Argument Quotes

If this phrase of the 'balance of power' is to be always an argument for war, the pretext for war will never be wanting, and peace can never be secure.

Myself when young did eagerly frequent doctor and saint, and heard great argument about it and about: but evermore came out by the same door as in I went.

The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.

After 45 years of marriage, when I have an argument with my wife, if we don't agree, we do what she wants. But, when we agree, we do what I want!

I would be absolutely astounded if population growth and industrialisation and all the stuff we are pumping into the atmosphere hadn't changed the climatic balance. Of course it has. There is no valid argument for denial.

Few progressives would take issue with the argument that, significant accomplishments notwithstanding, the Obama presidency has been a big disappointment.

I have heard my fill of hurtful words. I think it's especially egregious when citizens like me, who point out abuses in their country, are referred to as 'do-gooders.' This is how a phrase that can be used to stop an argument dead becomes part of common usage.

It depends on the situation. I mean, on one hand there's the argument that people should be left alone on the other hand, there's the argument to wade in a stop slaughters in places like Bosnia and Kosovo and what we probably should have done in Rwanda.

When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.

Neither irony or sarcasm is argument.

The main point for me is moral; animals are sentient beings. I know for some this is a hard argument to accept, but we're not built to eat a lot of meat.

Their argument is that most shows are losers, which is true, but it's also disingenuous to say, 'We are not going to take the risk unless it is totally covered by the few successful shows that are out there.'

John Foster Dulles had called on me in his capacity as Secretary of State, and he had exhausted every argument to persuade me to place Cambodia under the protection of the South East Asia Treaty Organization.

Never preach a sermon without a text from the Bible, a text containing the theme which you can elaborate. The text is the best proof in support of your argument. A sermon without a text is an argument without a proof.

Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony.

News, by and large, has been the purest of all the television mediums, or at least we've tried to keep it that way, and there constantly is the argument about the separation between church and state.

John Foster Dulles had called on me in his capacity as Secretary of State, and he had exhausted every argument to persuade me to place Cambodia under the protection of the South East Asia Treaty Organization.

The argument of the broken window pane is the most valuable argument in modern politics.

Any time three New Yorkers get into a cab without an argument, a bank has just been robbed.

I think the biggest mistake I made was this wretched ability to see both sides of an argument.

But, you know, there's still an argument, there's still ten states that outlaw premarital sex, and many more states where adultery is still outlawed and a crime.

Truth springs from argument amongst friends.

The most convincing argument against early parenthood is that you are in a relationship that is likely to fall apart before that child grows up.

It's difficult to love someone you don't respect, which is hard to remember when you're having an argument.

AIDS is an absolutely tragic disease. The argument about AIDS' being some kind of divine retribution is crap.

There's always that argument to make - that you're in better company historically if people don't understand what you're doing.

I understand that Republicans-running-against-Obamacare-in-order-to-save-Medicare is a clever jujitsu. But how long will they play out that argument before they get back to the economy?

Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.

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

I never lost an argument and my parents assumed I would be a lawyer. They cast me in that role.