Better off dead Quote by Elbert Hubbard

If you can't answer a man's arguments, all is not lost; you can still call him vile names.

— Elbert Hubbard

Epithets are not arguments. Abuse does not persuade.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

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

— Anonymous

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

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

— Anonymous

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

— Coleman Barks

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 need to regain the art of civil discourse and more practically, I don't think you change anyone's mind by calling them names.

— Steven Petrow

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

— Robert Bolt

Some men do as much begrudge others a good name, as they want one themselves: and perhaps that is the reason of it.

— William Penn

If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make an effort to deserve the name.

— A. A. Milne

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

— Kurt Vonnegut