Argument Quotes

If you go in for argument, take care of your temper. Your logic, if you have any, will take care of itself. Joseph Farrell Quotes No matter what side of the argument you are on, you always find people on your side that you wish were on the other. Jascha Heifetz Quotes The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion. G. K. Chesterton Quotes The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments. Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes Use soft words and hard arguments. English Proverb Quotes I can win an argument on any topic, against any opponent. People know this, and steer clear of me at parties. Often, as a sign of their great respect, they don't even invite me. Dave Barry Quotes For they are yet ear-kissing arguments. William Shakespeare Quotes With reasonable men I will reason; with humane men I will plea; but to tyrants I will give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost. William Lloyd Garrison Quotes It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument. William G. McAdoo Quotes The argument is at an end. Saint Augustine Quotes He who strikes the first blow admits he's lost the argument. Chinese Proverb Quotes My parents only had one argument in forty-five years. It lasted forty-three years. Cathy Ladman Quotes The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence. Ayn Rand Quotes Behind every argument is someone's ignorance. Louis D. Brandeis Quotes Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute. Josh Billings Quotes Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing. Oscar Wilde Quotes In a heated argument we are apt to lose sight of the truth. Publilius Syrus Quotes It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them. Pierre Beaumarchais Quotes When an arguer argues dispassionately he thinks only of the argument. Virginia Woolf Quotes It is no dishonor to be in a minority in the cause of liberty and virtue. Sam Adams Quotes 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. Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes Fear not those who argue but those who dodge. Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach Quotes Whenever two good people argue over principles, they are both right. Marie Ebner von Eschenbach Quotes Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win. On Being a Teacher Jonathan Kozol Quotes Argument is the worst sort of conversation. Jonathan Swift Quotes Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory. Leonardo da Vinci Quotes Arguments over grammar and style are often as fierce as those over IBM versus Mac, and as fruitless as Coke versus Pepsi and boxers versus briefs. Jack Lynch Quotes One of the first things a relationship therapist learns is that couples argue to burn up energy that could be used for something else. In fact, arguments often serve the purpose of using up energy, so that the couple do not have to take the courageous, creative leap into an unknown they fear. Arguing serves the function of being a zone of familiarity into which you can retreat when you are afraid of making a creative breakthrough. Gay Hendricks Quotes Life is a quest and love a quarrel ... Edna St. Vincent Millay Quotes Truth springs from argument amongst friends. David Hume Quotes There's nothing I like less than bad arguments for a view that I hold dear. Daniel Dennett Quotes When I'm getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say -- and two-thirds thinking about him and what he is going to say. Abraham Lincoln Quotes My dear sir, they don't debate. Each of them merely issues an ultimatum, and in what a tone! It all goes to show what extraordinary people they are, each more unequivocal than the other. - "The Old Lady and the Bear" Colette Quotes Note how good you feel after you have encouraged someone else. No other argument is necessary to suggest that never miss the opportunity to give encouragement. George Burton Adams Quotes It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them. Alfred Adler Quotes After a heated argument on some trivial matter Nancy [Astor] . shouted, If I were your wife I would put poison in your coffee! Whereupon Winston [Churchill] answered, And if I were your husband I would drink it. John Fellows Akers Quotes When there is no peril in the fight, there is no glory in the triumph. A. Alvarez Quotes Jokes of the proper kind, properly told, can do more to enlighten questions of politics, philosophy, and literature than any number of dull arguments. Isaac Asimov Quotes Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one. Marcus Aelius Aurelius Quotes Israel has created a new image of the Jew in the world-the image of a working and an intellectual people, of a people that can fight with heroism. Benjamin Nnamdi Azikiwe Quotes Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation, all which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, though religion were not; but superstition dismounts all these, and erects an absolute monarchy in the minds of men...the master of superstition is the people; and arguments are fitted to practice, in a reverse order. Sir Francis Bacon Quotes So long as we have enough people in this country willing to fight for their rights, we'll be called a democracy. Roger Nash Baldwin Quotes I argue very well. Ask any of my remaining friends. I can win an argument on any topic, against any opponent. People know this, and steer clear of me at parties. Often, as a sign of their great respect, they don't even invite me. Dave Barry Quotes If we fight a war and win it with H-bombs, what history will remember is not the ideals we were fighting for but the methods we used to accomplish them. These methods will be compared to the warfare of Genghis Khan who ruthlessly killed every last inhabitant of Persia. Hans Albrecht Bethe Quotes The child gets two confusing messages when a parent tells him which is the right fork to use, and then proceeds to use the wrong one. So does the child who listens to parents bicker and fuss, yet is told to be nice to his brothers and sisters. Rachel Blanchard Quotes There are questions of real power and then there are questions of phony authority. You have to break through the phony authority to begin to fight the real questions of power. Angel Blessing Quotes We've got a generation now who were born with semiequality. They don't know how it was before, so they think, this isn't too bad. We're working. We have our attache' cases and our three piece suits. I get very disgusted with the younger generation of women. We had a torch to pass, and they are just sitting there. They don't realize it can be taken away. Things are going to have to get worse before they join in fighting the battle. Erma Louise Bombeck Quotes ... it's simply wrong to always order [kids] to stop that fighting. There are times when one child is simply defending his rights and damned well should be fighting. Erma Louise Bombeck Quotes A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights. Napolean Bonaparte Quotes A life of reaction is a life of slavery, intellectually and spiritually. One must fight for a life of action, not reaction. Rita Mae Brown Quotes Arguments are like fire-arms which a man may keep at home but should not carry about with him. Samuel Butler Quotes We shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and the oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be. We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender. Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill Quotes The fights I fought... cost a lot --the fight for the assault-weapons ban cost 20 members their seats in Congress. The NRA is the reason the Republicans control the House. William Jefferson Clinton Quotes I know of no more disagreeable situation than to be left feeling generally angry without anybody in particular to be angry at. Frank Moore Colby Quotes Men will wrangle for religion; write for it; fight for it; die for it; anything but--live for it. Charles Caleb Colton Quotes You become a champion by fighting one more round. When things are tough, you fight one more round. James Corbett Quotes A great many college graduates come here thinking of lawyers as social engineers arguing the great Constitutional issues. Archibald Cox Quotes To be nobody-but-yourself--in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else--means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting. E(dward) E(stlin) Cummings Quotes To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting. E(dward) E(stlin) Cummings Quotes Fight for your opinions, but do not believe that they contain the whole truth or the only truth. Charles Anderson Dana Quotes The man who fights for his fellow-man is a better man than the one who fights for himself. Clarence Darrow Quotes The assumed instinctive belief in God has been used by many persons as an argument for His existence. But this is a rash argument, as we should thus be compelled to believe in the existence of cruel and malignant spirits, only a little more powerful than man; for the belief in them is far more general than in a beneficent Diety. Charles Darwin Quotes I have no country to fight for; my country is the earth, and I am a citizen of the world. Eugene Debs Quotes In communities where men build ships for their own sons to fish or fight from, quality is never a problem. J. Deville Quotes There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever. Thomas Alva Edison Quotes I don't know how man will fight World War III, but I do know how they will fight World War IV; with sticks and stones. Albert Einstein Quotes What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight-it's the size of the fight in the dog. Dwight David Eisenhower Quotes Chance fights ever on the side of the prudent. Euripides Quotes Nothing is as frustrating as arguing with someone who knows what he's talking about. Sam Ewing Quotes 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. Marilyn Ferguson Quotes Let the other guy have whatever he wants before the fight. Once the bell rings he's gonna be disappointed anyway. George Foreman Quotes It is very important to make sure the person you're marrying is like minded. It's crucial for a couple to have shared goals and values. The more you have in common the less you have to argue about. Barbara Friedman Quotes The common dogma [of fundamentalists] is fear of modern knowledge, inability to cope with the fast change in a scientific-technological society, and the real breakdown in apparent moral order in recent years.... That is why hate is the major fuel, fear is the cement of the movement, and superstitious ignorance is the best defence against the dangerous new knowledge. ... When you bring up arguments that cast serious doubts on their cherished beliefs you are not simply making a rhetorical point, you are threatening their whole Universe and their immortality. That provokes anger and quite frequently violence. ... Unfortunately you cannot reason with them and you even risk violence in confronting them. Their numbers will decline only when society stabilizes, and adapts to modernity. G Gaia Quotes 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. William Lloyd Garrison Quotes I never make the mistake of arguing with people for whose opinions I have no respect. Edward Gibbon Quotes It is better to discuss things, to argue and engage in polemics than make perfidious plans of mutual destruction. Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev Quotes Silence is argument carried out by other means. Ernesto Quotes If a sufficient number of people who wanted to stop war really did gather together, they would first of all begin by making war upon those who disagreed with them. And it is still more certain that they would make war on people who also want to stop wars but in another way. Gurdjieff Quotes I scrambled to the top of the precipice where Nick was waiting. 'That was fun,' I said. 'You bet it was,' said Nick. 'Let's climb higher.' 'No,' I said. 'I think we should be heading back now.' 'We have time,' Nick insisted. I said we didn't, and Nick said we did. We argued back and forth like that for about 20 minutes, then finally decided to head back. I didn't say it was an interesting story. Jack Handey [Deep Thoughts] Quotes If you were a gladiator in olden days, I bet the inefficiency of how the gladiator fights were organized and scheduled would just drive you up a wall. Jack Handey [Deep Thoughts] Quotes A funny thing is if you're out hiking and your friend gets bit by a poisonous snake, tell him you're going for help, then go about ten feet and pretend YOU got bit by a snake. Then start an argument about who's going to get help. A lot of guys will start crying. That's why it makes you feel good when you tell them it was just a joke. Jack Handey [Deep Thoughts] Quotes I bet when they weren't fighting, Vikings with horn helmets had to stick potatoes on the ends of the horns, so as to avoid eye pokings to fellow Vikings and lady Vikings. Jack Handey [Deep Thoughts] Quotes It makes me mad when people say I turned and ran like a scared rabbit. Maybe it was like an angry rabbit, who was going to fight in another fight, away from the first fight. Jack Handey [Deep Thoughts] Quotes When you plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don't blame the lettuce. You look for reasons it is not doing well. It may need fertilizer, or more water, or less sun. You never blame the lettuce. Yet if we have problems with our friends or our family, we blame the other person. But if we know how to take care of them, they will grow well, like the lettuce. Blaming has no positive effect at all, nor does trying to persuade using reason and argument. That is my experience. If you understand, and you show that you understand, you can love, and the situation will change. Thich Nhat Hanh Quotes War will cease when men refuse to fight. F. Hansen Quotes Auto racing, bull fighting, and mountain climbing are the only real sports. . . all others are games. Ernest Miller Hemingway Quotes 'The world is a fine place and worth fighting for.' I agree with the second part. Ernest Miller Hemingway Quotes The sounder your argument, the more satisfaction you get out of it. Edgar Watson Howe Quotes A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run. Elbert Hubbard Quotes I do not mean to suggest that our handsome, newly enlarged library is to be a headquarters of busy bookworms, old and young, routinely absorbing knowledge by the hour while birds sing outside and the Mets fight it out for last place in the National League. On the contrary, a good library is a joyful place where the imagination roams free, and life is actively enriched. John K. Hutchens Quotes Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. . . . It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more. Lido Anthony Quotes Never [enter] into dispute or argument with another. I never yet saw an instance of one of two disputants convincing the other by argument. I have seen many on their getting warm, becoming rude and shooting one another. Thomas Jefferson Quotes A rioter with a Molotov cocktail in his hands is not fighting for civil rights any more than a Klansman with a sheet on his back and mask on his face. They are both more or less what the law declares them: lawbreakers, destroyers of constitutional rights and liberties and ultimately destroyers of a free America. Lyndon Baines Johnson Quotes I knew from the start if I left a woman I really loved -- the Great Society -- in order to fight that bitch of a war [in Vietnam] … then I would lose everything at home. My hopes … my dreams. Lyndon Baines Johnson Quotes I have not yet begun to fight! John Paul Jones Quotes Hear me, my chiefs! I am tired. My heart is sick and sad. From where the sun now stands, I will fight no more forever. Chief Joseph Quotes It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it. Joseph Joubert Quotes The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress. Joseph Joubert Quotes I've put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for centuries arguing over what I meant, and that's the only way of insuring one's mortality. James Joyce Quotes In the fight between you and the world, back the world. Franz Kafka Quotes Make sure you never, never argue at night. You just lose a good night's sleep, and you can't settle anything until morning anyway. Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Quotes 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. Omar Khayyám Quotes Yes, we are all different. Different customs, different foods, different mannerisms, different languages, but not so different that we cannot get along with one another. If we will disagree without being disagreeable. J. Martin Kohe Quotes If you must choose between two paths, either of which will bring death and defeat, then choose the path wherein you die fighting for honor and justice. Pan Ku Quotes When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you. Irving Layton Quotes Disclaimer: If anyone disagrees with anything I say, I am quite prepared to not only retract it, but also to deny under oath I ever said it. T. Lehrer Quotes Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing. Michel Leiris Quotes There's no point in arguing with partisan supporters. Their views are their identity. Nothing you can tell the most phlegmatic follower. Michael Lews Quotes Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tired on him personally. Abraham Lincoln Quotes Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing. John Locke Quotes There is no good in arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat. James Russel Lowell Quotes Men make the mistake of thinking that because women can't see the sense in violence, they must be passive creatures. It's just not true. In one important way, at least, men are the passive sex. Given a choice, they will always opt for the status quo. They hate change of any kind, and they fight against it constantly. On the other hand, what women want is stability, which when you stop to think about it is a very different animal. Eric Lustbader Quotes A preacher must be both soldier and shepherd. He must nourish, defend, and teach; he must have teeth in his mouth, and be able to bite and fight. Martin Luther Quotes I would rather fight with my hands than my tongue. Dolly Payne Todd Madison Quotes During the Depression, or back when we were fighting Hitler, people didn't have time to sue a company if the coffee was too hot. There were urgent, pressing problems. If you think you have it tough, read history books. Bill Maher Quotes It's [the Brady Act] taking manpower and crime-fighting capability off the streets. Dennis Martin Quotes The difficult part in an argument is not to defend one's opinion, but rather to know it. André Maurois Quotes The Egyptians could run to Egypt, the Syrians into Syria. The only place we could run was into the sea, and before we did that we might as well fight. Golda Meir Quotes Your friends praise your abilities to the skies, submit to you in argument, and seem to have the greatest deference for you; but, though they may ask it, you never find them following your advice upon their own affairs; nor allowing you to manage your own, without thinking that you should follow theirs. Thus, in fact, they all think themselves wiser than you, whatever they may say. Lord Melbourne Quotes If we can not trust a freeman with his right to keep and bear arms, then how can we trust him with the right to vote. Surely the right of a freeman to vote has a much greater effect on our collective lives than does any individual's firearm. If one argues that the effect of any one freeman's vote is minimal, then why allow it in the first place? To be armed is to secure one's right to representation. Thomas Mincher Quotes The people to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagree with you and are too cowardly to let you know. Joe Moore Quotes After last night's debate, the reputation of Messieurs Lincoln and Douglas is secure. Edward R(oscoe) Murrow Quotes Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And when you look into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you. Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche Quotes The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it. Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche Quotes I wish I could give you a lot of advice, based on my experience of winning political debates. But I don't have that experience. My only experience is at losing them. Richard Milhouse Nixon Quotes There is a time to be timid. There is a time to be conciliatory. There is a time, even, to fly and there is a time to fight. And I'm going to fight like hell." (On Congressional moves toward impeachment) Richard Milhouse Nixon Quotes A man never tells you anything until you contradict him. George Bernard Shaw Quotes