Argument Quotations

Any fact is better established by two or three good testimonies than by a thousand arguments.

I'm a politician. I'm not going to get into a whole range of scientific argument with scientists

I've had a few arguments with people, but I never carry a grudge. You know why? While you're carrying a grudge, they're out dancing.

There's a good argument to be made that companies that are private, where they're run by partnerships, where everybody has true stake in them and they're not playing with other people's money, that by default it's a safer system, because you really have skin in the game. You really own the company.

Insults are the arguments employed by those who are in the wrong.

In these troubled times we live in, we should remain vigilant and see through populist 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.

The best way to win an argument is to begin by being right.

I do insist on making what I hope is sense so there's always a coherent narrative or argument that the reader can follow.

This is the heart of my argument: We can put more pressure on the antagonist for whom we show human concern.

Workplace relations is about getting the best out of people. An argument which says that the only way we can compete with other nations in the world is engaging in a race to the bottom in terms of pay rates, penalty rates, protections on rosters, getting rid of family friendly provisions - that is not Australia's future.

It's seldom that you find great moments in television. Usually you remember - in 'Breaking Bad' or any of these other great shows - you remember situations or characters. Not moments. But I have to say, I can make the same argument for mainstream movies, which have bad narratives and also no memorable moments.

Supreme Court arguments and decisions are fascinating to a few of us and really pretty boring to most.

We sometimes hear the argument, 'All the world' thinks this, or does that, given as a reason for our doing likewise; but that is an argument that should have no weight with the Christian, who is commanded not to be conformed to the world.

Most umpires are good about letting the argument go, but you can only go on for so long, or go so far. If you don't leave it alone after a minute or two, you're in trouble. They want to keep the game moving, so they've got to throw you out. I had trouble leaving it alone, I guess.

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.

When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.

If you are ignorant, you certainly can get into some interesting arguments.

Never preach a sermon without a text from the Bible, a text containing the theme which you can elaborate. The text is the best proof in support of your argument. A sermon without a text is an argument without a proof.

There's always that argument to make - that you're in better company historically if people don't understand what you're doing.

A novel should be an experience and convey an emotional truth rather than arguments.

The best argument for mutual funds is that they offer safety and diversification. But they don't necessarily offer safety and diversification.

A real pleasure is a pleasure that one enjoys by one's self, without a companion, and without a single argument.

When we think about global warming at all, the arguments tend to be ideological, theological and economic.

Measles is probably the best argument for why there needs to be global health, and why we have to think about it as a global public good. Because in a sense, measles is the canary in the coal mine for immunization. It is, you know, highly transmissible. The vaccine costs 15 cents, so it's not - you know, shouldn't be an issue in terms of cost.

I became the stage for the great argument between Nietzsche and Rousseau. I was the extra ready to take on all the roles.

The conservative argument is that the economy is like the weather, that it just operates automatically.

I passionately believe that's it's not just what you say that counts, it's also how you say it - that the success of your argument critically depends on your manner of presenting it.

Never argue at the dinner table, for the one who is not hungry always gets the best of the argument.

A day without an argument is like an egg without salt.

One could drive a prairie schooner through any part of his argument and never scrape against a fact.

When a thing is true, there is no need to use any arguments to substantiate it.

In one sense I feel that my book is a one-woman argument against determinism.

To this day, the only argument against Obama that critics can seem to come up with involves admitting he's better than them - though they certainly season it with some racism. You know, he's that lucky black man who actually appeals to the populace. He's that elitist who got himself off food stamps and into Harvard.

A moral argument about whether censorship is good or bad deteriorates quickly into accusations about who is more or less patriotic, moral, pious, and so on.

They forbade me from flying, despite all my protests and arguments. After being once in space, I was desperately keen to go back there. But it didn't happen.

In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.

The Jews integrated themselves into American life to the point that the argument that the Jews aren't American sounded so stupid, that people stopped thinking it.

I have an amazing relationship with my wife, but sometimes there are arguments. It happens.

Liberals are sometimes defined as people who can't take their own side in an argument.

It was a mistake. On the information we had, we shouldn't have prosecuted the war. We shouldn't have changed our argument from international law to regime change in a non-transparent way. It was an error for which we as a country paid a heavy price, and for which many people paid with their lives.

I can't imagine an argument that says that raising marginal tax rates on high income people, many of whom are business owners, is a recipe for economic growth.

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.

It's very hard to make arguments about the effects of cloning on family relations if family relations are in tatters.

Every argument on lynching in the South gets back sooner or later to the question of rape.

I grew up in a family that despised displays of strong emotion, rage in particular. We stewed. We sulked. When arguments did occur, they were full-scale conniptions, and we regarded them as family failings.

It is not who is right, but what is right, that is of importance.

That's what we're missing. We're missing argument. We're missing debate. We're missing colloquy. We're missing all sorts of things. Instead, we're accepting.

If you have high IQ, you're really good at finding post-hoc arguments to support your feelings of truthiness.

Similes prove nothing, but yet greatly lighten and relieve the tedium of argument.

Men's arguments often prove nothing but their wishes.

First of all, you can make the argument that there's no such thing as the past. Nobody lived in the past.

If you feel yourself to be above the mass, speak so as to raise the mass to the height of your argument.

Since the break-up of the 1990s, Russia has not had winter sports facilities. All the winter sport venues were effectively located in countries that are no longer part of the federation. There is a strong argument for saying Sochi's legacy will be this country will have winter sports facilities it did not have before.

Arguments about Scripture achieve nothing but a stomachache and a headache.

One of the beautiful things about men is that they're very in the moment. That's why they don't want to have an argument about what happened six months ago.

But curb thou the high spirit in thy breast, for gentle ways are best, and keep aloof from sharp contentions.

My argument is that War makes rattling good history; but Peace is poor reading.

The difficult part in an argument is not to defend one's opinion but rather to know it.

The difference between men and women seems to be this: I can argue with my promoter downstairs, accuse him of ripping me off, and 20 minutes later we'll be playing golf together. With a lady, the same argument can go on for, like, years.

The moment that one person in an argument claims to be God, dialogue and debate become impossible.

We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.

No one suggested Lehman deserved to be saved. But the argument has been made that the crisis might have been less severe if it had been saved, because Lehman's failure created remarkable uncertainty in the market as investors became confused about the role of the government and whether it was picking winners and losers.

Of course poets have morals and manners of their own, and custom is no argument with them.

There's nothing I like less than bad arguments for a view that I hold dear.

There's a popular saying that the Internet interprets censorship as damage and routes around it. Desire and innovation will trump policy, the argument goes, as clever programmers circumvent controls.

Any time three New Yorkers get into a cab without an argument, a bank has just been robbed.

I think Chinese leadership is trying to tell the world they have another set of logic or reasoning or values which are different from yours. Of course, I don't think they believe that. It's just an argument that's made when you can't confront the truth and facts. They really want to maintain power.

Nothing requires a greater effort of thought than arguments to justify the rule of non-thought.

The argument of the strongest is always the best.

The usefulness of religion - the fact that it gives life meaning, that it makes people feel good - is not an argument for the truth of any religious doctrine. It's not an argument that it's reasonable to believe that Jesus really was born of a virgin or that the Bible is the perfect word of the creator of the universe.

Marriage is a series of desperate arguments people feel passionately about.

Capital punishment is the source of many an argument, both good and bad.

Constitutional arguments that seem as dry as dust can have momentous consequences.

I don't believe it. Prove it to me and I still won't believe it.

Even if I was a bad right wing guy, to the extent of whether my arguments are right or wrong, they're right or wrong independently if I'm right or left.

It's difficult to love someone you don't respect, which is hard to remember when you're having an argument.

The argument that gay marriage doesn't affect straight marriages is a ridiculous red herring: Gay marriage affects society and law in dramatic ways. Religious groups will come under direct assault as federal and state governments move to strip them of their non-profit statuses if they refuse to perform gay marriages.

A knock-down argument; 'tis but a word and a blow.

In argument similes are like songs in love; they describe much, but prove nothing.

The sounder your argument, the more satisfaction you get out of it.

My argument is not that I shouldn't have been punished, but that the punishment didn't fit the crime.

A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments.

Insolence is not logic; epithets are the arguments of malice.

What is faith? If you believe something because you have evidence for it, or rational argument, that is not faith. So faith seems to be believing something despite the absence of evidence or rational argument for it.

Weakness on both sides is, as we know, the motto of all quarrels.

Most religious people in America fully embrace science. So the argument that religion has some issue with science applies to a small fraction of those who declare that they are religious. They just happen to be a very vocal fraction, so you got the impression that there are more of them than there actually is.

One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed.

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. And the country's scared.

We are not won by arguments that we can analyse but by tone and temper, by the manner which is the man himself.

The secular argument, or the liberal argument, is to as much as possible remove taboos so things do not become unmentionable; to let some air into the discussion.

In a false quarrel there is no true valor.

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.

All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently to be a great evil.

The argument that resistance to the war should remain strictly nonviolent seems to me overwhelming.

The only argument I keep hearing is you don't have the dollars to expand. Well, I'm addressing that. We are looking for a public-private partnership, but we are not looking to give up control.

The Peripheral Canal automatically throws you into a heated argument that doesn't solve the problem.

The people who have a bias in favor of the argument that humans are making the globe warmer will push any data that suggests humans are making hurricanes worse, but it just isn't so. These are natural cycles.

We are at a difficult time, but I believe that by the process of argument we should be able to get to a point where we can get a second resolution,

There are certain players who I think haven't progressed, and we need those players to grow. Put on top of that that we have a slew of young players coming into this thing, and I think Dave just wanted to make the decision to get the best person we can to help these guys continue to develop and evolve. Some can make the argument we didn't do that this year.