(610 quotes found)
“The best argument against democracy is a five minute conversation with the average voter.”
Winston Churchill
“All the arguments to prove man's superiority cannot shatter this hard fact: in suffering the animals are our equals.”
Peter Singer
“Arguments of convenience lack integrity and inevitably trip you up.”
Donald Rumsfeld
“There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all arguments and which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance - that principle is contempt prior to investigation”
Herbert Spencer
“In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken', and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen”
Dr. Carl Sagan
“Many can argue; not many converse”
Amos Bronson Alcott
“He who wants to persuade should put his trust not in the right argument, but in the right word. The power of sound has always been greater than the power of sense.”
Joseph Conrad
“Use soft words and hard arguments.”
English Proverb
“He who strikes the first blow admits he's lost the argument”
Chinese Proverbs
“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
