He’s wonderful at stirring up an argument and slinging around rhetoric. … For some of these people, it seems to be a theological issue. For us, it’s an analytic issue.

What’s all this love of arguing? No one ever convinces anyone else.

Bean sighed inwardly. It never failed. Whenever he had any conversation with Ender, it turned into an argument.

I don’t buy the Wall Street argument that capital spending won’t come back anytime soon because of overcapacity.

If I were a pervert, I’d be looking for something a damn bit more attractive than you, jackass. And definitely someone that smelled alive.

A long dispute means that both parties are wrong

My father would argue two side of a möbius strip.

During the flames of controversy, opinions, mass disputes, conflict, and world news, sometimes the most precious, refreshing, peaceful words to hear amidst all the chaos are simply and humbly ‘I don’t know.

They dispute not in order to find or even to seek Truth, but for victory, and to appear the more learned and strenuous upholders of a contrary opinion. Such persons should be avoided by all...

The traditional arguments for the existence of God have been fairly thoroughly criticised by philosophers. But the theologian can, if he wishes, accept this criticism. He can admit that no rational proof of God’s existence...

To leave a man’s ego bigger, retweet him. To leave his faculty of reasoning better, challenge his tweet.

The most important tactic in an argument next to being right is to leave an escape hatch for your opponent so that he can gracefully swing over to your side without an embarrassing loss of...

Don’t bother to argue anything on the Internet. And I mean, ANYTHING…. The most innocuous, innocent, harmless, basic topics will be misconstrued by people trying to deconstruct things down to the sub-atomic level and entirely...

A healthy argument, even with an idiot, is always good; it opens one’s eyes to own misunderstandings.

Very often in everyday life one sees that by losing one’s temper with someone who has already lost his, one does not gain anything but only sets out upon the path of stupidity. He who...

I think possibly the international team looks stronger than the U.S. team, but then I use the argument that we’re playing on American soil … I don’t know whether that holds any water.

I am not being overly harsh. Overtly hostile, yes, but exactly the right amount of harsh.

Before I met the Jesuits, I’d never encountered another group who thought that intellect and arrogance were treasures beyond price and necessities in waging wars against blasphemers, heretics.

1) There exist instances of intense suffering which an omnipotent, omniscient being could have prevented without thereby losing some greater good or permitting some evil equally bad or worse.2) An omniscient, wholly good being would...

It’s a strange truth that no matter how persuaded we might be of our own correctness, the discomfiting realization that others disagree with us causes a paralyzing inability to argue the case convincingly.

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

Excluding certain ideas and thoughts, calling them hate speech, is an important piece in the progressive movement’s puzzle. If you can’t win an argument logically, demonize your opponent, make him out to be a bad...

The whole argument with the anti-suffragists, or even the critical suffragist man, is this: that you can govern human beings without their consent.

Any fact is better established by two or three good testimonies than by a thousand arguments.

The so-called paradox of freedom is the argument that freedom in the sense of absence of any constraining control must lead to very great restraint, since it makes the bully free to enslave the meek....

Right is not right; so is not so. If right were really right, it would differ so clearly from not right that there would be no need for argument. If so were really so, it...

I wasn’t in the mood for a fight, but fights weren’t always conveniently scheduled. (Jessica)

Men argue, nature acts.

The argument has been made in Congress that it is slippery slope if you allow therapeutic, what people people are calling therapeutic cloning, then you will get reproductive cloning.

It’s not that PowerPoint brought the Columbia down, but the method of presentation broke up the argument into tiny fragments, and it’s intensely hierarchical-no sentences, just little phrases.

The big, burly oaf offended my girl, so without hesitation I rushed to her defense. I did, however, make a few stops along the way, and by the time I got home and back, the...

If you are without contention and still have the ability to make people think, their ego is going to take a hit and as a result they’re not going to like you. They don’t want...

I think the conference is as strong, if not stronger, than last year. Could an argument [for five NCAA teams] be made today? I think so.

In these troubled times we live in, we should remain vigilant and see through populist arguments.

It was completely fruitless to quarrel with the world, whereas the quarrel with oneself was occasionally fruitful and always, she had to admit, interesting.

He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument

Evidence will terminate any short or long era of an argument.

He rejected traditional religious beliefs (Jewish, Christian, and Islamic) not on the basis of any reasoned argument, nor even with an expression of emotional antipathy, for he loved to use religious expressions and metaphors, but...

There are answers which, in turning away wrath, only send it to the other end of the room, and to have a discussion coolly waived when you feel that justice is all on your own...

I’m sure there’ll be some type of argument from somebody, but I can’t think of a team that needed a win more than ours did anywhere in the country.

We’ve heard the argument here now that the FCC is the one that ought to redefine the definition of indecency. Perhaps that is true. I find it objectionable that those who have been granted the...

They weren’t making much sense; she decided they were having an argument as old and comfortable as an armchair, the kind of argument that no one ever really wins or loses, but which can go...

Chad seemed both venomous and insecure, a flammable combination.

They argued because they liked argument, liked the swift run of the unfettered mind along the paths of possibility, liked to question what was not questioned.

Most errors consist only in our not rightly applying names to things. For when someone says that the lines which are drawn from the center of a circle to its circumference are unequal, he surely...

PRESIDENT BARTLETT: “See how benevolent I can be when everybody just does what I tell them.

Our enemies are quite good for relentlessly keeping us sharp and on our toes. This especially goes for sincere philosophers. They use their enemies to challenge their arguments so that they can know the weak...

1. God is (by definition) a being than which no greater being can be thought.2. Greatness includes greatness of virtue.3. Therefore, God is a being than which no being could be more virtuous.4. But virtue...

It wasn’t even a fight, really. We didn’t shout. We barely even argued, but a snake of tension quietly slithered into our lives.

Red lines are kind of political arguments that are used to try to put people in a corner.