Arguing Quotes - Page 4

Ownership of thought depends on the thinker not subordinating himself to a 'ruling thought'. This is particularly difficult, argues Stirner, ... for language itself is a network of 'fixed ideas'. Truths emerge only when language is reworked and possessed individually.

There is no need to argue if an experiment can be made.

Mass communication communicates massively: its language lacks precise articulation and avoids demanding terms; it argues for the kind of behavior in life which will make a "good program": ethic equals showbiz.

It's such a foolish thing to argue about names, when what we're doing is all one thing.

If there's ever a place where you can't argue that you can put the facts over here and the text over there and see if they fit, it is surely in anthropology

I would argue that a majority of the horrors we face would not have happened if the accounting profession developed and enforced better accounting.

We need to stop arguing about Christ and start living like Christ.

Maurice watched them argue again. Humans, eh? Think they're lords of creation. Not like us cats. We know we are. Ever see a cat feed a human? Case proven.

One cannot really argue with a mathematical theorem.

What I would argue in my defence is that shows like Britain's Got Talent and The X Factor have actually got people more interested in music again and are sending more people into record stores.

It's easy to direct while acting - there's one less person to argue with.

Beyond Bookchin”, David Watson, of Fifth Estate, argues that aboriginal society represents a viable Utopia. He quotes favourably the anthropologist Marshall Sahlins; “We are inclined to think of hunters and gatherers as poor because they don’t have anything, perhaps better to think of them for that reason as free.

But then again, those who argue against squatting and deadlifting on the same day may just be pussies.

With whom do you argue? With a woman, of course. Not with a friend, because he accepted all your defects the moment he found you. Besides, woman is mother-have we forgotten?

Too often we argue about Christianity instead of marveling at Jesus.

You can't argue with stupidity.

It is generally the man who is not ready to argue, who is ready to sneer.

The art of arguing is the art of living. We argue because we must, because life emends it, because, in the end, life itself is but an argument.

When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.

Men substitute words for reality and then argue about the words.

Mental effort, I would argue, is relatively rare. Most of the time we coast.

So much perfection argues rottenness somewhere.

There is no arguing with the pretenders to a divine knowledge and to a divine mission. They are possessed with the sin of pride, they have yielded to the perennial temptation.

I consider myself sort of like a pseudo lawyer. Like, I'm convinced I can solve every case and argue my way.

[Carly Fiorina] can argue it all she wants, but I don't believe that.