Quotes About Rebuttal

If Marxist theory dictates that the personal is always political, the rebuttal of both 'The Americans' and 'House of Cards' is that the political is always personal: the sum total of our collective needs and desires, vows and betrayals.

He paused to write a five-thousand-word rebuttal.

In the words of a best seller, 'You've nothing on me.

Are you the same? Is it only afterward that you think of what you should have said, the killer response,the put-down that would make them stay put down?

My hand is cramping up as I go into a whirl writing out rebuttal points. I glance at the audience again and my eyes connect with Tia and for one second, one minuscule nanosecond, I detect we're on the same wavelength: she's also worried we'll lose. It's the only time we're connected together against another object - not each other.

Among the dozens of hostile articles that have thus far appeared, none has successfully refuted any of its science.

Oratory is the power of beating down your adversary's arguments and putting better in their place.

Having to respond to things that are made up or untrue tends to be a waste of time.

ad hominem attack

Whenever I go on a show with a comedian I just counter punch.

After Seabury rebutted "A Full Vindication," Hamilton struck back with "The Farmer Refuted," an eighty-page tour de force that Rivington brought out on February 23, 1775.

Una opinión no te la pueden censurar, te la tienen que rebatir. Un intelectual sin sentido crítico no un intelectual. Es un adulador.

what an unfair advantage the dead had over the living, for there could be no rebuttal, no denial, nothing but the accusing silence of the grave.

Anybody that makes fun of me, I'm like, 'Yeah, and then I got touched by Hugh Jackman'

Arguments may be refuted, but who, it has been asked, can answer a sneer?

The world can criticize me, but l can always criticize it back.

I said nothing of the sort.

So the next time they mention Bush, your reply should be, "WILLIAM MCKINLEY." Bush has nothing to do with anything.

I vigorously deny hitting Ms. Sheridan.

Tu quoque is the best defense.]

As Tim aptly described it, Larry could hear your arguments, restate them better than you could, and then show why you were wrong.

In the pages that follow, I will show that this bleak assessment of the state of the world is wrong. And not just a little wrong—wrong wrong, flat-earth wrong, couldn't-be-more-wrong.

I write plays because writing dialogue is the only respectable way of contradicting yourself. I put a position, rebut it, refute the rebuttal, and rebut the refutation.

Just because someone makes an inappropriate comment does not make it true!