Quotes About Argument

I like Aristotle, but I don't agree with his cosmological argument about god.

When a political opponent resorts to the racist card, it's a sure sign of moral bankruptcy: there's no decent argument left in the armoury.

As my mind changes, so do my quotes. I empathize with those who, by force, are put on trial for their own clarity of conscience. For that, we must convene by force of argument.

It does bear emphasis that slippery-slope arguments are notoriously invalid.

Few things are more irritating than when someone who is wrong is also very effective in making his point.

I can't talk politics with my cousin because he's such a hypocrite. He's against the death penalty and he hanged himself.

I love hard political debate and I love beating somebody on a political point but what I'm more frustrated by is the politics where you play the man not the politics.

Ammunition beats persuasion when you are looking for freedom.

I grew up in a household where we talked politics a lot and argued politics a lot.

I'm afraid that's in the nature of modern politics - it's as much conducted by abuse as argument.

If you attempt an actual argument with a modern paper of opposite politics, you will have no answer except slanging or silence.

The argument [behind climate change] is absolute crap. However, the politics of this are tough for us. Eighty per cent of people believe climate change is a real and present danger.

This self-defeating behavior, so the argument goes, must be the result of warped domestic politics.

When it comes to matters of pro sports, politics or palate, disparate sides claim their party, team and cola to be superior.

People enjoy convincing others, if others are wrong they convince them towards right, if others are already right they still want to convince them towards wrong.

Frustration is having a debate with a blind man on shades of red

You give us long enough to argue over something and we will bring you in proofs to show that the Ten Commandments should never be ratified.

Een oude theologische strijdmethode: een stelling poneren, zo belachelijk en dom, dat oppositie ertegen automatisch even belachelijk en dom wordt.

The Stoics became experts on argument forms, such as "If A, then B; but A, therefore B" or "Either A or B; but not A, therefore B." These argument forms, which are called modus ponens and modus tollendo ponens, respectively, are still used by logicians.

But if ever there was an argument to be made for the complex, it was sitting before him at this very moment.

The advantage of being married a long time was that one could argue without the necessity of the other's actual, physical presence.

A good debater is not necessarily an effective vote-getter: you can find a hole in your opponent's argument through which you could drive a coach and four ringing jingle bells all the way, and thrill at the crystallization of a truth wrung out from a bloody dialogue - which, however, may warm only you and your muse, while the smiling paralogist has in the meantime made votes by the tens of thousands.

Nay,--conduct hath the loudest tongue. The voice Is but an instrument on which the priest May play what tune he pleases. In the deed, The unequivocal authentic deed, We find sound argument, and read the heart.

So Fancy dreams - Disprove it, if ye can, Ye reas'ners broad awake, whose busy search Of argument, employ'd too oft amiss, Sifts half the pleasures of short life away.