Quotes About Argument

One of the purposes of 'culture', after all, is to make seem 'natural' claims that are not naturally at all; the flimsier the argument, the more noisily it is supported.

This is why the faith of the peoples is and becomes a complementary part of it, and the ultimate argument for the existence of religion within man as long as there will be human beings is that, as long as he will exist, he will love, because he is love, and the ultimate form of love known to man is precisely holiness, whose first characteristic is faith.

I argue very well. Ask any of my remaining friends. I can win an argument on any topic, against any opponent. People know this, and steer clear of me at parties. Often, as a sign of their great respect, they don't even invite me.

The Jewish sages also tell us that God dances when His children defeat Him in argument, when they stand on their feet and use their minds. So questions like Anne's are worth asking. To ask them is a very fine kind of human behavior. If we keep demanding that God yield up His answers, perhaps some day we will understand them. And then we will be something more than clever apes, and we shall dance with God.

What is desire but the hard wire argument given to the mind's unstoppable mouth

Truth is great and will prevail if left to herself…. she is the proper and sufficient antagonist to error, and has nothing to fear from the conflict unless by human interposition disarmed of her natural weapons, free argument and debate.

My opponents' first argument was that the rocks of the earth--which are generally agreed to have once been in a hot and melted state--would have required far longer to lose their heat than the Scriptures described. My reply was that the earth had indeed cooled at great speed, being made possible by a process I termed Divine Refrigeration.

A few months later, Everett followed up with another missive repeating the argument that while this war may not be an abolitionist one on the Union's part due to constitutional restraints, it was a proslavery one on the Confederacy's part.

He rang'd his tropes, and preach'd up patience;Back'd his opinion with quotations.

Say, you told me you thought Les Miserables was the greatest novel ever written. I think Vanity Fair is the greatest. Let's fight. - Joe Willard

A sophistical rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity, and gifted with an egotistical imagination that can at all times command an interminable and inconsistent series of arguments to malign an opponent and to glorify himself.

It's hard to argue with Senator Rand Paul, who, during a lonely protest on the Senate floor, said, "If you were against President Obama's deficits, and now you're for the Republican deficits, isn't that the very definition of hypocrisy?"63 But, of course, he's a hypocrite too, having voted for the massive tax cut.

she suffered from an "impetuosity of feeling." The effort to "say everything in a breath" caused her only to "begin at the end, or dash into the middle" of her argument when she felt the pressure to defend herself. The same pressure "gives my voice a tone, which those around me mistake for anger with them; and thus I leave the impression of having a confused head & a bad temper.

I'll be your minister--" "Of the exchequer? You'd rob me blind." "I would never steal from you," he'd said hotly. "Oh? Where is my tourmaline necklace? Where are my missing earrings?" "That necklace was hideous. It was the only way to keep you from wearing it." "My earrings?" "What earrings?

It's difficult to love someone you don't respect, which is hard to remember when you're having an argument.

We'll kill each other, Priestling." "I'll win most arguments, but you'll get used to it.

There is never a deed so foul that something couldn't be said for the guy; that's why there are lawyers.

Orion loved argument just as much as I did, and we would shout at each other; quarrel violently, and continue to like each other. During

Galileo was challenged because he declared a theory to be a fact and argued with the Church about the genuine meaning of the Bible.

Remember: any fool can argue about anything, but it takes someone strong to hold their tongue to a fool.

Did she herself even believe in God anymore? Why argue over a phantom? They were two fools arguing over lies.

This argument didn't seem to placate the critics, so the AAFP executive

Political debate is often about how to identify and characterize the facts relevant to the controversy in question.

while he was often most influenced by the last person he spoke to, he did not actually listen to anyone. So it was not so much the force of an individual argument or petition that moved him, but rather more just someone's presence, the connection of what was going through his mind—and although he was a person of many obsessions, much of what was on his mind had no fixed view—to whomever he was with and their views.