Ad-hominem Quote by Jim Butcher

We all resort to the ad hominem from time to time: in human affairs, it is difficult to avoid it, and probably not desirable.…

— Theodore Dalrymple

I shall not make an argument ad hominem. My argument is ad bullshitem.

— Richard Dawkins

I'm a fan of robust debate, and I'm not averse to engaging in the odd ad hominem attack myself.

— Mehdi Hasan

“Perhaps the most common ad hominem fallacy is to attack the motives of the person making the argument. Critics of judicial decisions often cite…

— Robert Carroll

“There is a time to silence an adversary with the honey of logical persuasion, and there is a time to silence him with the…

— Ernest Bramah

Our whole educational system, from the elementary schools to the universities, is increasingly turning out people who have never heard enough conflicting arguments to…

— Thomas Sowell

“He detested objective truths, the burden of argument, sustained reasoning. He disliked demonstrating, he wanted to convince no one. Others are a dialectician’s invention.”

— Emil Cioran

“The man who establishes his argument by noise and command knows that his reason is weak.”

— Michel de Montaigne

“I've always found that a really lively argument depends on the ignorance of the combatants.”

— Guy Vanderhaeghe

“In debate, especially when the dispute is hot and supercharged and freighted with ill will, I have always been the flabbiest of contenders. My…

— William Styron

“Explicit arguments are the everlasting combat tools of a debate winner. Not the raising of the voice.”

— Klaudio Marashi

“His prose, like the thinking it reveals, is full of cloudy suggestions of something beyond the range of mere cognition. He has been given…

— Richard Mitchell