the inabilitly to see another side to an argument other than one's own.”

— James Rozoff

Let us face it: in the world today, money and economic strength remain more powerful arguments than the number of people you…

— Guy Verhofstadt

“There is no point in winning an argument if you know or suspect you are wrong.”

— John Piper

“Mock and ridicule men who refuse to use reason and logic; use reason and logic against men who know only how to…

— Criss Jami

A crucial contribution to the ideological argument ...it provides a vital part of the intellectual manifesto on which the battle for a…

— Roy Hattersley

The argument that John F. Kennedy was a closet peacenik, ready to give up on what the Vietnamese call the 'American War'…

— Rick Perlstein

One thing about liberals: It doesn't even occur to them that there is another side to an argument. They are so convinced…

— Monica Crowley

I want to write about serious things, but I want to write about them in a way that makes them accessible to…

— Sebastian Faulks

Afghanistan would have been difficult enough without Iraq. Iraq made it impossible. The argument that had we just focused on Afghanistan we'd…

— Michael Hastings

“If someone has the power to make a change that he or she can see will reduce injustice in the world, then…

— Thandeka Gqubule

The humanitarian argument is so selective I find it difficult to swallow. It's not even so much about the choice as to…

— Michael Hastings

I should have known better. Pro-life arguments are now based on scientific evidence and the pro-choice arguments are not. That is a…

— Stanley Fish

In matters of great concern, and which must be done, there is no surer argument of a weak mind than irresolution; to…

— John Tillotson

“It is enough to write a few lines about tanks in the streets in some sad country, about a clear injustice, which…

— Dejan Stojanovic

New knowledge has led to the recognition in the theory of evolution of more than a hypothesis. It is indeed remarkable that…

— Pope John Paul II

I rely heavily on Thomas Sowell's magnificent book, Black Rednecks, White Liberals. He points out that blacks in the North perform better,…

— Ann Coulter

In fact, the libertarian would reason that the fact that human nature is a mixture of both good and evil provides its…

— Murray Rothbard

We had an argument, and he told me to be home at midnight, and I said no. And so when I did…

— Delilah

Unlike liberalism, with its fundamental belief in the long-range power of ideas, conservatism is bound by the stock of ideas inherited at…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

Those who direct the maximum force of their desires towards the center, toward the true being, toward perfection, seem quieter than the…

— Hermann Hesse

When you let someone else win an argument, often you both end up winners.

— Richard Carlson

That's what the new definition of racist is: It's a conservative that's winning an argument!

— Kris Kobach

In an argument; Men use reason and never have enough. Women use emotion and always have too much.

— Anonymous

Contempt is the emotion we feel for an opponent whose arguments are too formidable to refute.

— Ann Coulter

I think that we may lose the argument, but I think we have to talk about gun control.

— Chuck Todd

“The moral argument ends the moment someone tries to hurt the people you love.”

— Adrian Howell

Arguments hardly affect the faithful- their beliefs have an entirely different foundation.

— Paul Feyerabend

History is a long and endlessly interesting argument, where evidence is everything and storytelling is everything else.

— Jill Lepore

Because of Facebook I never miss an argument, know when there's gonna be a fight and when people break up.

— Anonymous

She is so stubborn, her heart has an argument with her head every time it wants to beat.

— Catherynne M. Valente

Most people see no reason to stop arguing just because an issue has been decided.

— Mason Cooley

Sometimes when we fight with those we love, it is not victory that we seek, but peace.

— Mercy Pheona

To know all is to understand all, and this leaves no room for judgement and condemnation.

— Clarence Darrow

An argument is always about what has been made more important than the relationship.

— Hugh Prather

The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence.

— Ayn Rand

You must force yourself to consider opposing arguments. Especially when they challenge your best loved ideas.

— Charlie Munger