Arguing Quotes
1035 quotes by 815 authors
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Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn't argue with that; I'm right and I will be proved right. We're more popular than…
— John Lennon
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Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.
— Abraham Lincoln
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There is no arguing with the pretenders to a divine knowledge and to a divine mission. They are possessed with the sin of pride, they…
— Walter Lippmann
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When people discuss religion, it is a pity that they often become excited and argue. We should merely listen, as one does on a dark…
— Haniel Long
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There is no good in arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat.
— James Russell Lowell
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Ultimately a hero is a man who would argue with the gods, and so awakens devils to contest his vision. The more a man can…
— Norman Mailer
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People and squirrels are very different. Most people will not argue that. But I find that there is one situation in which they're very similar.…
— Demetri Martin
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The difficult part in an argument is not to defend one's opinion but rather to know it.
— Andre Maurois
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Scientists do stand on the shoulders of giants, just as do writers. Conversely, in the arts we do make discoveries. We do refine our tools.…
— Ian Mcewan
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Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.
— John Milton
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He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
— Michel de Montaigne
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If anyone has seen the horrific and unwatchable footage of the Chinese cat and dog trade - animals skinned alive - then they could not…
— Steven Morrissey
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It is as absurd to argue men, as to torture them, into believing.
— John Henry Newman
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When you see something that is technically sweet, you go ahead and do it and you argue about what to do about it only after…
— J. Robert Oppenheimer
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I don't argue when people say that my message is simple, but I believe Jesus' message was simple.
— Joel Osteen
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I would argue that the objective evidence shows that big government is not a friend to African Americans.
— Rand Paul
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I would argue that nothing gives life more purpose than the realization that every moment of consciousness is a precious and fragile gift.
— Steven Pinker
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Academics lack perspective. In a debate on whether the world is round, they would argue, 'No,' because it's an oblate spheroid. They suffer from 'the…
— Steven Pinker
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It has never made any sense to argue that, unique among the people of the world, Arabs are more concerned on a day-to-day basis about…
— John Podhoretz
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Argue with anything else, but don't argue with your own nature.
— Philip Pullman
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