Quotes About Argument

Fanatics end by subverting their own argument. For instance, animal rights activists have some point, and many people feel sympathy with them. But animal rights fanatics do not have a point. They are the sort of people who threaten human beings in their effort to 'defend' animals.

I started out doing multiple characters from day one, when I got my fist job in 'Dumbo's Circus.' I'm used to getting in an argument with myself, throwing myself off a cliff, patching myself up and brushing myself off with an arm around my shoulder.

I like debate and argument, so I'm usually all right with disagreement, and I'm even all right if the critic doesn't come to a clear thumbs up or thumbs down. But I need the disagreement to have some kind of line I can follow on the map. I like following an interesting mind along it.

I've got a good imagination, so I can see someone arguing over a parking ticket and imagine they're getting a divorce or something.

The line, often adopted by strong men in controversy, of justifying the means by the end.

To defend his position he piles up text upon text, waves his sword like a blind-folded gladiator, rattles his noisy tongue, and ends with wounding no one but himself.

Locus ab auctoritate est infirmissimus. [The argument from authority is the weakest.]

There was no arguing with a man when he started saying thing like that -- using logic as a weapon.

The response of anybody interested in liberty is that we all have a say and the ability to have an argument is exactly what liberty is, even though it may never be resolved. In any authoritarian society the possessor of power dictates, and if you try and step outside he will come after you.

Nothing is as frustrating as arguing with someone who knows what he's talking about.

Nothing is as frustrating as arguing with someone who knows what he's talking about.

In the late 1970s, an intriguing diagnosis of the species problem was given by the biologist Michael Ghiselin and the philosopher David Hull . They argued that the problem as traditionally formulated rested on a mistaken assumption, namely that a biological species is a kind, or type, of thing. Instead, they argued that a species is a complex individual; that is, a particular thing.

It has been argued that close attention to the history of science is indispensable for doing good philosophy of science.

He'd undertake to prove, by force Of argument, a man's no horse. He'd prove a buzzard is no fowl, And that a Lord may be an owl, A calf an Alderman, a goose a Justice, And rooks, Committee-men or Trustees.

He could distinguish and divideA hair 'twixt south and southwest side,On either which he would dispute,Confute, change hands, and still confute.

He'd run in debt by disputation,And pay with ratiocination.

Theist and atheist: The fight between them is as to whether God shall be called God or shall have some other name.

I have found you an argument; but I am not obliged to find you an understanding.

You raise your voice when you should reinforce your argument.

There's tons of junk food for your mind on the Internet. You can sit there for three or 10 or 20 hours a day getting in online arguments with other people who also choose to waste their time.

People here argue about religion interminably, but it appears that they are competing at the same time to see who can be the least devout.

The law will argue any thing, with any body who will pay the law for the use of its brains and its time.

I've enjoyed doing Wolf Blitzer's program, and I even enjoyed having a heated debate with Bill O'Reilly. I will do it any time.

Any time three New Yorkers get into a cab without an argument, a bank has just been robbed.