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Argument Quotes

At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.

What to the Slave is the 4th of July?, delivered 4 July 1852

Oratory is the power of beating down your adversary's arguments and putting better in their place.

Samuel Johnson (1798). “Dr. Johnson's Table Talk: Containing Aphorisms on Literature, Life, and Manners; with Anecdotes of Distinguished Persons, Selected and Arranged from Dr. Boswell's Life of Johnson”, p.24

The cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas.

Carl Sagan (2011). “The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark”, p.429, Ballantine Books

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

Aristotle, Terence Irwin (1996). “Aristotle: Introductory Readings”, p.283, Hackett Publishing

An argument is always about what has been made more important than the relationship.

Hugh Prather (2009). “Notes to Myself: My Struggle to Become a Person”, p.138, Bantam

Silence is sometimes an argument of Consent.

Thomas Hobbes, Richard Tuck (1996). “Hobbes: Leviathan: Revised Student Edition”, p.184, Cambridge University Press