Quotes of: Argument Keyword

I've learned to be true to yourself, stick to the big arguments, don't get distracted by the everyday kerfuffle that is in the nature of any democratic system.

George Osborne

An argument fatal to the communist theory, is suggested by the fact, that a desire for property is one of the elements of our nature.

Herbert Spencer

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.

John Bright

Whenever I run into prejudice. I smile and feel sorry for them, and I say to myself, There's one more argument for birth control.

Freddy Fender

Calling Rand Paul 'the most interesting man in politics' is an invitation to an argument - but one we suspect he'd love to have.

Nancy Gibbs

Men are apt to mistake the strength of their feeling for the strength of their argument. The heated mind resents the chill touch and relentless scrutiny of logic.

William E. Gladstone

Being snappy is a symptom of an argument we forgot to have some way back.

Alain de Botton

It is impossible, or not easy, to alter by argument what has long been absorbed by habit

Aristotle

No references to the need to fight terror can be an argument for restricting human rights.

Vladimir Putin

Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony.

Jane Austen

The dilemma I was faced with was one every parent faces sooner or later: you want to defend your child, of course; you stand up for your child, but you mustn't do it all too vehemently, and above all not too eloquently - you mustn't drive anyone into...

The Dinner

There is something distinctly odd about the argument, however. Believing is not something you can decide to do as a matter of policy. At least, it is not something I can decide to do as an act of will. I can decide to go to church and I can decide to...

The God Delusion

["F]or it's not possible," [Socrates] said, "for anybody to experience a greater evil than hating arguments. Hatred of arguments and hatred of human beings come about in the same way. For hatred of human beings arises from artlessly trusting somebody...

Phaedo

Study so that you are able to meet arguments of your opponents. Equip your ideology with supporting arguments. If you oppose a prevailing belief, if you criticize a great person who is considered to be an incarnation, you will find that your criticis...

Bhagat Singh

Religion... has certain ideas at the heart of it which we call sacred or holy or whatever... If someone votes for a party that you don't agree with, you're free to argue about it as much as you like; everybody will have an argument but nobody feels a...

Douglas Adams

Okay, you won our shitty little argument. Pass the world.

Cartoonist's Book Camp

Victory settles a lot of arguments in most men's heads.

The Fires of Heaven

Wikipedia [...] is the product not of collectivism but of unending argumentation.

Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations

You take the words in the sense which is most damaging to the argument.

The Republic

It’s easier to win an argument over a dinner you’re paying for.

This Book Has No Title

I think any List of Best X creates arguments and people saying 'You listed that rubbish?' That's what lists like this are for.

Scott Westerfeld