Quotes About Argument

I am not getting into the rarebit versus rabbit argument. Whatever you call it, it is still cheese on toast.

Users of slippery slope arguments should take skiing lessons—you really can choose to stop.

One can imagine an argument for the right of a persecuted minority to find refuge in another country able to accommodate it; one is hard-pressed, however, to imagine an argument for the right of a persecuted minority to politically and perhaps physically displace the indigenous population of another country. Yet, as Shapira [Zionist] forthrightly acknowledges, the latter was the actual intention of the Zionist movement.

And if he did hesitate for a moment, he would usually come to the conclusion that the truest argument was an old one: the Earth is round. Let us not be too attached, then, to directions. And this was understandable. To someone from nowhere, every movement turns into a return, since nothing exerts such a draw as emptiness.

Myrtle says some men are like that—jealous even of their wives' women friends. Oh, Stephen, why will you try to take the joy out of everything so? Why don't you let me have a little fun in life without all this argument? I get sick to death of it.

His conduct still right with his argument wrong.

In arguing, too, the parson own'd his skill, For even though vanquished he could argue still.

I find you want me to furnish you with argument and intellects too. No, sir, these, I protest you, are too hard for me.

In arguing one should meet serious pleading with humor, and humor with serious pleading.

There is no arguing with Johnson: for if his pistol misses fire, he knocks you down with the butt end of it.

Beat a man with the strength of your argument, not with the strength of your arm.

Logic is logic. That's all I say.

Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke.

In a world congenial to skepticism, skeptics love to play the skeptic's card nonchalantly as if it were the royal flush that trumped all other cards and could not be countered. For many, it has become the skeptics' way of hanging out a "Do Not Disturb" sign. Simply raise a skeptical objection and retire from all argument. But of course, the simplest response is to turn such skepticism back on itself.

Something has surely gone terribly wrong when Christians are the best atheist arguments against the Christian faith and Christendom their best argument for atheism.

I wondered if in the end I would not be argued into silence by someone in good graces with the world, by the excuses of which the world approved.

We are not children; we might exchange empty theories until we're out of breath and merely end up adhering all the more stubbornly to our respective views

There are two sides to every question: my side and the wrong side.

It were endless to dispute upon everything that is disputable. William Penn

just because a point is well made, doesn't mean it's right.

Chaz scowled at her. "Now cut that

Some have argued that because of its atypicality, Twilight Struggle is not a "real" wargame, but we will leave such jesuitical distinctions to the message boards.

Socrates started an argument with a cow-herd's dog and discovered it had friends;

My grandfather always said that if you don't argue, you can't be proved wrong.