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Quotes About Argument

The religion that has to be supported by law is without value, not only, but a fraud and a curse. The religious argument that has to be supported by a musket is hardly worth making.
~ Robert Green Ingersoll
The way that same-sex marriage should reach the federal level is that it absolutely should be decided by the Supreme Court as quickly as possible. It's a 14th Amendment issue. There's no argument about it.
~ Tony Kushner
Shrines! Shrines! Surely you don't believe in the gods. What's your argument? Where's your proof?
~ Aristophanes
I bristle a little when the argument for film gets put into the nostalgia ghetto. Film is still the highest quality and best-looking image capture medium available. I don't think it always will be. The digital image will get better, and it will eventually surpass the quality of the film image, but it isn't there yet.
~ Rian Johnson
I)n order to refute a conclusion, you have to put forth the best possible argument for it. (p. 158)
~ Rebecca Goldstein
Ruef attempted to reduce wages by arguing that in the crisis "there is pressing need for mutual concession," so unskilled workmen should accept $2.50 for a nine-hour day rather than $8.00, as it had been before. What made the concession mutual was not specified.
~ Rebecca Solnit
For every well-attested, heavily researched, and eminently authoritative argument made about the historical Jesus, there is an equally well-attested, equally researched, and equally authoritative argument opposing it.
~ Reza Aslan
The Rationalists argued that God's attributes could not possibly exist coeternally with God, but must be a part of creation.
~ Reza Aslan
Eindeutige Tatsachen sind, wie immer, Verhandlungssache – das lernte man schnell im Anwaltsberuf
~ Richard Bachmann
The Bishop goes on to the human eye, asking rhetorically, and with the implication that there is no answer, 'How could an organ so complex evolve?' This is not an argument, it is simply an affirmation of incredulity.
~ Richard Dawkins
Faith is an evil precisely because it requires no justification and brooks no argument.
~ Richard Dawkins
Pascal's Wager could only ever be an argument for feigning belief in God. And the God that you claim to believe in had better not be of the omniscient kind or he'd see through the deception.
~ Richard Dawkins
But the whole point of Hamilton's argument is that the distinction between family and non-family is not hard and fast, but a matter of mathematical probability.
~ Richard Dawkins
Just think what the ordeal must be like for less intellectually robust people, less equipped by education and rhetorical skill than they are, or than Julia Sweeney is, to argue their corner in the face of obdurate family members.
~ Richard Dawkins
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~ Richard Dawkins
Before she knew what she was about, she was jumping about like a crazy woman, yelling, "Yes! Yes! I win!" "You don't win," Anthony snapped. "Oh, it feels like I've won," she reveled.
~ Julia Quinn
If you're that clever you can argue yourself into anything.
~ Julian Barnes
What becomes of a chain of argument when the links are made of different metals, each with a separate frangibility?
~ Julian Barnes
He was too clever. If you're that clever you can argue yourself into anything. You just leave common sense behind.
~ Julian Barnes
Frances Catherine, I'm going to win this argument," Judith announced. She nodded to her friend when she made that prediction. "Why?" "Because it's my turn," she explained. "You may win the next argument." "Lord, you're stubborn.
~ Julie Garwood
I realize you don't understand you shouldn't argue with me, and so I'll explain it to you. Don't argue with me.
~ Julie Garwood
When you're right, you're right. That's it? He was suddenly furious with her and didn't care that it showed. Damn it, she had told him she loved him, and after a one-minute argument, she caved. What the hell kind of love was that? That's all you have to say? No, actually there is one more thing I'd like to mention. Yeah? What's that? You're an idiot.
~ Julie Garwood
We argued for weeks about the existence and then the location of a particular semicolon
~ Julie Schumacher
Shouts and blows may have won arguments for you in the past, fellow. They are pointless in the current situation.
~ Juliet Marillier