Argument Quotes - page 5

The argument [behind climate change] is absolute crap. However, the politics of this are tough for us. Eighty per cent of people believe climate change is a real and present danger. (Tony Abbott)
I have resolved to demonstrate by a certain and undoubted course of argument, or to deduce from the very condition of human nature, not what is new and unheard of, but only such things as agree best with practice. View quote
Baruch Spinoza
Don't take the wrong side of an argument just because your opponent has taken the right side. View quote
Baltasar Gracián
The strong appearance of design [in nature] allows a disarmingly simple argument: if it looks, walks and quacks like a duck, then, absent compelling evidence to the contrary, we have warrant to conclude it's a duck. Design should not be overlooked simply because it's so obvious. View quote
Michael Behe
I don't get that -- people going to war over religion. I don't know, I could see going to war over justice or democracy or even revenge. But if you're going to war over religion, now you're just killing people in an argument over who has the better imaginary friend. View quote
Richard Jeni
I do not personally regard the whole of the remaining cities of Germany as worth the bones of one British Grenadier. It therefore seems to me that there is one and only one valid argument on which a case for giving up strategic bombing could be based, namely that it has already completed its task and that nothing now remains for the Armies to do except to occupy Germany against unorganized resistance. View quote
Arthur Travers Harris
The Lord commands us to do good unto all men without exception, though the majority are very undeserving when judged according to their own merits. But scripture here helps us out with an excellent argument when it teaches us that we must not think of man's real value, but only of his creation in the image of God to which we owe all possible honor and love. View quote
John Calvin
Even if the absence of evidence for a given god were not evidence of its absence, it would still be evidence that the belief in that god is unreasonable. That's the only proposition that any atheist of any kind has to demonstrate in order to win the argument. Because anything beyond that... is just having fun. View quote
Scott Clifton
Argument is meant to reveal the truth, not to create it. View quote
Edward de Bono
All opinions are not equal. Some are a very great deal more robust, sophisticated and well supported in logic and argument than others. View quote
Douglas Adams
"I did not ask for objections, but for comments, or helpful suggestions. I looked for more loyalty from you, Captain Hornblower." That made the whole argument pointless. If Leighton only wanted servile agreement there was no sense in continuing. (C. S. Forester)
When a man who is drinking neat gin starts talking about his mother he is past all argument. View quote
C. S. Forester
If you have reservations about the system and want to change it, the democratic argument goes, do so within the system: put yourself forward as a candidate for political office, subject yourself to the scrutiny and the vote of fellow citizens. Democracy does not allow for politics outside the democratic system. In this sense, democracy is totalitarian. View quote
J. M. Coetzee
Surely you do not believe in the gods. What's your argument? Where's your proof? View quote
Aristophanes
A definition is the start of an argument, not the end of one. View quote
Neil Postman
Never say, and never take seriously anyone who says, "I cannot believe that so-and-so could have evolved by gradual selection". I have dubbed this kind of fallacy "the Argument from Personal Incredulity". Time and again, it has proven the prelude to an intellectual banana-skin experience. View quote
Richard Dawkins
Just because science so far has failed to explain something, such as consciousness, to say it follows that the facile, pathetic explanations which religion has produced somehow by default must win the argument is really quite ridiculous. View quote
Richard Dawkins
In argument about moral problems, relativism is the first refuge of the scoundrel. View quote
Roger Scruton
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. View quote
Sarah Vowell
Go beyond science, into the region of metaphysics. Real religion is beyond argument. It can only be lived both inwardly and outwardly. View quote
Swami Sivananda
This self-defeating behavior, so the argument goes, must be the result of warped domestic politics. (John Mearsheimer)
Any church that imprisons a man because he has used an argument against its creed, will simply convince the world that it cannot answer the argument. View quote
Robert G. Ingersoll
For thousands of years people have been trying to force other people to think their way. Did they succeed? No. Will they succeed? No. Why? Because brute force is not an argument. View quote
Robert G. Ingersoll
I am a believer in liberty. That is my religion - to give to every other human being every right that I claim for myself, and I grant to every other human being, not the right - because it is his right - but instead of granting I declare that it is his right, to attack every doctrine that I maintain, to answer every argument that I may urge - in other words, he must have absolute freedom of speech. View quote
Robert G. Ingersoll
The strongest argument for free enterprise is that it prevents anybody from having too much power. Whether that person is a government official, a trade union official, or a business executive. If forces them to put up or shut up. They either have to deliver the goods, produce something that people are willing to pay for, are willing to buy, or else they have to go into a different business. View quote
Milton Friedman