Argument Quote by Elbert Hubbard

If you cannot answer a man's argument, all it not lost; you can still call him vile names.

— Elbert Hubbard

Epithets are not arguments. Abuse does not persuade.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

Arguments cannot be answered by personal abuse; there is no logic in slander, and falsehood, in the long run, defeats itself.

— Anonymous

A man that should call everything by its right name would hardly pass the streets without being knocked down as a common enemy.

— Anonymous

man is vile, and man makes nothing worth making, knows nothing worth knowing.

— Kurt Vonnegut

It is a sad truth, but we have lost the faculty of giving lovely names to things. Names are everything. I never quarrel with…

— Oscar Wilde

We cannot ask a man what he will do, and if we should, and he should answer us, we should despise him for it.…

— Abraham Lincoln

If a person can be said to have the wrong attitude, there is no need to pay attention to his arguments.

— John McCarthy

A false argument should be refuted, not named. That's the basic idea behind freedom of speech. Arguments by name-calling, rather than truth and light,…

— Ann Coulter

It's such a foolish thing to argue about names, when what we're doing is all one thing.

— Coleman Barks

Even hatred of vileness Distorts a mans features.

— Bertolt Brecht

I am used to hear bad men misuse the name of God, yet God exists.

— Robert Bolt