Argument Quotes
1783 quotes by 1284 authors
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The zionist argument to justify Israel's present occupation of Arab Palestine has no intelligent or legal basis in history.
— Malcolm X
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The conservative argument is that the economy is like the weather, that it just operates automatically.
— Sidney Blumenthal
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There will have to be rigid and iron discipline before we achieve anything great and enduring, and that discipline will not come by mere academic…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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I guess when I think about it, one of the things I like to dramatise, and what is sometimes funny, is someone coming unglued. I…
— Wes Anderson
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Most people have learned to live in the moment. The argument goes that if the past has uncertain effect on the present, there is no…
— Alan Lightman
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While we remain a nation decisively shaped by religious faith, our politics and our culture are, in the main, less influenced by movements and arguments…
— Jon Meacham
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If you want to avoid heated arguments, never discuss religion, politics, or whether the toilet paper roll should go over or under.
— Al Yankovic
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I like to do all the talking myself. It saves time, and prevents arguments.
— Oscar Wilde
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Philosophical argument, trying to get someone to believe something whether he wants to believe it or not, is not, I have held, a nice way…
— Robert Nozick
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There is also the very real possibility that, in the justice of God, one of the reasons He uses the weak and the foolish of…
— Neal A. Maxwell
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Let not men then in the pride of power, use the same arguments that tyrannic kings and venal ministers have used, and fallaciously assert that…
— Mary Wollstonecraft
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It is the briefest yet wisest maxim which tells us to meddle not.
— Charles Caleb Colton
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Ridicule is the first and last argument of a fool.
— Charles Simmons
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The best argument is that which seems merely an explanation.
— Dale Carnegie
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The formula of the argument is simple and familiar: to dispose of a problem all that is necessary is to deny that it exists.
— H. L. Mencken
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It is senseless to argue with someone whose sole purpose in life is to not be convinced of anything.
— Jon Campbell
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Why do people always assume that volume will succeed when logic won't?
— L. J. Smith
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Heat is in proportion to the want of true knowledge.
— Laurence Sterne
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There is nothing like instances to grow hair on a bald-headed argument.
— Mark Twain
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Any fact is better established by two or three good testimonies than by a thousand arguments.
— Nathanael Emmons
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