Argument Quotes

The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.
Winston Churchill

Best, Democracy, Against

I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left.
Margaret Thatcher

Political, Single, Means

The other night I ate at a real nice family restaurant. Every table had an argument going.
George Carlin

Family, Nice, Real

Silence is argument carried out by other means.
Che Guevara

Silence, Means, Carried

The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Rather, Against, Existence

People's minds are changed through observation and not through argument.
Will Rogers

Through, Minds, Changed

A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this - that offences against Charity are about the only ones which men on their death-beds can be made - not to understand - but to feel - as crime.
Edgar Allan Poe

Religion, Men, Strong

Part of the reason that our politics seems so tough right now and facts and science and argument does not seem to be winning the day all the time is because we're hardwired not to always think clearly when we're scared. And the country's scared.
Barack Obama

Politics, Time, Science

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

Love, Job, Anyone

Never argue at the dinner table, for the one who is not hungry always gets the best of the argument.
Voltaire

Best, Hungry, Dinner

Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory.
Leonardo da Vinci

Anyone, Memory, Authority

The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it.
Dale Carnegie

The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.
H. L. Mencken

Poor, Poverty, Common

In Vegas, I got into a long argument with the man at the roulette wheel over what I considered to be an odd number.
Steven Wright

Long, Number, Vegas

That God cannot lie, is no advantage to your argument, because it is no proof that priests can not, or that the Bible does not.
Thomas Paine

God, Lie, Cannot

A half truth, like half a brick, is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carries better.
Stephen Leacock

Truth, Whole, Half

Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate and doubt, to offer a solution everybody can understand.
Colin Powell

Great, Doubt, Through

The best argument I know for an immortal life is the existence of a man who deserves one.
William James

Life, Best, Existence

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

Change, Emotional, Cannot

My wife Mary and I have been married for forty-seven years and not once have we had an argument serious enough to consider divorce; murder, yes, but divorce, never.
Jack Benny

Wife, Enough, Serious

You never need an argument against the use of violence, you need an argument for it.
Noam Chomsky

Violence, Against

After an argument, silence may mean acceptance or the continuation of resistance by other means.
Mason Cooley

Mean, Silence, May

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

Time, Irony, Needed

My life is my argument.
Albert Schweitzer

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

Time, Three, Bank

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

We must reinforce argument with results.
Booker T. Washington

Results, Reinforce

He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
Michel de Montaigne

Reason, Weak, Shows

I say, If everybody in this house lives where it's God first, friends and family second and you third, we won't ever have an argument.
Jeff Foxworthy

Family, God, Friends

Preaching is to much avail, but practice is far more effective. A godly life is the strongest argument you can offer the skeptic.
Hosea Ballou

Life, Far, Godly

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