Quotes by Argument It is one thing to persuade, another to command; one thing to press with arguments, another with penalties. John Locke penaltiescommandargument Insight makes argument ridiculous. John Lancaster Spalding ridiculousargumentinsight I don't want to get into an argument with somebody about how they ought to vote. John Kasich argumentvotewant This self-defeating behavior, so the argument goes, must be the result of warped domestic politics. John Mearsheimer argumentbehaviorself Public reason arguments can be good or bad just like other arguments. John Rawls argumentbe-goodreason My argument has always been that this is not an anti-Bush film, it's a pro-democracy film. And if George W.Bush comes out on the wrong side of democracy, that's his problem. John Sayles argumentdemocracysides Living with the liberals, you get to hear their arguments, fight with them all the time. Keeps me alert. John Stossel argumentfighting The strongest of all arguments against the interference of the public with purely personal conduct, is that when it does interfere, the odds are that it interferes wrongly, and in the wrong place. John Stuart Mill argumentoddsdoe The peculiarity of the evidence of mathematical truths is that all the argument is on one side. John Stuart Mill argumenttruth-issides It is senseless to argue with someone whose sole purpose in life is to not be convinced of anything. Jon Campbell argumentpurposearguing An Inconvenient Truth is so convincing that it makes opposers of the argument as credible as Holocaust deniers. Jon Niccum argumenttruth-isholocaust In argument with men a woman ever Goes by the worse, whatever be her cause. John Milton argumentcausesmen It's the same argument people say about the blogs. The blogs are responsible. No, they're not. The blogs are like anything else. You judge each one based on its own veracity and intelligence and all of that. Jon Stewart argumentjudgingpeople If you have high IQ, you're really good at finding post-hoc arguments to support your feelings of truthiness. Jonathan Haidt argumentsupportfeelings Argument, as usually managed, is the worst sort of conversation, as it is generally in books the worst sort of reading. Jonathan Swift argumentreadingbook He realized at last that the arguments of pessimism were powerless to comfort him Joris-Karl Huysmans argumentlastscomfort Lincoln once said that America was founded on a proposition that was written by Jefferson in 1776. We are really founded on an argument about what that proposition means. Joseph J. Ellis argumentmeanamerica The best argument for anarchism is the twentieth century. Joseph Sobran anarchismargumentcentury Silence is one of the hardest kind of arguments to refute. There is no good substitute for wisdom; but silence is the best that has yet been discovered. Josh Billings argumentsilencekind I want my arguments to be good arguments on the basis of what I actually have to say. Judith Butler argumentbe-goodwant«910111213141516171819»
