Argument Quotes

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If the reason I give is a good one, you will act upon it. If it is a bad one I cannot make it better… — Robert Green Ingersoll
Arguments cannot be answered with insults. . . . Kindness is strength. . . . Anger blows out the lamp of the mind. In the… — Robert Green Ingersoll
The people of Nebraska are for free silver and I am for free silver. I will look up the arguments later. — William Jennings Bryan
The mental disease of the present generation is impatience of study, contempt of the great masters of ancient wisdom, and a disposition to rely wholly… — Samuel Johnson
The argument that the two parties should represent opposed ideals and policies, one, perhaps, of the Right and the other of the Left, is a… — Carroll Quigley
The Unconscious Civilisation There is a certain terrifying dignity to the big ideologies. With the stroke of an intellectual argument the planet is put in… — John Ralston Saul
An argument is made that there are just too many question marks about the near future; wouldn't it be better to wait until things clear… — Warren Buffett
Carob is a brown powder made from the pulverized fruit of a Mediterranean evergreen. Some consider carob an adequate substitute for chocolate because it has… — Sandra Boynton
A miracle is a violation of the laws of nature; and as a firm and unalterable experience has established these laws, the proof against a… — David Hume
Suckers try to win arguments, nonsuckers try to win. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The social intuitionist model offers an explanation of why moral and political arguments are so frustrating: because moral reasons are the tail wagged by the… — Jonathan Haidt
You canâ€™t make a dog happy by forcibly wagging its tail. And you canâ€™t change peopleâ€™s minds by utterly refuting their arguments. — Jonathan Haidt
With all the arguments and discussions about the Vietnam War, what did the visual image do? It ended the war. — Cornell Capa
I am not a person of opinions because I feel the counter arguments too strongly. — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Those who plead their cause in the absence of an opponent can invent to their heart's content, can pontificate without taking into account the opposite… — Christine de Pizan
The argument of the broken window pane is the most valuable argument in modern politics. — Emmeline Pankhurst
For the sake of argument and illustration I will presume that certain articles of ordinary diet, however beneficial in youth, are prejudicial in advanced life,… — William Banting
I am not very impressed with theological arguments whatever they may be used to support. Such arguments have often been found unsatisfactory in the past.… — Alan Turing
The freedom to own and carry the weapon of your choice is a natural, fundamental, and inalienable human, individual, civil, and Constitutional right - subject… — L. Neil Smith
If every husband and every wife would constantly do whatever might be possible to ensure the comfort and happiness of his or her companion, there… — Gordon B. Hinckley

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