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Quotes About Argument

If you tell most people what libertarians think, they immediately assume that you cannot mean it all the way, that you're really just taking a position for argument's sake.
~ Dave Barry
Trump will not respond to reasoned argument. He will not be held accountable for the things he said. All you can do is point and laugh. Because the devil cannot abide mockery.
~ Stephen Colbert
America is divided by a great argument about itself. Europe is divided by a great argument about America.
~ Timothy Garton Ash
"Fair, kind, and true" is all my argument, "Fair, kind, and true" varying to other words; And in this change is my invention spent, Three themes in one, which wondrous scope affords.
~ William Shakespeare
Above all, the ability to feel the force of an argument apart from the substance it deals with is the strongest weapon against prejudice.
~ Jacques Barzun
Negative people are worse than negative occurrences. The argument is over in ten minutes - the person may hang around for years.
~ Jeffrey Gitomer
As often happens between men who have chosen different pursuits, each, while in argument justifying the other's activity, despised it in the depth of his heart.
~ Leo Tolstoy
You explain right well, and you shew that you understand argument and are not a mere sophist since you accept that which cannot be denied.
~ Giordano Bruno
In the real world there's an after-effect of disappointment if you lose an argument. But if, to begin with, you're set up not to have this particular autonomy, then you're not disappointed.
~ Jack Nicholson
There is a difference between being a political force, or a political apparent force or a potential force, and between a real discourse or a real argument.
~ Jay Rockefeller
The only way by which you and I can wean orthodox Hindus from their bigotry is by patient argument and correct conduct.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
The fastest way to lose an argument is to lose your temper.
~ Mardy Grothe
The infidelity that springs from the heart is not to be reached by a course of lectures on the evidences of Christianity; argument did not cause, and argument will not remove it.
~ Mark Hopkins
Your assignment,' he bellowed at Kelly, 'was to make a persuasive argument. Demanding to know whether detractors of your position are on crack is not arguing persuasively.
~ Meg Cabot
More words ain't good for anything in the world only to bring on more argument.
~ Will Rogers
In these troubled times we live in, we should remain vigilant and see through populist arguments.
~ King Albert II
The photograph [of Che Guevara], for a civilization now accustomed to thinking in images, was not the description of a single event... it was an argument.
~ Umberto Eco
The argument for collectivism is simple; free market is not.
~ Milton Friedman
You never win an argument until they attack your person.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
My dad, the old professor, used to say, 'Never get into an argument about what's folk music and what isn't.'
~ Pete Seeger
I do not propose to criticize the fatuous argument I have just outlined; here, to expound is to expose.
~ Peter Medawar
The argument that resistance to the war should remain strictly nonviolent seems to me overwhelming.
~ Noam Chomsky
The human being receives the pleasure from music, not from the argument over what it is.
~ Ornette Coleman
Argument does not soften, but rather hardens, the obdurate heart.
~ Orville Dewey