Quotes About Argument

To argue about justice is unavoidably to argue about virtues, about substantive moral and even spiritual questions.

The way to put oneself in a position to take the harder, more honorable political path is to argue for one's virtues in a vigorous way.

People romanticize struggle and obscurity, and I get that, but it's a very one-dimensional argument to say that people who have money are evil, and artists who are poor are virtuous.

There are three ways to argue with a woman. None of them work. —Dutch Callahan

even arguing with you is better than not having you around to argue with." Rafe looked over at Sebastian. "Does he always talk this much?" "Afraid so, but every now and then he does say something worth listening to.

Behind every argument is someone's ignorance.

The argument was wilful, The alternatives untrue, We need no metaphysics To sanction what we do Or to muffle us in comfort From what we did not do.

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.

There is no good in arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat.

Marx and Engels never tried to refute their opponents with argument. They insulted, ridiculed, derided, slandered, and traduced them, and in the use of these methods their followers are not less expert. Their polemic is directed never against the argument of the opponent, but always against his person.

As a prosecutor, you've got the burden of proof. As a defense lawyer, all you have to do is introduce a tiny doubt.

Must you argue everything ? Yeah. I'm a lawyer.

The number-one reason most people lose arguments is not because they're wrong; it's because they don't know when to quit.

It seemed as though he had a fundamental belief that the merit of his argument depended on the strength of his feelings about the matter, and since he always felt uncontrollably passionate about everything, then clearly he was always right. This irrational claptrap, coming as it did from a swarthy, excitable, plump Celtic demi-dwarf, struck me not just as thoroughly impertinent but also as a noisy and ignorant attempt to undermine the most basic principles of the Enlightenment.

I'd rather lose an argument to you, than lose you to an argument.

If you get caught in an argument, just accept that you can have only two outcomes from it: win or lose. Settle with one and just move on.

An Argument needs no reason; Nor any friendship.

Truth springs from argument amongst friends.

When a girl is mad, NOTHING is off limits! She'll bring up stuff from an argument you had a month ago just to get her point across!

I rather argue with you than be right all by myself.

A society that believes in nothing can offer no argument even against death. A culture that has lost its faith in life cannot comprehend why it should be endured.

Typography has one plain duty before it and that is to convey information in writing. No argument or consideration can absolve typography from this duty.

It now seems to me that the findings of more than fifty years of DNA research have provided materials for a new and enormously powerful argument to design.

Although I was once sharply critical of the argument to design, I have since come to see that, when correctly formatted, this argument constitutes a persuasive case for the existence of God.