The argument that someone is a bad man is an inadequate argument for war and certainly an inadequate and unacceptable argument for regime change.
~ John Major
I love argument, I love debate. I don't expect anyone just to sit there and agree with me, that's not their job.
~ Margaret Thatcher
Go beyond science, into the region of metaphysics. Real religion is beyond argument. It can only be lived both inwardly and outwardly.
~ Swami Sivananda
Academics don't normally manage to alter people's way of thinking through their strength of argument.
~ David Crystal
The more a race is governed by its passions, the less it has acquired the habit of cautious and reasoned argument, the more intense will be its love of music.
~ Stendhal
There are 435 members of Congress. There's one 'Morning Joe' show. Hopefully, we can keep hammering the argument that you can disagree with other people and have debates but remain civil.
~ Joe Scarborough
Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence he is just using his memory.
~ Leonardo Da Vinci
Most of the intelligence out there must be artificial intelligence. We keep looking for critters like us living on a planet like ours, where in fact the majority of the intelligence out there is not biological. That would be my argument.
~ Seth Shostak
You have an impeccable argument if you said that Singapore, Hong Kong, and Tokyo are food capitals. They have a maximum amount of great stuff to eat in the smallest areas.
~ Anthony Bourdain
I think what I and most other sociologists of religion wrote in the 1960s about secularization was a mistake. Our underlying argument was that secularization and modernity go hand in hand. With more modernization comes more secularization.
~ Peter L. Berger
Disagreements between incompatible beliefs cannot be settled by reasoned argument because reasoned argument is drummed out of those trained in religion from the cradle.
~ Richard Dawkins
At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.
~ Frederick Douglass
Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony.
~ Jane Austen
The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it.
~ Dale Carnegie
Never argue at the dinner table, for the one who is not hungry always gets the best of the argument.
~ Richard Whately
History is full of really good stories. That's the main reason I got into this racket: I want to make the argument that history is interesting.
~ Sarah Vowell
This band has never had an argument. It's just amazing.
~ Dave Edmunds
Discussion is an exchange of knowledge an argument an exchange of ignorance.
~ Robert Quillen
It is a pet peeve of mine when people throw around arguments citing 'Fair Use' and yet fail to actually explain what a fair use argument actually is.
~ Rachel Sklar
Truth springs from argument amongst friends.
~ David Hume
Argument is meant to reveal the truth, not to create it.
~ Edward De Bono
A half truth, like half a brick, is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carries better.
~ Stephen Leacock
Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate and doubt, to offer a solution everybody can understand.
~ Colin Powell
What is faith? If you believe something because you have evidence for it, or rational argument, that is not faith. So faith seems to be believing something despite the absence of evidence or rational argument for it.
~ Peter Singer
The scientific argument advanced for intelligent design at the Dover trial, those arguments collapsed, scientifically and intellectually.
~ Kenneth R. Miller
Another argument, vaguer and even less persuasive, is that gay marriage somehow does harm to heterosexual marriage. I have yet to meet anyone who can explain to me what this means. In what way would allowing same-sex partners to marry diminish the marriages of heterosexual couples?
~ Ted Olson
He who wants to persuade should put his trust not in the right argument, but in the right word. The power of sound has always been greater than the power of sense.
~ Joseph Conrad
The argument of the broken window pane is the most valuable argument in modern politics.
~ Emmeline Pankhurst
Back when Detroit was the head of auto manufacturing, it was clear where profits were created. Right? A car was made in Detroit. There was little argument that you could make that some of the money from that should be sent overseas to Ireland.
~ Charles Duhigg
Behind every argument is someone's ignorance.
~ Louis D. Brandeis
Anger is never without an argument, but seldom with a good one.
~ George Savile
Ridicule is the first and last argument of a fool.
~ Charles Simmons
No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal.
~ Marilyn Ferguson
When I'm alone, I can sleep crossways in bed without an argument.
~ Zsa Zsa Gabor
I later spent... five to eight months in hospitals in New Jersey, always on an involuntary basis, and always attempting a legal argument for release.
~ John Forbes Nash
Even in the beginning, when we knew there was a legal argument about how much our song sounds like his song, as one songwriter to another, I wasn't sure that Cat Stevens would take that as bad.
~ Wayne Coyne
My dad shaped the footballing side of me, and Mum shaped me as a person. I've always been very close to her - we've only ever had one argument, and that was over something stupid when I was 13.
~ Frank Lampard
