Argument Quotes

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The number of arguments is unimportant unless some of them are correct. — Ralph Hartley
A criminal trial is like a Russian novel: it starts with exasperating slowness as the characters are introduced to a jury, then there are complications… — Clifford Irving
Liberals are sometimes defined as people who can't take their own side in an argument. — Cass Sunstein
We stand for organized terror - this should be frankly admitted. Terror is an absolute necessity during times of revolution. Our aim is to fight… — Felix Dzerzhinsky
The Banh Mi sandwich is really the only good argument for colonialism. — Calvin Trillin
A. Douglas Stone, a physicist who has spent his life using quantum mechanics to explore striking new phenomena, has turned his considerable writing skills to… — Peter Galison
Silence is an endangered quantity in our time... Silence, embraced, stuns with its presence, its pregnant realityâ€”a reality that does not negate reason and argument,… — Krista Tippett
Culturally, one of the best arguments we can make is, wait and see. — Os Guinness
To be able to bear provocation is an argument of great reason, and to forgive it of a great mind. — John Tillotson
The â€˜Iâ€™ character in journalism is almost pure invention. Unlike the â€˜Iâ€™ of autobiography, who is meant to be seen as a representation of the… — Janet Malcolm
The Bankers' New Clothes makes a simple, powerful argument: that banks need to raise more capital. It is entirely persuasive that the extent of their… — Diane Coyle
Satire works in a bunch of specific ways, like a very precisely-geared bomb. It's a bit like something that looks harmless, and you swallow it,… — Steve Aylett
I've always felt that the placement of a man's testicles is an eloquent argument against intelligent design. — Mark Lawrence
McIntosh is persuasive in his arguments that the scientific facts of evolution cannot stand alone ... science shows that historical evolution, whatever its contingencies, is… — Holmes Rolston III
Tom Reganâ€™s now classicÂ Case for Animal RightsÂ blends careful argument with intense moral concern. For two decades, where Regan has been taken seriously, animals… — Holmes Rolston III
Ultimately, whether we are writing posts, paragraphs, essays, arguments, memoirs, monographs or even just the Great American Tweet, writing is and should be a grand… — Constance Hale
I donâ€™t know why liberals want to disarm the law-abiding population, but I do know that not a single argument proffered stands the light of… — Paul Craig Roberts
I used to think that great art happened without argument, and maybe thatâ€™s not the case. Maybe the things that are most important in this… — Jon Foreman
A rational mind does not work under compulsion; it does not subordinate its grasp of reality to anyoneâ€™s orders, directives, or controls; it does not… — Ayn Rand
The best argument is an undeniably good book. — Saul Bellow

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