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| Bigotry and intolerance, silenced by ARGUMENT, endeavours to silence by persecution, in old days by fire and sword, in modern days by the tongue. | Charles Simmons | |
| Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties. | John Milton | 1608-1674, British Poet |
| So much perfection argues rottenness somewhere. | Beatrice Potter Webb | |
| Now you can begin to see quite transparently that nothing purchased life is one of ARGUMENT, If other people don't agree with you you're in big trouble. How far would you get in your work if nobody agreed that what you were doing had value? | Frederick | Carl) Frieseke (1874-1939, American-Born French Painter |
| Advertising is the modern substitute for ARGUMENT; its function is to make the worse appear the better. | George Santayana | 1863-1952, American Philosopher, Poet |
| The most sensible people to be met with in society are men of business and of the world, who argue from what they see and know, instead of spinning cobweb distinctions of what things ought to be. | William Hazlitt | 1778-1830, British Essayist |
| Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally. | Abraham Lincoln | 1809-1865, Sixteenth President of the USA |
| A striking feature of moral and political ARGUMENT in the modern world is the extent to which it is innovators, radicals, and revolutionaries who revive old doctrines, while their conservative and reactionary opponents are the inventors of new ones. | Alasdair Chalmers Macintyre | |
| Men are convinced of your ARGUMENTs, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death. | Albert Camus | 1913-1960, French Existential Writer |
| True disputants are like true sportsman: their whole delight is in the pursuit. | Alexander Pope | 1688-1744, British Poet, Critic, Translator |
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| When much dispute has past, we find our tenets just the same as last. | Alexander Pope | 1688-1744, British Poet, Critic, Translator |
| Curiosity ... endows the people who have it with a generosity in ARGUMENT and a serenity in their own mode of life which springs from their cheerful willingness to let life take the form it will. | Alistair Cooke | 1908-, British Broadcaster, Journalist |
| Wise men argue cases, fools decide them. | Anacharsis | 600 BC, Scythian Philosopher |
| Most quarrels amplify a misunderstanding. | Andre Gide | 1869-1951, French Author |
| The difficult part in an ARGUMENT is not to defend one's opinion, but rather to know it. | Andre Maurois | 1885-1967, French Writer |
| Men have defined the parameters of every subject. All feminist ARGUMENTs, however radical in intent or consequence, are with or against assertions or premises implicit in the male system, which is made credible or authentic by the power of men to name. | Andrea Dworkin | 1946-, American Feminist Critic |
| The ARGUMENT between wives and whores is an old one; each one thinking that whatever she is, at least she is not the other. | Andrea Dworkin | 1946-, American Feminist Critic |
| We must not contradict, but instruct him that contradicts us; for a madman is not cured by another running mad also. | Antisthenes | 388-311 BC, Greek Dramatist |
| Quarrels often arise in marriages when the bridal gifts are excessive. | Auson | |
| A sophistical rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity, and gifted with an egotistical imagination that can at all times command an interminable and inconsistent series of ARGUMENTs to malign an opponent and to glorify himself. | Benjamin Disraeli | 1804-1881, British Statesman, Prime Minister |
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| He that blows the coals in quarrels that he has nothing to do with, has no right to complain if the sparks fly in his face. | Benjamin Franklin | 1706-1790, American Scientist, Publisher, Diplomat |
| Those disputing, contradicting, and confuting people are generally unfortunate in their affairs. They get victory, sometimes, but they never get good will, which would be of more use to them. | Benjamin Franklin | 1706-1790, American Scientist, Publisher, Diplomat |
| I've had a few ARGUMENTs with people, but I never carry a grudge. You know why? While you're carrying a grudge, they're out dancing. | Buddy Hackett | |
| Quality isn't something that can be argued into an article or promised into it. It must be put there. If it isn't put there, the finest sales talk in the world won't act as a substitute. | C. G. Campbell | |
| It is as absurd to argue men, as to torture them, into believing. | Cardinal J. Newman | 1801-1890, British Preacher |
| It is a difficult matter to argue with the belly since it has no ears. | Cato The Elder | BC 234-149, Roman Statesman, Orator |
| It is the briefest yet wisest maxim which tells us to ''meddle not''. | Charles Caleb Colton | 1780-1832, British Sportsman Writer |
| Men's ARGUMENTs often prove nothing but their wishes. | Charles Caleb Colton | 1780-1832, British Sportsman Writer |
| Silence is ARGUMENT carried on by other means. | Che Guevara | |
| One never needs their humour as much a when they argue with a fool. | Chinese Proverb | Sayings of Chinese Origin |
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| There is a sort of exotic preposterousness about a lot of elections, the way ARGUMENTs are made even cruder. | Chris Patten | 1944-, British Statesman, Governor of Hong Kong |
| The function of art is to make that understood which in the form of ARGUMENT would be incomprehensible. | Constantin Brancusi | 1876-1957, Romanian Sculptor |
| There's nothing I like less than bad ARGUMENTs for a view that I hold dear. | Daniel Dennett | |
| Keep cool; anger is not an ARGUMENT. | Daniel Webster | 1782-1852, American Lawyer, Statesman |
| Philosophic ARGUMENT, especially that drawn from the vastness of the universe, in comparison with the apparent insignificance of this globe, has sometimes shaken my reason for the faith that is in me; but my heart has always assured and reassured me that | Daniel Webster | 1782-1852, American Lawyer, Statesman |
| Philosophical ARGUMENT has sometimes shaken my reason for the faith that was in me; but my heart has always assured me that the Gospel of Jesus Christ must be reality. | Daniel Webster | 1782-1852, American Lawyer, Statesman |
| 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 | 1809-1845, American Poet, Critic, short-story Writer |
| You may easily play a joke on a man who likes to argue -- agree with him. | Edgar Watson Howe | 1853-1937, American Journalist, Author |
| The sounder your ARGUMENT, the more satisfaction you get out of it. | Edgar Watson Howe | 1853-1937, American Journalist, Author |
| Anger is never without an ARGUMENT, but seldom with a good one. | Edward F. Halifax | 1881-1959, British Conservative Statesman |
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| You punch me, I punch back. I do not believe it's good for ones self-respect to be a punching bag. | Edward Koch | 1924-, American Politician |
| Debate is the death of conversation. | Emil Ludwig | 1881-1948, German Writer |
| I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality. | Emily Dickinson | 1830-1886, American Poet |
| Use soft words and hard ARGUMENTs. | English Proverb | Sayings of British Origin |
| It is more noble by silence to avoid an injury than by ARGUMENT to overcome it. | Francis Beaumont | 1584-1616, British Dramatist |
| Quarrels would not last so long if the fault lay only on one side. | Francois De La Rochefoucauld | 1613-1680, French Classical Writer |
| The truth is always the strongest ARGUMENT. Sophocles Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time. | Frederick II) Frederick The Great (1712-1786, Born in Berlin, King of Prussia (1740-1786), | |
| Don't forget your great guns, which are the most respectable ARGUMENTs of the rights of kings. | Frederick II, Frederick The Great | 1712-1786, Born in Berlin, King of Prussia (1740-1786), |
| The irrationality of a thing is no ARGUMENT against its existence, rather a condition of it. | Friedrich Nietzsche | 1844-1900, German Philosopher |
| One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed. | Friedrich Nietzsche | 1844-1900, German Philosopher |
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