Quotes About Argument

I remember having an argument with Alan, I said the Queen's not just going to call the guy up and send him out to do it. And Alan says, well, how would a monarch give orders to her assassin.

Bluster, sputter, question, cavil; but be sure your argument be intricate enough to confound the court.

And you can't have an Allman Brothers gig without an Allman brother. I've heard people try to argue that you can, but I'm not buying it.

Defining the terms of the debate generally dictates who's gonna' win it.

Set a good example as parents, since the most convincing argument that a girl can become a computer coder is that her mother is one.

I think if you make a good movie, people walk away arguing.

At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.

The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it.

Einer hat immer Unrecht: aber mit zweien beginnt die Wahrheit. Einer kann sich nicht beweisen: aber zweie kann man bereits nicht widerlegen.

with its aid one can play the tyrant; one compromises by conquering. The dialectician leaves it to his opponent to demonstrate he is not an idiot: he enrages, he at the same time makes helpless. The dialectician devitalizes his opponent's intellect.

At times, one can win clever people over to a principle merely by presenting it in the form of an outrageous paradox.

The hardest thing to find in the world today is an argument. Because so few are thinking, naturally there are found but few to argue. Prejudice there is in abundance and sentiment too, for these things are born of enthusiasms without the pain of labor. Thinking, on the contrary, is a difficult task; it is the hardest work a man can do — that is perhaps why so few indulge in it.

Wise men argue causes; fools decide them.

Whenever you argue with another wiser than yourself in order that others may admire your wisdom, they will discover your ignorance.

Denied anything ardently desired, the individual or state will argue and parley just so long - then, if the impelling motive be sufficiently great, will cast aside every rule and break down every acquired inhibition, plunging viciously after the object wished; all the more fantastically savage because of previous repression.

Our criminal justice system is fallible. We know it, even though we don't like to admit it. It is fallible despite the best efforts of most within it to do justice. And this fallibility is, at the end of the day, the most compelling, persuasive, and winning argument against a death penalty.

Those who invalidate reason ought seriously to consider whether they argue against reason with or without reason.

The duty of rhetoric is to deal with such matters as we deliberate upon without arts or systems to guide us, in the hearing of persons who cannot take in at a glance a complicated argument or follow a long chain of reasoning.

A witty saying proves nothing.

Most of the time, you can beat a woman in an argument.

Speaking is the one trait in which woman is superior to man. Consider what happens when a couple argues. The man tries to talk to the woman. The stupid fool - he can never win.

There is hardly a case in which the dispute was not caused by a woman.

The best movies have one sentence that they're exploring, a thesis, something that people can argue about over dinner afterward.

It is better to discuss things, to argue and engage in polemics than make perfidious plans of mutual destruction.