Arguing Quotes - Page 38

• Civilizations evolve over time, and most scholars of civilization, including people like Carol Quigley, argue that they go through periods of warring states, and eventually evolve into a universal state.

  Samuel P. Huntington

  Civilization, People, States

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• You might argue that the history of contemporary art is a series of avant-garde movements, each new wave outraging the last.

  Michael Scott

  Art, Might, Lasts

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• Our basic civil liberties are in jeopardy, but we're going to be spending our time as a society arguing about whether or not schoolchildren should be forced to pay tribute to imaginary invisible beings who live in magical kingdoms in outer space some

  Tom Tomorrow

  Space, Liberty, Kingdoms

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• So when a good idea comes, you know, part of my job is to move it around, just see what different people think, get people talking about it, argue with people about it, get ideas moving among that group of 100 people, get different people together to explore different aspects of it quietly, and, you know – just explore things.

  Steve Jobs

  Life, Jobs, Moving

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• A key difference between a dialogue and an ordinary discussion is that, within the latter people usually hold relatively fixed positions and argue in favor of their views as they try to convince others to change. At best this may produce agreement or compromise, but it does not give rise to anything creative.

  David

  Keys, Views, Agreement

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• Sacred Scripture, since it has no science above itself, can dispute with one who denies its principles only if the opponent admits some at least of the truths obtained through divine revelation; thus we can argue with heretics from texts in Holy Writ, and against those who deny one article of faith we can argue from another. If our opponent believes nothing of divine revelation, there is no longer any means of proving the articles of faith by reasoning, but only of answering his objections - if he has any - against faith.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Christian, Believe, Mean

  Saint Thomas (Aquinas), Stephen F. Brown (1999). “On Faith and Reason”, p.19, Hackett Publishing

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• I argue with wife over what little pieces of real estate investments we should try to pay on and hold, and which to let go back. We always said, "Put it in land, and you can always walk on it." We did, but no buyers would walk on it with us.

  Will Rogers

  Letting Go, Real, Land

  Will Rogers, James Smallwood, Steven K. Gragert (1982). “Will Rogers' Weekly Articles: The Harding”

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• If for the sake of a crowded audience you do wish to hold a lecture, your ambition is no laudable one, and at least avoid all citations from the poets, for to quote them argues feeble industry.

  Hippocrates

  Ambition, Wish, Sake

  Hippocrates, Heraclitus (of Ephesus.), Paul Potter (1923). “Hippocrates”

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• Arguing with a man doesn't work.

  Laura Schlessinger

  Women, Men

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• Don't talk over me, don't argue with me, just listen.

  Laura Schlessinger

  Women, Just Listen

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• There's no point in arguing with me- in my mind, I'm always right.

  Laura Schlessinger

  Women, Mind, No Point

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• You've just got to follow your own path. You have to trust your heart and you have to listen to the warnings. ... You can't argue with the universe. It's not about that. It's more about relaxing and knowing that you can handle it and feeling empowered. Knowing you have the power to do whatever the hell you want to do. That's what it's about. It really is.

  Chaka Khan

  Heart, Knowing, Feelings

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• My reason for arguing against abolishing these types of sports isn't some kind of lofty, philosophical rationale. It's just that I did it and I liked it. It comes down to a libertarian issue for me. I feel that if I know the risks and I want to take them, I should be allowed to do so.

  Jonathan Gottschall

  Sports, Philosophical, Issues

  "A Talk With The Savage English Professor". Interview with Sam Harris, www.thedailybeast.com. March 5, 2015.

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• You don't like a particular policy or a particular president? Then argue for your position. Go out there and win an election. Push to change it. But don't break it. Don't break what our predecessors spent over two centuries building. That's not being faithful to what this country's about.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Winning, Two

  "Obama wants new approach after shutdown" by Tom Cohen, www.cnn.com. October 18, 2013.

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• People who believe their unquestioned thoughts cannot see what is obvious and directly in front of their faces at all times, because they are invested in what they believe to be true. As long as they live out of an unquestioned mind, they must continue to argue with what they believe is happening rather than the reality of what is really happening.

  Byron Katie

  Believe, Reality, Long

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• As Harvard University psychologist Daniel Gilbert argues, 'You can't adapt to commuting, because it's entirely unpredictable. Driving in traffic is a different kind of hell every day.'

  Tom Vanderbilt

  Different, Driving, Kind

  Tom Vanderbilt (2008). “Traffic”, p.141, Vintage

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• Deceit for personal gain is one of history's most recurring crimes. Man's first step towards change would be thinking, counter-arguing, re-thinking, twisting, straightening, perfecting, then believing every original idea he intends to make public before making it public. There is always an angle from which an absolute truth may appear askew just as there is always a personal emotion, or a personal agenda, which alienates the ultimate good of mankind.

  Criss Jami

  Believe, Men, Thinking

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.65, Criss Jami

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• I believe God himself will someday debate with and answer every objection arrogant men can come up with against him; I believe he will humble us and humor himself. Know-it-alls, pseudo-intellectuals, militant anti-theists, for Christ's sake, or rather their own sake, best beware of getting roasted by their own medicine. Ah! Our delusions of trying to argue against an omniscient Creator.

  Criss Jami

  Believe, Humble, Men

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.7, Criss Jami

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• The apologist is most entrusted with apologetics when capable of arguing his opponent's position better than his opponent.

  Criss Jami

  Opponents, Apologetic, Position

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.13, Criss Jami

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• Usually without realizing it, our ultimate peace starts and ends in the authority of God alone, which means the solution to living in joy, peace, and harmony with our fellow men has been here for all since the beginning of mankind and throughout civilization. I have yet to feel the urge to argue politics: it reminds me of getting off the freeway to sit in raging traffic.

  Criss Jami

  Mean, Men, Civilization

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• I am not here to merely argue about the perplexities regarding theism or philosophy, but to be a light to the world and to reach out to those who long to be a part of that light.

  Criss Jami

  Philosophy, Light, Long

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.71, Criss Jami

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• It's not about whether or not someone is a bigot, but whether or not the argument which that someone is arguing is worth being a bigot about.

  Criss Jami

  Argument, Bigots

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.65, Criss Jami

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• They say that "he who flies highest, falls farthest" - and who am I to argue? But we can't forget that "he who doesn't flap his wings, never flies at all".

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Fall, Wings, Forget

  "The Proud Highway : The Fear and Loathing Letters" by Hunter S. Thompson, Volume I, (p. 71), 1997.

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• I'd say that, in addition to actually taking my brother and sister and I camping and hiking and river rafting all our lives and introducing us to the power of natural landscapes, his [my father's] biggest impact on my thinking has been to always argue that the "spiritual case for Nature" was not going to outweigh the needs of 7 billion people and to insist that law, science and economics were the critical frameworks through which we had to defend the value of nature.

  Edward Norton

  Spiritual, Brother, Father

  "Dialogues on the Environment: Q&A With Edward Norton". Interview with Mark Tercek, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 6, 2013.

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• Depending on which side of the fence you're on, you could argue that the sexual liberation of the late '60s, led to women being emancipated in some ways. That they found a voice during that time, with feminism. It's complicated.

  Steve Coogan

  Voice, Feminism, Way

  "Q&A: Steve Coogan on Sex, Drugs & Bad Press". Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.esquire.com. July 9, 2013.

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