Quotes About Argument

I think, as people, we're isolating ourselves. We're talking to each other through our phones, arguing... those divisions freak me out.

You can't argue with physics, mate.

You can see it on the Internet: There's an argument going on continually about, 'What is folk music?' And I don't really want to get involved in that. It's an endless argument, a 'How many angels can dance on the head of a pin?' kind of argument.

If this phrase of the 'balance of power' is to be always an argument for war, the pretext for war will never be wanting, and peace can never be secure.

I like the concept of escalating warfare, but you need someone to fight back in order for things to escalate. If there's no confrontation or argument going on, it's too dull for me. I think that's the nature of the prankster: Things are too quiet. What can I do?

Many of the alarmists on global warming, they've got a problem because the science doesn't back them up.

Now, I do not, on any level, possess the expertise to argue about the science of anthropological global warming. Nor do you, most likely. This certainly doesn't mean an average citizen has the duty to do the lock step.

It doesn't make sense to argue about how much global warming is caused by man - whether it's 5 percent or 50 percent.

you twist logic to your own purposes." "It's a lawyer's duty," sniffed Phloxia,

A keen wit stabs harder than a finely honed argument.

Cutting losses was the watchword, as was throwing responsibility onto the shoulders of Indians. 'You asked us to quit. We will oblige. Now it's up to you.' The argument was irrefutable, but it was not as if earlier Indian demands had always been met.

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.

Men lose their tempers in defending their taste.

The judge weighs the arguments and puts a brave face on the matter, and since there must be a decision, decides as he can, and hopes he has done justice and given satisfaction to the community.

There is always a certain meanness in the argument of conservatism, joined with a certain superiority in its fact.

For it is not meters, but a metermaking argument that makes a poem—a thought so passionate and alive that like the spirit of a plant or an animal it has an architecture of its own, and adorns nature with a new thing.

It is the fault of our rhetoric that we cannot strongly state one fact without seeming to belie some other.

Questioner: Is an intellectual understanding of the Truth necessary? Maharshi: Yes. Otherwise why does not the person realise God or the Self at once, ie. as soon as he is told that God is all or the Self is all? That shows some wavering on his part. He must argue with himself and gradually convince himself of the Truth before his faith becomes firm.

It was a toss-up which was more pointless: Arguing with an algorithm or talking back to his mother.

Philosophy cannot convince the bullet.

those who offer invective rather than argument discourage others from speaking.

framing creates "a misguided belief that anyone who argued against such measures had to be, by definition, a villain trying to stop the innocent sufferers' champion from giving them their medication, a coward shying away from a full-blown war against an aggressor, or - even worse - one too spineless to stand up to Hitler.

Anytime anyone of my friends in my camp, if we argue, we gonna fight for real.

Obviously I'm a lawyer; I like to have cases.