Quotes on Argument

But suppose, for the sake of argument, free competition, without any sort of monopoly, would develop capitalism trade more rapidly. Is it not a fact that the more rapidly trade and capitalism develop, the greater is the concentration of production and capital which gives rise to monopoly?

GRAPESHOT, n. An argument which the future is preparing in answer to the demands of American Socialism.

Talking with a Martian is like talking with an echo. You don't get argument but you don't get results.

In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place.

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.

Let us go, through certain half-deserted streets, / The muttering retreats / Of restless nights in one-night cheap hotels / And sawdust restaurants with oyster-shells: / Streets that follow like a tedious argument / Of insidious intent / To lead you to an overwhelming question.../ Oh, do not ask, 'What is it?' / Let us go and make our visit"' 'I'm in love with you,' he said quietly.

In argument similes are like songs in love; they describe much, but prove nothing.

There can be no progress without head-on confrontation.

Those who direct the maximum force of their desires toward the center, toward true being, toward perfection, seem quieter than the passionate souls because the flame of their fervor cannot always be seen.

Savory...that's a swell word. And Basil and Betel. Capsicum. Curry. All great. But Relish, now, Relish with a capital R. No argument, that' the best.

Neither irony or sarcasm is argument.

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

Strive not with your superiors in argument, but always submit your judgment to others with modesty.

I think the attempt to defend belief can unsettle it, in fact, because there is always an inadequacy in argument about ultimate things.

As often happens between men who have chosen different pursuits, each, while in argument justifying the other's activity, despised it in the depth of his heart.

By the very act of arguing, you awake the patient's reason; and once it is awake, who can foresee the result?

What is flirtatiousness but an argument that life must go on and on and on?

Prejudice, not being founded on reason, cannot be removed by argument.

It is only the intellectually lost who ever argue.

Our kindness may be the most persuasive argument for that which we believe.

Of our thinking it is but the upper surface that we shape into articulate thought; underneath the region of argument and conscious discourse lies the region of meditation.