Quotes About Arguments

Indeed, a quick glance around this broken world makes it painfully obvious that we don't need more arguments on behalf of God; we need more people who live as if they are in covenant with Unconditional Love, which is our best definition of God. (p. 21)

It was one of the rituals, the evening telling of feelings. Sometimes Jonas and his sister, Lily, argued over turns, over who would get to go first.

In politics, I am indifferent what side she may be of; I think I have arguments that will easily convert her to mine.

The Amboy Times captured the distinctiveness of Lincoln's maturing political speaking, observing, "His language is pure11 and respectful, he attacks no man's character or motives, but fights with arguments.

A poet's work,' he answers. 'To name the unnamable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world and stop it from going to sleep.' And if rivers of blood flow from the cuts his verses inflict, then they will nourish him. He is the satirist, Baal.

Anyone who wants to understand the world should be open to new facts and new arguments, even on subjects where his or her views are very well established. Similarly, anyone truly interested in morality—in the principles of behavior that allow people to flourish—should be open to new evidence and new arguments that bear upon questions of happiness and suffering. Clearly, the chief enemy of open conversation is dogmatism in all its forms. Dogmatism

Remaining open to the powers of conversation—to new evidence and better arguments—is not only essential for rationality. It is essential for love.

The swamps will run out of flies," said Shudra, "before politicians run out of arguments.

There are a lot of good arguments for birth control, but as far as terminating a life that has already come into existence, I haven't found any.

I should have known better. Pro-life arguments are now based on scientific evidence and the pro-choice arguments are not. That is a cultural, historical fact.

The arguments for purity of life fail of their due influence, not because they have been considered and confuted, but because they have been passed over without consideration.

Their assemblies had taught the Athenians how to discuss all matters openly, with arguments for and against. This was good training in learning how to think.

He was surrounded by peasants, on whom the teeth of his arguments could find no purchase.

It is axiomatic that men who know little are often intolerant of a point of view that is contrary to their own. The bitterness that has been brought about by arguments on public questions is proverbial. Lovers have been parted by bitter quarrels on theories of pacificism or militarism; and when an argument upon an abstract question engages opponents they often desert the main line of arguments in order to abuse each other.

In his early twenties Cicero wrote the first two volumes of a work on "invention"—that is to say, the technique of finding ideas and arguments for a speech; in it he noted that the most important thing was "that we do not recklessly and presumptuously assume something to be true." This resolute uncertainty was to be a permanent feature of his thought.

I understand and accept criticisms of my work, provided they are done with professional criteria and arguments.

There have always been arguments showing that free will is an illusion: some based on hard physics, others based on pure logic.

The Senate floor is and always has been the great arena of our democracy. I spent eight years in my younger life as a boxer, and sometimes when I enter the chamber, I think, 'This is the ring. The American people can see us here and listen to our arguments. This is where the fights matter.'

There's so much stuff flying around online, and it's so easy to get into arguments with people.

Anne is very forgiving. She doesn't care about money, being rich, or clothes. We never argued about finances.

I still quite enjoy watching Fox News because I think it makes me think through my arguments and make sure I'm on the right side.

If you believe certain words, you believe their hidden arguments. When you believe something is right or wrong, true or false, you believe the assumptions in the words which express the arguments. Such assumptions are often full of holes, but remain most precious to the convinced. – The Open-Ended Proof from the Panoplia Prophetica Leto's

If you believe certain words, you believe their hidden arguments. When you believe something is right or wrong, true or false, you believe the assumptions in the words which express the arguments. Such assumptions are often full of holes, but remain most precious to the convinced.

It leads to self-fulfilling prophecy and justifications for all manner of obscenities," Leto said. "This … rhetorical despotism, Lord?" "Yes! It shields evil behind walls of self-righteousness which are proof against all arguments against the evil.