Arguing Quotes

• No one has the right to change Paris, the protesters say, and argue that the city is the patrimony of all mankind.

  

  John Vinocur
  • Change
  • Mankind
  • Cities

• One could dismiss the zombie trend as merely feeding a mass public that craves the strange and bizarre. Such an explanation would be only skin-deep. Popular culture often provides a window into the subliminal or unstated fears of citizens, and zombies are no exception. Some cultural commentators argue that the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks are a primary cause for renewed interest in the living dead, and the numbers appear to back up this assertion.

  

  Daniel Drezner
  • Culture
  • Strange
  • September

• In my own personal experience in my life, people that I argue with or have confrontations with are the people I love and care about the most. I wouldn't think to argue with somebody I couldn't give two s**ts about. There's no point in arguing if you don't care.

  

  Luke Pasqualino
  • People
  • Life
  • Thinking

• I would also argue that there is a good chance that an outline will help you stave off any onslaught of writer's block. Let me advise you right up front that I am not a big believer in writer's block. I think writer's block is God's way of telling you one of two things - that you failed to think your material through sufficiently before you started writing, or that you need a day or two off with your family and friends.

  

  Terry Brooks
  • Thinking
  • Writing
  • Family

• If you argue with a fool, someone passing by will not be able to tell who is the fool and who is not.

  

  Wilma Mankiller
  • Fool
  • Able
  • Arguing

• A common rhetorical strategy of politicians and others is to frame their opponents' views in the worst possible light, tacitly suggesting that all versions of the view must be committed to some particularly deplorable conclusion. Philosophers are not immune to this way of arguing.

  

  Dale Jamieson
  • Common
  • Politician
  • Philosopher

• Never argue with your wife about hostility when she's a certified Freudian.

  

  William Goldman
  • Wife
  • Arguing
  • Hostility

• If everyone is getting money, no one is getting disrespected, and no one is getting hurt, no one should be arguing.

  

  Damon Dash
  • Everyone
  • Getting
  • Disrespected

• Every cell has certain knowledge. I think knowledge is contained within the genetics, even. I think scientists will find that. I don't think there's a gay gene, though. They may argue that down, but I don't think that, because that's a preference.

  

  Robert Fitzgerald Diggs Achozen
  • Thinking
  • Gay
  • Scientist

• Why is it that the Rev. Jesse Jackson can quote the Bible in support of his pet causes, but conservative ministers and lay people must argue purely on secular grounds for their social and political agenda?... It seems that mixing religion and politics is acceptable as long as the road turns to the left.

  

  Gary DeMar
  • People
  • Support
  • Christian

• You should carefully study the Art of Reasoning, as it is what most people are very deficient in, and I know few things more disagreeable than to argue, or even converse with a man who has no idea of inductive and deductive philosophy.

  

  William John Wills
  • People
  • Men
  • Art

• Libertarians argue that no normal adult has the right to impose choices on other normal adults, except in abnormal circumstances, such as when one person finds another unconscious and administers medical assistance or calls an ambulance.

  

  Tom G. Palmer
  • Choices
  • Circumstances
  • Medical

• When I think about the future, I'm not necessarily arguing it's going to be better or worse. I'm just saying it's going to be different.

  

  Chuck Klosterman
  • Different
  • Future
  • Worse

• The real power of this book comes from its documentation from major sources. In fact, you will quickly discover that most of my documents about Jewish Supremacism are from Jewish sources. They argue more convincingly for my point of view than anything I could write. I encourage you to go to the sources that I quote and check them out for yourself. In this book I take you along with me on a fascinating journey of discovery in a forbidden subject. I urge you to courageously keep an open mind while you explore the topics ahead, for that is the only way any of us can find the truth.

  

  David Duke
  • Writing
  • Mind
  • Real

• And trying to break it down this way, to minor and major offenses, maybes and what-ifs, was like arguing over the origin of cracks in a broken egg. It was done. How it happened didn't matter anymore.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Trying
  • Done
  • Broken

• The only fool bigger than the person who knows it all is the person who argues with him.

  

  Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
  • Life
  • Funny
  • Knows

• Toast is bread made delicious and useful. Un-toasted bread is okay for children's sandwiches and sopping up barbecue sauce, but for pretty much all other uses, toast is better than bread. An exception is when the bread is fresh from the oven, piping hot, with butter melting all over it. Then it's fantastic, but I would argue that bread fresh out of the oven is a kind of toast. Because I'm an asshole and I refuse to be wrong about something.

  

  Steve Albini Big Black
  • Kind
  • Hot
  • Fantastic

• Gordie, the white boy genius, gave me this book by a Russian dude named Tolstoy, who wrote, 'Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.' Well, I hate to argue with a Russian genius, but Tolstoy didn't know Indians, and he didn't know that all Indian families are unhappy for the same exact reasons: the frikkin' booze.

  

  Sherman Alexie
  • Book
  • Hate
  • Reason

• The Bible is not interested in arguing, because if you state a thesis of belief you have already stated it's opposite; if you say, I believe in God, you have already suggested the possibility of not believing in him.

  

  Northrop Frye
  • Believe
  • Possibility
  • Arguing

• A wise man told me don't argue with fools. Cause people from a distance can't tell who is who.

  

  Jay-Z
  • People
  • Men
  • Wise

• One of the first and most difficult steps in a science is to conceive clearly the nature of the magnitudes about which we are arguing.

  

  William Stanley Jevons
  • Difficult
  • Firsts
  • Steps

• All art points to others with whom the writer argues about what is . . . He must have models with which to agree . . . or outright oppose . . . for Nature seems to remain silence.

  

  Charles Bartlett Johnson
  • Art
  • Silence
  • Seems

• It's not good to argue with your woman about something, because women feel strong about it, they slap you in your face, you still go back to them.

  

  Robert Fitzgerald Diggs Achozen
  • Strong
  • Feels
  • Faces

• Some writers, notably Anton Chekov, argue that all characters must be admirable, because once we've looked at anyone deeply enough and understood their motivation we must identify with them rather than judge them.

  

  Scarlett Thomas
  • Character
  • motivation
  • Judging

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