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Quotes About Argument

No one ever converted to Christianity because they lost the argument.
~ Philip Yancey
Give me the facts, and I will twist them the way I want, to suit my argument.
~ Winston Churchill
The trial lawyer does what Socrates was executed for: making the worse argument appear the stronger.
~ Unknown
A kind, courteous Christian is the most powerful argument in favor of the gospel that can be produced.
~ Ellen G. White
Rational argument does not create belief, but it maintains a climate in which belief may flourish.
~ Alister E. McGrath
When a person begins to yell during an argument, it is a tip-off that he is unsure of himself.
~ Ann Landers
I shall not make an argument ad hominem. My argument is ad bullshitem.
~ Richard Dawkins
In argument about moral problems, relativism is the first refuge of the scoundrel.
~ Roger Scruton
Our willingness to openly reveal our feelings in our argument nearly always builds our credibility.
~ Gerry Spence
Using insult instead of argument is the sign of a small mind.
~ Laurie R. King
A defeated argument that refuses to be obliterated can remain very alive.
~ Amartya Sen
Don't take the wrong side of an argument just because your opponent has taken the right side.
~ Baltasar Gracian
He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
~ Michel de Montaigne
I later spent... five to eight months in hospitals in New Jersey, always on an involuntary basis, and always attempting a legal argument for release.
~ John Forbes Nash, Jr.
Similes prove nothing, but yet greatly lighten and relieve the tedium of argument.
~ Robert South
Good and happy people who believe in God are the greatest living arguments for God's existence
~ Dennis Prager
That's what we're missing. We're missing argument. We're missing debate. We're missing colloquy. We're missing all sorts of things. Instead, we're accepting.
~ Studs Terkel
The definition of a Racist is anybody winning an argument with a liberal.
~ Bill Whittle
The argument has been made in Congress that it is slippery slope if you allow therapeutic, what people people are calling therapeutic cloning, then you will get reproductive cloning.
~ David Baltimore
What is prejudice? An opinion, which is not based upon reason; a judgment, without having heard the argument; a feeling, without being able to trace from whence it came.
~ Carrie Chapman Catt
In one sense I feel that my book is a one-woman argument against determinism.
~ Susan Griffin
Argument is conclusive, but it does not remove doubt.
~ Roger Bacon
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.
~ Sydney J. Harris
Liberals want Conservatives to shut up. Conservatives want Liberals to keep talking. Because our arguments make sense and theirs don't
~ Bill Whittle