Argument Quotes - Page 12

The arguments for purity of life fail of their due influence, not because they have been considered and confuted, but because they have been passed over without consideration.

Writers have an opinion about the world and offer arguments about the world. They should offer contemplation.

Unfortunately, the problem of the free speech argument is that you have to defend people you can't stand.

The argument is at an end.

A crucial contribution to the ideological argument ...it provides a vital part of the intellectual manifesto on which the battle for a better society can be fought

In comedy laughter settles all arguments.

Respect for the dignity of others includes treating them as rational creatures capable of being persuadad by rational argument, even in the face of frequent evidence to the contrary.

Barring a theoretical resolution, which I think is unlikely, you either have to say there are zillions of parallel universes out there that we can't observe at present or you have to say there was a plan. I actually find the argument of the existence of a God who did the planning more compelling than the bubbling of all these multiverses.

Just because science so far has failed to explain something, such as consciousness, to say it follows that the facile, pathetic explanations which religion has produced somehow by default must win the argument is really quite ridiculous.

For it is not metres, but a metre-making argument that makes a poem.

If I know your sect, I anticipate your argument

I really do not know, Socrates, how to express what I mean. For somehow or other our arguments, on whatever ground we rest them, seem to turn round and walk away from us.

Every sermon must have a solid rest in Scripture, and the pointedness which comes of a clear subject, and the conviction which belongs to well-thought argument, and the warmth that proceeds from earnest appeal.

The world was won for Christ not by arguments but by sanctity: "What you are speaks so loud, I can hardly hear what you say."

I told Kate I didn't love her in an argument. But I do! Those heated moments are the worst, because that's when you can do the most damage. And they're bad, because you always hit them in the spot where you know it hurts.

Reasonable argument is impossible when authority becomes the arbiter.

In arguing one should meet serious pleading with humor, and humor with serious pleading.

I find you want me to furnish you with argument and intellects too. No, sir, these, I protest you, are too hard for me.

In reasoning upon moral subjects, we have great occasion for candor, in order to compare circumstances, and weigh arguments with impartiality.

A master salesman is one who takes the offensive and never the defensive sale of an argument, if argument arises.

Most people go through their whole lives without killing anybody. False argument.

For the sake of argument I'll ignore all your fighting words.

My pappy told me never to bet my bladder against a brewery or get into an argument with people who buy ink by the barrel.

The ethical argument regarding abortion hinges on the question of when life begins. Some believe life begins at forty.

If the central contest of the twentieth century has pitted capitalism against socialism, then F. A. Hayek has been its central figure. He helped us to understand why capitalism won by a knockout. It was Hayek who elaborated the basic argument demonstrating that central planning was nothing else but an impoverishing fantasy.