Argument
Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions.
Arguments about Scripture achieve nothing but a stomachache and a headache.
The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.
Our criminal justice system is fallible. We know it, even though we don't like to admit it. It is fallible despite the best efforts of most within it to do justice. And this fallibility is, at the end of the day, the most compelling, persuasive, and winning argument against a death penalty.
Myself when young did eagerly frequent doctor and saint, and heard great argument about it and about: but evermore came out by the same door as in I went.
Measles is probably the best argument for why there needs to be global health, and why we have to think about it as a global public good. Because in a sense, measles is the canary in the coal mine for immunization. It is, you know, highly transmissible. The vaccine costs 15 cents, so it's not — you know, shouldn't be an issue in terms of cost.
Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; an argument an exchange of ignorance.
No matter what side of the argument you are on, you always find people on your side that you wish were on the other.
Silence is argument carried out by other means.
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.
I love argument, I love debate. I don't expect anyone just to sit there and agree with me, that's not their job.
Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.
I guess some people are brilliant enough to be brilliant on their own and never doubt anything and come up with fabulous things. But I think it's good to get into arguments with people and have them say, 'That sucks' or 'You're crazy' or 'That's cheesy' or 'What do you think of this?'
Unhappy, let alone angry, religious people provide more persuasive arguments for atheism and secularism than do all the arguments of atheists.
Be able to analyze statistics, which can be used to support or undercut almost any argument.
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