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Quotes About Argument

An argument is a connected series of statements intended to establish a definite proposition... A contradiction is just the automatic gainsaying of anything the other person says." No, it's not.
~ Graham Chapman
The argument that someone is a bad man is an inadequate argument for war and certainly an inadequate and unacceptable argument for regime change.
~ John Major
There are 435 members of Congress. There's one 'Morning Joe' show. Hopefully, we can keep hammering the argument that you can disagree with other people and have debates but remain civil.
~ Joe Scarborough
The fly in her argument is that when she says, 'they' will feel like lemons, we don't know who 'they' are. And 'they' might BE lemons.
~ Louise Rennison
If you want your program to be readable, consider supplying the argument.
~ Larry Wall
If you can't reduce your argument to a few crisp words and phrases, there's something wrong with your argument.
~ Maurice Saatchi
It's the duty of a lawyer to represent anyone for whom a responsible argument could be made.
~ Lloyd Cutler
Often, just as when they were children, it was four against one when some argument came up. At least they no longer sat on him to force him to submit to their wishes.
~ Kristen Britain
It's not fair. It's not fair," she cried, knowing it was a child's argument but not caring, because being childish did not make it untrue.
~ Kristin Cashore
The desertion of Jesus, by his followers, furnishes an argument in support of the supposition that he attempted to be king of the Jews, rather than that he was a superior being.
~ Lysander Spooner
Adrian sifted through the bags and pulled out a slice of coconut cream. "If I were a dragon, this is what I'd go for." I didn't argue, mainly because that statement had no logical argument.
~ Richelle Mead
Are you going to win every argument?" He was pretty certain he'd asked her that once before. May be twice. "Only the important ones.
~ Christine Feehan
Forget the Bible, the greatest argument against human evolution is a YouTube comment thread.
~ Damien Fahey
I'm vey bad at marshaling arguments. I can't, at a dinner party, explain why I'm a socialist and why others should be socialists as well.
~ David Hare
Public discourse requires making an argument for a point of view, not having an argument - as in having a fight.
~ Deborah Tannen
You can find justification for slavery in the Bible. Some say this is what the Bible says and that closes the argument.
~ Desmond Tutu
It's the spring of 2012, that the [Barak] Obama administration would be embracing the argument that the Affordable Care Act was a tax, and that was going to, itself, be a political albatross.
~ Donald Verrilli Jr.
Oh, please. If she's going to use Mr. Darcy to prop up her arguments, I give up.
~ Sophie Kinsella
Father sighed. "Please spare me these arguments of yours." "Whose arguments should I use?
~ Franny Billingsley
Assertion is not argument; to contradict the statement of an opponent is not proof that you are correct.
~ Samuel Johnson
Some People think 'coven' is a word for a group of witches, and it's true that's what the dictionary says. But the real word for a group of witches is 'an argument'.
~ Terry Pratchett
When people say "clearly" something that means there's a huge crack in their argument and they know things aren't clear at all.
~ Terry Pratchett
The argument that today's National Guardsmen, members of a select militia, would constitute the only persons entitled to keep and bear arms has no historical foundation.
~ Joyce Lee Malcolm
What use are the best of arguments when they can be destroyed by force?
~ Jules Verne