Quotes About Argument

Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.

What can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence.

Argument is the worst sort of conversation.

It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.

You have to perform to the best of your ability, and if you have to argue stringently, if you have to persist and to state your case strongly, then you do it.

Silence is one of the hardest kind of arguments to refute. There is no good substitute for wisdom; but silence is the best that has yet been discovered.

Krishna is the higher Self, or God. He sees through the argument at once. In this case [the motive] is weakness.

The most important thing in an argument, next to being right, is to leave an escape hatch for your opponent, so that he can gracefully swing over to your side without too much apparent loss of face.

There is a difference between discussion and argument. A discussion airs the issues, but an argument alleges charges and appoint blame.

One side charges, 'You are decadent.' The other side retorts, 'We are free.' These are not opposing contentions; they're nonsequiturs.

Western man established the initial base for an argument, defined his terms, demolished his opponent with irrefutable logic or was demolished by his own ineptitude of reasoning.

There have always been arguments showing that free will is an illusion, some based on hard physics, others based on pure logic. Most people agree these arguments are irrefutable, but no one ever really accepts the conclusion. The experience of having free will is too powerful for an argument to overrule. What it takes is a demonstration, and that's what a Predictor provides.

Another argument, vaguer and even less persuasive, is that gay marriage somehow does harm to heterosexual marriage. I have yet to meet anyone who can explain to me what this means. In what way would allowing same-sex partners to marry diminish the marriages of heterosexual couples?

A creationist can embarrass an evolutionist by asking for a definition of species.

When you get into a fight with your partner or a friend, you usually have some weird, specific thing that you hold on to that you fight about that has nothing to do with what's going on.

The Republican argument that raising the debt ceiling encourages additional future spending is logically irresponsible. The debt ceiling has to be raised to authorize spending already approved by Congress. Despite that fallacy, the GOP has been able to score political points with its argument.

I love lawyers. And I like to talk to lawyers, and I like to engage in a spirited discussion with lawyers.

It's very hard to argue against the message that we all have AIDS. It's not hard to make the case that we all have been affected, both culturally and spiritually.

I had inherited what my father called the art of the advocate, or the irritating habit of looking for the flaw in any argument.

My parents only had one argument in 45 years. It lasted 43 years.

I had a terrible fight with my wife on New Year's Eve. She called me a procrastinator. So I finished addressing the Christmas cards and left.

When one hears the argument that marriage should be indissoluble for the sake of children, one cannot help wondering whether the protagonist is really such a firm friend of childhood.

The last word in an argument is what a wife has. Anything a husband says after that is the beginning of another argument.

Arguing with my wife is like this: "I came! I saw! I concurred!"