Quotes About Argument

If you want to make the government take a religious side, then make the case, it should be Christian republic.

The good lawyer is the great salesman.

Whenever I find myself arguing for something with great passion, I can be certain I'm not convinced.

People argue themselves out of their pleasures

The zionist argument to justify Israel's present occupation of Arab Palestine has no intelligent or legal basis in history.

History is a long and endlessly interesting argument, where evidence is everything and storytelling is everything else.

History is either a moral argument with lessons for the here-and-now, or it is merely an accumulation of pointless facts.

Some scholars have been arguing that a civilizational clash between organized religions is the next step in human history.

Metaphor is no argument, though it be sometimes the gunpowder to drive one home, and imbed it in the memory.

Put the argument into a concrete shape, into an image, some hard phrase, round and solid as a ball, which they can see and handle and carry home with them, and the cause is half won.

The core of science is not a mathematical modeling--it is intellectual honesty. It is a willingness to have our certainties about the world constrained by good evidence and good argument.

I hope you're representing the devil's advocate.

I do insist on making what I hope is sense so there's always a coherent narrative or argument that the reader can follow.

The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.

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.

If you can't win by reason, go for volume.

If you don't have a sense of humor, you'll hurt yourself arguing with me.

He laid into me with the same gusto as a right-wing political pundit on the O'Reilly Factor defending President's Bush right to vacation six days out of the week.

Let's form a committee tasked with exploring why committees are so ineffective. Then we'll stand-back and watch it argue and self-destruct.

Presenting a rational argument to a person who has forsaken the use of reason is like asking a vegetarian to eat a cheeseburger.

Don't make me cover your face with a pillow until you see my side of things.""Isn't that called murder?

I'm sure my parents must be proud. Or horrified. Or are bitterly arguing about whether they're proud or horrified, and have already hired lawyers to resolve the dispute. -Hayden Upchurch

A long dispute means both parties are wrong.

If you argue with a madman, it is extremely probable that you will get the worst of it; for in many ways his mind moves all the quicker for not being delayed by the things that go with good judgment.