Behind every argument is someone's ignorance.
~By Robert Benchley ~
The difficult part in an argument is not to defend one's opinion but rather to know it.
~By Andre Maurois ~
A major source of objection to a free economy is precisely that group thinks they ought to want. Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.
~By Milton Friedman ~
The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.
~By Joseph Joubert ~
I think that the leaf of a tree, the meanest insect on which we trample, are in themselves arguments more conclusive than any which can be adduced that some vast intellect animates Infinity.
~By Percy Bysshe Shelley ~
Frank was the BOSS and was not open to anything that was not from his head. There were no arguments about music because if you did, he would show you where the door was. Period.
~By Jimmy Carl Black ~
The argument of the strongest is always the best.
~By Jean de La Fontaine ~
The argument on the other side of special rights is completely bogus. It's bogus because you could make exactly the same claim about racial or ethnic or religious minorities.
~By Tom Allen ~
The long term versus the short term argument is one used by losers.
~By Lord Acton ~
Ridicule is the first and last argument of a fool.
~By Charles Simmons ~
There is no good in arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat.
~By James Russell Lowell ~
Parents should conduct their arguments in quiet, respectful tones, but in a foreign language. You'd be surprised what an inducement that is to the education of children.
~By Judith Martin ~
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.
~By John Bright ~
I mean the only thing that is hopefully good about us is after the arguments we can actually still face each other the next day or the day after and talk about something else and sort of get over it.
~By John Deacon ~
No matter what side of the argument you are on, you always find people on your side that you wish were on the other.
~By Thomas Berger ~
Men have defined the parameters of every subject. All feminist arguments, however radical in intent or consequence, are with or against assertions or premises implicit in the male system, which is made credible or authentic by the power of men to name.
~By Andrea Dworkin ~
But, you know, there's still an argument, there's still ten states that outlaw premarital sex, and many more states where adultery is still outlawed and a crime.
~By Liam Neeson ~
If you can't answer a man's arguments, all is not lost; you can still call him vile names.
~By Elbert Hubbard ~
The argument for intelligent design basically depends on saying, 'You haven't answered every question with evolution,'... Well, guess what? Science can't answer every question.
~By Kenneth Miller ~
Facts are God's arguments; we should be careful never to misunderstand or pervert them.
~By Tryon Edwards ~
I do remember the whole thing as being very argumentative, hot blooded... a permanent state of friction between Jon and Chris, Chris and me, me and Jon.
~By Bill Bruford ~
The strongest arguments prove nothing so long as the conclusions are not verified by experience. Experimental science is the queen of sciences and the goal of all speculation.
~By Roger Bacon ~
We are told that the possession of nuclear weapons - in some cases even the testing of these weapons - is essential for national security. But this argument can be made by other countries as well.
~By Joseph Rotblat ~
As set forth by theologians, the idea of 'God' is an argument that assumes its own conclusions, and proves nothing.
~By Johann Most ~
John Foster Dulles had called on me in his capacity as Secretary of State, and he had exhausted every argument to persuade me to place Cambodia under the protection of the South East Asia Treaty Organization.
~By Norodom Sihanouk ~
Still, the film nearly didn't happen a number of times. There were great arguments with United Artists about how to reduce the cost because they were nothing if not conscious of the price of the film.
~By John Schlesinger ~
Given the difficulty of resisting such temptations over the longer run, a proper concern for the welfare of congressional souls may well be the ultimate argument in favor of term limitations.
~By James L. Buckley ~
That God cannot lie, is no advantage to your argument, because it is no proof that priests can not, or that the Bible does not.
~By Thomas Paine ~
Marriage is a series of desperate arguments people feel passionately about.
~By Katharine Hepburn ~
Nothing requires a greater effort of thought than arguments to justify the rule of non-thought.
~By Milan Kundera ~
I now add, farther, that the apostle's argument is so far from proving it to be the duty of people to obey, and submit to, such rulers as act in contradiction to the public good, and so to the design of their office, that it proves the direct contrary.
~By Jonathan Mayhew ~
Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.
~By Albert Camus ~
I don't write about certain arguments I have with my wife. I'd get my head torn off if wrote about certain things.
~By Harvey Pekar ~
Never argue at the dinner table, for the one who is not hungry always gets the best of the argument.
~By Voltaire ~
The other night I ate at a real nice family restaurant. Every table had an argument going.
~By George Carlin ~
Be able to analyze statistics, which can be used to support or undercut almost any argument.
~By Marilyn vos Savant ~
There would always be a vote. There were always conflicts and arguments for years and years - that's why we're not together anymore. But there was always a vote. It was always two out of three.
~By David Zucker ~
I don't accept the argument of people like David Horowitz that the government should impose some sort of predetermined political balance on academic research.
~By Juan Cole ~
There can be no argument about the Lone Star State's significant contributions to American history, and we must remember the actions and the sacrifices of those who made Texas independence a reality.
~By Michael McCaul ~
I'd be perfectly happy never to have to answer anything again about how I work with Ethan, or whether we have arguments, or... you know what I mean? I've been answering those questions for 20 years. I suppose it's interesting to people.
~By Joel Coen ~
There's always that argument to make - that you're in better company historically if people don't understand what you're doing.
~By Elliott Smith ~
Could I interrupt here, because there is an alternative explanation, which you are particularly well placed to examine. You know the argument that it is the alchemists in the laboratories who invent the sweet new kits.
~By E. P. Thompson ~
Neither irony or sarcasm is argument.
~By Samuel Butler ~
A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this - that offences against Charity are about the only ones which men on their death-beds can be made - not to understand - but to feel - as crime.
~By Edgar Allan Poe ~
My father had kicked me out of his house at the height of an argument over an opinion difference. He had become so enraged. He told me never to come back, and that was all the severance it took.
~By Lynette Fromme ~
There have been no sects in the Christian world, however absurd, which have not endeavoured to support their opinions by arguments drawn from Scripture.
~By Laurence Sterne ~
Admitting, however, for the sake of argument, that I am prime and sole minister in this country, am I, therefore, prime and sole minister of all Europe? Am I answerable for the conduct of other countries as well as for that of my own?
~By Robert Walpole ~
Capital punishment is the source of many an argument, both good and bad.
~By Marilyn vos Savant ~
A lot of good arguments are spoiled by some fool who knows what he is talking about.
~By Miguel de Unamuno ~
No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal.
~By Marilyn Ferguson ~
The power I exert on the court depends on the power of my arguments, not on my gender.
~By Sandra Day O'Connor ~
You never need an argument against the use of violence, you need an argument for it.
~By Noam Chomsky ~
As for the assertion that nuclear weapons prevent wars, how many more wars are needed to refute this arguments? Tens of millions have died in the many wars that have taken place since 1945.
~By Joseph Rotblat ~
Every argument on lynching in the South gets back sooner or later to the question of rape.
~By Ray Stannard Baker ~
Lincoln had no such person that he could talk with. Often, as a result, he debated with himself, and he would draw up a kind of list of the pros and cons of an argument, and carefully figure them out, and he might test them in public.
~By David Herbert Donald ~
Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience.
~By Rebecca West ~
Part of the reason that our politics seems so tough right now and facts and science and argument does not seem to be winning the day all the time is because we're hardwired not to always think clearly when we're scared.
~By Barack Obama ~
The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it.
~By Dale Carnegie ~
I wish the government and the Minister of Justice would address these legal and constitutional arguments, but they refuse to. They want Canadians to go blindly into their brave new world, but it is not wise for a society to move blindly in any direction.
~By Stockwell Day ~
A half truth, like half a brick, is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carries better.
~By Stephen Leacock ~
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.
~By William E. Gladstone ~
But black people fall for that same argument, and they go around talking about law breakers. We did not make the laws in this country. We are neither morally nor legally confined to those laws. Those laws that keep them up, keep us down.
~By H. Rap Brown ~
If you desire to be pure, have firm faith, and slowly go on with your devotional practices without wasting your energy in useless scriptural discussions and arguments. Your little brain will otherwise be muddled.
~By Ramakrishna ~
Even in the beginning, when we knew there was a legal argument about how much our song sounds like his song, as one songwriter to another, I wasn't sure that Cat Stevens would take that as bad.
~By Wayne Coyne ~
Men's arguments often prove nothing but their wishes.
~By Charles Caleb Colton ~
The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it.
~By Friedrich Nietzsche ~
I'm not going to get in to an argument with anyone about the relative merits of Judaism and Christianity, and what it means for a Jewish kid to be a Christian - I'm just not interested in that argument.
~By T-Bone Burnett ~
Myself when young did eagerly frequent doctor and saint, and heard great argument about it and about: but evermore came out by the same door as in I went.
~By Omar Khayyam ~
When I'm alone, I can sleep crossways in bed without an argument.
~By Zsa Zsa Gabor ~
There is not a single extant study that supports all the arguments against men being with their children. It's absolute bollocks.
~By Bob Geldof ~
Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory.
~By Leonardo da Vinci ~
It was an argument of rare power and eloquence.
~By William Henry Moody ~
Arguments are to be avoided: they are always vulgar and often convincing.
~By Oscar Wilde ~
My life is my argument.
~By Albert Schweitzer ~
All the arguments to prove man's superiority cannot shatter this hard fact: in suffering the animals are our equals.
~By Peter Singer ~
Before impugning an opponent's motives, even when they legitimately may be impugned, answer his arguments.
~By Sidney Hook ~
George W. Bush bought the election - period. End of story. There is no argument. You can try to come up with any argument you can, but there is none.
~By Gary Coleman ~
There are clear cases in which "understanding" literally applies and clear cases in which it does not apply; and these two sorts of cases are all I need for this argument.
~By John Searle ~
When you let someone else win an argument, often you both end up winners.
~By Richard Carlson ~
Evolution has long been the target of illogical arguments that use presumption.
~By Marilyn vos Savant ~
I think it's always dangerous to make political arguments in a religiously ideological way. And it's very dangerous to treat as traitors to the American nation those who think differently.
~By Adam Michnik ~
Most of the arguments to which I am party fall somewhat short of being impressive, owing to the fact that neither I nor my opponent knows what we are talking about.
~By Robert Benchley ~
Argument is to me the air I breathe. Given any proposition, I cannot help believing the other side and defending it.
~By Gertrude Stein ~
Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions.
~By Booth Tarkington ~
If you feel yourself to be above the mass, speak so as to raise the mass to the height of your argument.
~By George Henry Lewes ~
Similes prove nothing, but yet greatly lighten and relieve the tedium of argument.
~By Robert South ~
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.
~By Freddy Fender ~
With reasonable men, I will reason; with humane men I will plead; but to tyrants I will give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost.
~By William Lloyd Garrison ~
Do not let arguments of expediency persuade you. That is the slow road to oblivion. That is the tortured path to undoing step by step, bit by bit, as the river creates a canyon, the way of life that we love.
~By Charles Schumer ~
When every one of your arguments is characterized an attempt to bring back slavery or resegregate lunch counters, it's a little hard to have any sort of productive debate.
~By Ann Coulter ~
Lutherans, whose arguments and mistakes will not be difficult to contest or discover, do not want to attribute any value to works, and they do not understand enough the scope of the justification.
~By Michael Servetus ~
If he who employs coercion against me could mould me to his purposes by argument, no doubt he would. He pretends to punish me because his argument is strong; but he really punishes me because his argument is weak.
~By William Godwin ~
Is it possible to covet a much longer life for one's self and be as devoted to the well-being of the next generation? It's a long argument.
~By Leon Kass ~
So if you're on tour for eight months, a year... or whatever it is you definitely don't want arguments and I'm happy to say that I've always had a really nice bunch of people around me all the time.
~By Joan Armatrading ~
The scientific argument advanced for intelligent design at the Dover trial, those arguments collapsed, scientifically and intellectually.
~By Kenneth Miller ~
I later spent... five to eight months in hospitals in New Jersey, always on an involuntary basis, and always attempting a legal argument for release.
~By John Forbes Nash, Jr. ~
Liberty is a great celestial Goddess, strong, beneficent, and austere, and she can never descend upon a nation by the shouting of crowds, nor by arguments of unbridled passion, nor by the hatred of class against class.
~By Annie Besant ~
My wife Mary and I have been married for forty-seven years and not once have we had an argument serious enough to consider divorce; murder, yes, but divorce, never.
~By Jack Benny ~
Truth springs from argument amongst friends.
~By David Hume ~
The argument has been made in Congress that it is slippery slope if you allow therapeutic, what people people are calling therapeutic cloning, then you will get reproductive cloning.
~By David Baltimore ~
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