Quotes About Argument

If you brought me out driving just so you could insult me-" "Oh, not just to insult you.

I'm the King, and I say you go to the dungeon instead of fighting wizards, and no argument.

The other argument [about the Iraq War] was about argument itself. It characterized any argument about policy (whether, in fact, Iraq did have weapons of mass destruction and whether regime change could be effected through an invasion) as unnecessary, dithering, disloyal, and possibly even deliberately evil, since the correct course of action was so obvious. Major media outlets demonized dissent. In a democracy.

Ethos, Pathos, and Logos

Oh, yeah?" Seth says, growing angry. "How did you die again? Freak accident falling down the stairs?

Contrary opinions are one thing, contrary facts are another.

Contrary opinions are one thing. Contrary facts are another." I

The words struck a chord in me. They were the same words that Ben had used a hundred times as he drilled me endlessly in argument. His words came back, admonishing me: What? No defense? Any student of mine must be able to defend his ideas against an attack. No matter how you spend your life, your wit will defend you more often than a sword. Keep it sharp!

The legal aphorism is that when the law is on your side, argue the law; when the facts are on your side, argue the facts; when neither is on your side, attack the witness.)

This distinction between empathy and compassion is critical for the argument I've been making throughout this book.

Every discussion which is made from an egoistic standpoint is corrupted from the start and cannot yield an absolutely sure conclusion. The ego puts its own interest first and twists every argument, word, even fact to suit that interest.

John Quincy Adams resolved to the discipline of rejecting argument for argument's sake would he sees that a fellow cabinet member is trying to draw him in to debating proposals the president will already reject.

arguments are a collage of rhetorical barbs that don't really form a coherent argument.

Los Absolutos se pueden discutir por siempre y nunca resolverse. ¡

Until I come up with something better, the hammer defense." "Huh?" "Classic legal strategy, Nash. If the law is on your side, hammer the law. If the facts are on your side, hammer the facts. If neither is on your side, hammer the table.

Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke." —Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

Objection! Repetitious." Socolow was on his feet. "Sustained. Mr. Lassiter, I do think you've mined this ground." "Thank you, Your Honor," I said, bowing slightly, more to loosen up my back than pay homage to the judge.

pettifogging

During another argument, Gene snapped at Peter: "Peter, you're an illiterate idiot who can't read or even talk correctly and never finished school." "Yeah," said Peter, "and I'm in the same band as you." To this day, that remains the smartest thing I ever heard Peter say.

Gene snapped at Peter: "Peter, you're an illiterate idiot who can't read or even talk correctly and never finished school." "Yeah," said Peter, "and I'm in the same band as you.

Don't counterattack. You may strike back at the person with BPD to try to win the argument or vent your feelings. But when you do this, you'll fall into the projection and projective identification trap that the person with BPD has unconsciously set for you.

They are more likely to hear that you are trying to win an argument by calling them insane and telling them that everything about them is wrong.

With BPD, the cause of an argument is not necessarily the actual event but the person with BPD's interpretation of that event. As you probably know, you and the person with BPD may come to very different conclusions about what was said and done.

Those who cannot attack the thought, instead attack the thinker.