Argument Quotes
Hannah Arendt (2009). “Responsibility and Judgment”, p.36, Schocken
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
All logical arguments can be defeated by the simple refusal to reason logically
Steven Weinberg (1992). “Dreams of a Final Theory”, Pantheon
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
When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.
Irving Layton (1969). “The whole bloody bird: obs, aphs & pomes”
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
Thomas Hobbes, Richard Tuck (1996). “Hobbes: Leviathan: Revised Student Edition”, p.184, Cambridge University Press