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Argument Quotes - Page 8

You can't talk about peace nor agreement while terror is used as the main argument.

You can't talk about peace nor agreement while terror is used as the main argument.

"Fujimori breaks silence and urges release of hostages". www.cnn.com. December 22, 1996.

Most arguments are useless.

Graeme Kent, Eric Kincaid, Aesop (1990). “Aesop's fables: a collection of Aesop's fables”, Checkerboard Pr

A good action is preferable to an argument.

Francois Voltaire (1977). “The Portable Voltaire”, p.126, Penguin

All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently to be a great evil.

In James Boswell 'The Life of Samuel Johnson' (1791) vol. 1, p. 441 (20July 1763)

Neither irony nor sarcasm is argument.

"Dictionary of American Maxims". Book by David George Plotkin, 1955.

I get in fewer arguments when I'm alone.

FaceBook post by PAULA POUNDSTONE from Aug 11, 2013

Rhetoric is nothing but reason well dressed and argument put in order.

Jeremy Collier, Thomas Lathbury (1852). “An Ecclesiastical History of Great Britain: Chiefly of England: from the First Planting of Christianity, to the End of the Reign of King Charles the Second ; with a Brief Account of the Affairs of Religion in Ireland Collected from the Best Ancient Historians, Councils, and Records”, p.440

Arguments are too much like disputes.

Blaine Josten, Jane Austen (2015). “Blaine Josten's Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice (Annotated)”, p.36, BookBaby

Affect not little shifts and subterfuges to avoid the force of an argument.

Isaac Watts (1743). “The Improvement of the Mind”, p.155

Strive not with your superiors in argument, but always submit your judgment to others with modesty.

George Washington, Jared Sparks (1834). “The Writings of George Washington: Being His Correspondence, Addresses, Messages, and Other Papers, Official and Private, Selected and Published from the Original Manuscripts”, p.412

No deeply rooted tendency was ever extirpated by adverse judgment. Not having originally been founded on argument, it cannot be destroyed by logic.

"Problems of Life and Mind, First Series: The Foundations of a Creed". Book by George Henry Lewes. Volume 1, p. 7, 1874.

I don't believe it. Prove it to me and I still won't believe it.

Douglas Adams (2009). “Life, the Universe and Everything”, p.65, Pan Macmillan

It is difficult to be emphatic when no one is emphatic on the other side.

Charles Dudley Warner (1870). “My Summer in a Garden”, p.120