Arguments Quotes

Blame the economy, blame bad luck, blame my parents, blame your parents, blame the Internet, blame people who use the Internet.

Better be quarrelling than lonesome.

Quarrels would not last long if the fault was only on one side.

La Rochefoucauld

When we quarrel how we wish we had been blameless.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.

Bertrand Russell

Every story has three sides to it - yours mine and the facts.

Foster Meharny Russell

A man never tells you anything until you contradict him.

George Bernard Shaw

In a true tragedy both parties must be right.

Georg W. F. Hegel

Some guy hit my fender the other day and I said unto him "Be fruitful and multiply." But not in those words.

We're eyeball to eyeball and the other fellow just blinked.

Dean Rusk

Weakness on both sides is as we know the motto of all quarrels.

Voltaire

There is no good arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat.

James Russell Lowell

It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.

Pierre Beaumarchais

I learned long ago never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty and besides the pig likes it.

The test of a man or woman's breeding is how they behave in a quarrel.

George Bernard Shaw

I have never in my life learned anything from any man who agreed with me.

Dudley Field Malone

Cole didn’t see her for the rest of the weekend, and he was glad.She wasn’t in class on Monday either. That made it easier.Tuesday she was still missing.

It is enough to write a few lines about tanks in the streets in some sad country, about a clear injustice, which requires no description; it is enough to move from one side to another, to satisfy someone’s taste, the need of the moment, the need for “big” games to take a peek into everything and to prove everything with cheap opinions formed almost on command, almost as a recipe of measured pain to resolve the crisis, to extinguish the pain based on a few words that don’t change anything except that they flatter vanity and a misguided interest in all dimensions of life and creation, in the air that is being poisoned by smoke from cars, smoke from the television screens, the smoke curtains of politicians, left and right, the smoke of films and pop culture, smokescreens of intelligence that finds an explanation for all this, makes up theories, finds justification for the schizophrenic decisions of the new rulers, for wars, agreements, contracts; finds justification for obedience, for the sale of beliefs under the disguise of conviction, for several awards, for a few moments of illusion in the hocus-pocus world where the truth does not interest anyone anymore, except for ways for lies to be packaged and sold as the greatest truth with the help of big intellectuals that will find a good argument, a good defense and justification for everything, since everything becomes much easier, if a hoax is supported by “scientific” evidence.

Dejan Stojanovic

Continuous denial of rational arguments represents a contempt of common sense.

Small quarrels and tensions were expected because of our new environment. Every relationship has them. Each quarrel was soon forgotten and floated away on a wave. And then sometimes, on our silly days, the arguments returned on the wave, but the wave returned taller, a Tsunami, and neither of us knew where to run or what to do.

In life, toughness and roughness go together.

Auliq-Ice

Logic, it is often said, is the study of valid arguments. It is a systematic attempt to distinguish valid arguments from invalid arguments.

W.H. Newton-Smith

It's amazing--my parents call everything a discussion. If I were standing across the street, firing a bazooka at my mother, while my father was launching mortar back at me, and Jeffery was charging down the driveway with a grenade in his teeth, my parents would say we should stop having this public "discussion".

Jordan Sonnenblick

Our community deserves leaders who should know what debates and arguments are better conducted out of the public eye, instead of dumping their baskets of dirty laundry all over the internet. Our community deserves leaders who do not put political expedience or convenience before their commitments to those they supposedly represent. Our community deserves leaders who do not make about-turns on issues such as freedom of speech and accountability to the community they serve when it becomes too embarrassing for them, or too uncomfortable. Our community deserves leaders who can and want to work together, not fling their handbags at each other, hissing like drama queens.

Christina Engela

The longer a person's twitter @username is, the harder it is to argue with them … on twitter.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Arguments should always be held in private. Audiences inflate the ego.

If you can win an argument by stretching your lips with a smile, why open your mouth and lose it.

Sukant Ratnakar

In a short time a group of commissioners arrived to begin organization of a new Indian agency in the valley. One of them mentioned the advantages of schools for Joseph’s people. Joseph replied that the Nez Percés did not want the white man’s schools. “Why do you not want schools?” the commissioner asked. “They will teach us to have churches,” Joseph answered. “Do you not want churches?” “No, we do not want churches.” “Why do you not want churches?” “They will teach us to quarrel about God,” Joseph said. “We do not want to learn that. We may quarrel with men sometimes about things on this earth, but we never quarrel about God. We do not want to learn that.

Dee Brown

I'm sorry you don't like coming back here," her mother often said, to cap whatever petty dust-up they'd had. How could Emily explain: it wasn't her mother or Kersey she'd disowned, but her earlier self, that strange, ungrateful girl who strove to be first at everything and threw tantrums when she failed.

If you don't want to be in an argument with someone, it is probably best to try to solve the problem, rather than lying around hoping the other person will do it for you.

The problem with arguments is that it never adds up to any value to the subject.

[I]t kind of terrified me to imagine myself spending the rest of my life tinkering on the margins of the small arguments.

Lawrence Lessig

Silence isn't always agreement. Sometimes people no longer argue because they no longer care.

They argued about the weather, sports, sex, war, race, politics, and religion; neither of them knew the subjects they debated, but it seemed that the less they knew the better the could argue.

I strongly object to wrong arguments on the right side. I think I object to them more than to the wrong arguments on the wrong side.

G.K. Chesterton

Hate. The word is thrown around as uselessly and as often as love is, and is used as a means in which to accuse and inflict damage; the weak-in-argument (weak in general) use it to discredit those with whom they disagree rather than dissect the issues for what they really are. I liken it to the predictable ad hominem attack, which is about as transparent as those who so ridiculously claim to know what’s in the heart of another.

Donna Lynn Hope

We are not won by arguments that we can analyze but by tone and temper, by the manner which is the man himself.

Is it me you're describing, or yourself?

Donna Lynn Hope

If someone is angry with you, it has a reason. To know just put yourself in the same condition and at the place of that one and talk the same arguments

We as Christians are called to battle. The problem is, we don’t fight about the right things and we do fight about the wrong things. We aren’t getting in the battle that we should and so we fight over petty, insignificant things. Why? Because we are bored. We are soldiers created for fighting against the enemy, Satan, but instead we fight against each other.

No matter the terrible fighting and shooting in the desert, the riffle fires can never dry the oasis.

Auliq-Ice

Being snappy is a symptom of an argument we forgot to have some way back.

Alain de Botton

The silence is the worst part of any fight, because it's made up of all the things we wish we could say, if only we had the guts.

The key to holding a logical argument or debate is to allow oneself to understand the other person’s argument no matter how divergent their views may seem.

Auliq-Ice

I worked on Mauna Kea for over five years and saw my health severely degrade during that time. Thetwo long term summit workers that I knew well died of disease conditions, another worker went on tocommit suicide, and others were argumentative.

I don’t even pretend to believe I know everything; I just believe in arguments God told me I had a pretty good chance of winning, while I was traveling through hell.

Shannon L. Alder

What did the Romans say? “De gustibus non est disputandum”: It is worthless to discuss personal taste. It is called 'personal' for a reason.

I suppose that means you don’t want any band-aids, either,” I said, a touch more bitterly than I’d meant to.

As much as I cared about him, I wasn’t a slave to fate. I could choose to ignore my feelings, strong as they were. It would be painful, but no more so than letting myself pine for my friend.

There are so many battles worth fighting for. The ones not worth fighting are the insecure battles that rage in another person’s mind.

Shannon L. Alder

It really hurts when I see two good friends arenot talking to each other from long ago. Life isjust for once. There are so many arguments youcan win with but you are gonna lose the person

You weasel, good-for-nothing, scumbag, swine,sleazebag, scumbucket, scoundrel, son-of-a-bitch!”In the midst of everything, we all looked at Rosina,who smiled sheepishly.“Sorry. I was reading the Dictionary the other day.”I stared at her with incomprehension.

Never give a person a piece of your mind when all you really wanted to do was give them a piece of your heart.

Shannon L. Alder

When you feel like throwing rocks, make sure they're ones no one can throw back.

Rebecca McKinsey

Most people are not prepared to have their minds changed," he said. "And I think they know in their hearts that other people are just the same, and one of the reasons people become angry when they argue is that they realize just that, as they trot out their exc

In every argument there is a discovery of truth and a bed of success.

Auliq-Ice

Complaining solves nothing but creative problem solving amongst people with a common focus will produce solutions.

Auliq-Ice

In projecting onto others their own moral sense, therapists sometimes make terrible errors. Child physical abusers are automatically labeled “impulsive," despite extensive evidence that they are not necessarily impulsive but more often make thinking errors that justify the assaults. Sexual and physical offenders who profess to be remorseful after they are caught are automatically assumed to be sincere. After all, the therapist would feel terrible if he or she did such a thing. It makes perfect sense that the offender would regret abusing a child. People routinely listen to their own moral sense and assume that others share it.Thus, those who are malevolent attack others as being malevolent, as engaging in dirty tricks, as being “in it for the money,“ and those who are well meaning assume others are too, and keep arguing logically, keep producing more studies, keep expecting an academic debate, all the time assuming that the issue at hand is the truth of the matter.Confessions of a Whistle-Blower: Lessons Learned Author: Anna C. Salter. Ethics & Behavior, Volume 8, Issue 2 June 1998 p122

When you confidently defend fiction, think about reality also

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

You can't fight hatred with hatred and expect anyone to listen to you. You can only try to lessen it with humor, wit, truth and commonsense. If that doesn't work run like hell, while they throw rocks at you.

Shannon L. Alder

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