Argument Quotes

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We aren't engaged in any negative protest and in any negative arguments with anybody. We are saying that we are determined to be men. We… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
I do see that there is an argument against suicide: the grief of the worshipers left behind, the awful famine in their hearts, these are… — Mark Twain
When neither high purpose nor the categorical imperatives of religion will do, the only argument against suicide is life itself. You pause and attend: the… — Al Alvarez
If someone puts up the argument that King Louis gave the Romagna to Pope Alexander, and the kingdom of Naples to Spain, in order to… — Niccolo Machiavelli
During the sole argument we had when [Chelsea] was in high school, the subject of which I don't even remember, I looked at her and… — William J. Clinton
Sir, I have found you an argument; but I am not obliged to find you an understanding. — Samuel Johnson
Answer them critics with silence and indifference. It works better, I assure you, than anger and argument. . . . — Gioachino Rossini
We are all familiar with the argument: Make war dreadful enough, and there will be no war. And we none of us believe it. — John Galsworthy
My father always used to say, "Don't raise your voice. Improve your argument." — Desmond Tutu
I have stated it plain, an' my argument's thus ( It's all one, says the Sapper) There's only one Corps which is perfect - that's… — Rudyard Kipling
That a thing is peculiar; is no argument for its being blamable; since the most criminal actions are to a being like man not more… — John Stuart Mill
An experience teaches only the good observer; but far from seeking a lesson in it, everyone looks for an argument in experience, and everyone interprets… — Andre Gide
We who feel that justice is not being done have but one thing to do: that is fight, by argument, by example, by insistence on… — Theodore Dreiser
Argument is the worst sort of conversation. — Jonathan Swift
There is no such thing as a convincing argument, although every man thinks he has one. — E. W. Howe
Nothing sways the stupid more than arguments they can't understand. — Jean Francois Paul de Gondi
If you examined a hundred people who had lost their faith in Christianity, I wonder how many of them would turn out to have reasoned… — C.S. Lewis
He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument. — William Shakespeare
Let your life be your argument. — Albert Schweitzer
Every gay reader understands the secret self that is full and wonderful and has longing and tenderness and a desire for connection to other people.… — Lynda Carter

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