Argument Quotes - Page 3

It is a seldom proffered argument as to the advantages of a free press that it has a major function in keeping the government itself informed as to what the government is doing.

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

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

I feel as if dystopian and utopian representations are historically the most effective way of criticizing modern society. You know, because you don't have to be factually accurate. You can kind of construct some awesome strawman arguments in your fictional world.

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.

Give no answer to contentious arguments or irresponsible accusations. Let such things "fly out open windows" until they spend themselves.

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

It is one thing to persuade, another to command; one thing to press with arguments, another with penalties.

I never allow myself to have an opinion on anything that I don't know the other side's argument better than they do.

The plea of necessity, that eternal argument of all conspirators.

Addressing the conclusions of The God Delusion point by point with the devastating insight of a molecular biologist turned theologian, Alister McGrath dismantles the argument that science should lead to atheism, and demonstrates instead that Dawkins has abandoned his much-cherished rationality to embrace an embittered manifesto of dogmatic atheist fundamentalism.

The same arguments which go to show that knowledge is power, that the condition of a people is improved in proportion as the masses are educated, have their application with equal weight to the deaf.

To every argument an equal argument is opposed.

The person who knows only his side of the argument knows little of that.

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

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

Argument is conclusive, but it does not remove doubt.

Each book is, in a sense, an argument with myself, and I would write it, whether it is ever published or not.

Those who insist on transferring the Iranian nuclear dossier to the UN Security Council have received an additional argument for doing so.

Most couples have not had hundreds of arguments; they've had the same argument hundreds of times.

All opinions are not equal. Some are a very great deal more robust, sophisticated and well supported in logic and argument than others.

Your argument is sound, nothing but sound.

Rudeness is better than any argument; it totally eclipses intellect.

My life is my argument.

Go beyond science, into the region of metaphysics. Real religion is beyond argument. It can only be lived both inwardly and outwardly.