Never argue at the dinner table, for the one who is not hungry gets the best of the argument.
It has become fashionable in Washington to argue that Obamacare cannot be reversed. That is nonsense. It's a fight worth waging, and a fight which can be won.
Some people argue against both optimism and pessimism in favor of so-called realistic thinking. They distrust optimism on the grounds that it causes us to sugercoat problems, discount risks, and exaggerate the upside. Pessimism, on the other hand, is criticized as too downbeat, de-energizing, and generally damaging in its impact. This crown prefers realism as the neutral and objective middle ground.
To argue that we need some technology in order to produce food to tackle hunger is completely blind to the facts on the ground. Actually, what we need is the exact opposite of what GMOs give us. We have to empower farmers to grow food for themselves and plant and grow their own seeds and use practices to deal with weeds and the need for fertility, not from purchased products like a seed or a chemical, but from their own farms, from their own knowledge and skill sets.
I love people thinking about apologetics. I just think that we have to be careful. We need to realize that we can argue about evolution or the existence of God or any number of things, but until we tell people the message of the cross, we have not evangelized them.
I don't think anyone would argue with the notion that there have been serious abuses on Wall Street.
I have just as many liberal ideas as I have conservative ideas that I argue with myself sometimes.
And above all, I will argue the necessity for preserving, against all shame, a demanding question of revolution itself, a question about utopia that keeps pushing its way through a field of failed aspirations, like a student at the back of the room who gets suddenly, violently, tired of being invisible.
No one can argue any longer about the rights of women. It's like arguing about earthquakes.
People argue themselves out of their pleasures
I shall argue that strong men, conversely, know when to compromise and that all principles can be compromised to serve a greater principle.
To argue with reality is to argue with God
I don't think it's useful for somebody to argue with reviews.
No one has the right to change Paris, the protesters say, and argue that the city is the patrimony of all mankind.
Couldn't we even argue that it is because men are unequal that they have that much more need to be brothers?
I think the fault is more with historicists who have stubbornly failed to develop a good theory of historicity. By simply resting on the feeble laurels of prima facie plausibility ('Jesus existed because everyone said so') and subjective notions of absurdity ('I can't believe Jesus didn't exist!'), the existence of Jesus has largely been taken for granted, even by competent historians who explicitly try to argue for it.
It's funny-my married friends tell me all the time, 'What you have is so much easier. ' When you're doing it on your own, you don't have to [argue over] how you're raising the kids.
How can you argue with a woman who won't?
I would argue that coffee has been far more important to literature than alcohol.
We do not argue with those who disagree with us, we destroy them.