There's always that argument to make - that you're in better company historically if people don't understand what you're doing.
A man with an experience of God is never at the mercy of a man with an argument.
When an arguer argues dispassionately he thinks only of the argument.
Keep cool; anger is not an argument.
Nothing sways the stupid more than arguments they can't understand.
My ideal picture of citizenship will always be an argument, not a sing-along.
Hear one side and you will be in the dark. Hear both and all will be clear.
You don’t break up with someone just because of an argument, Josh. At least, I don’t.
An argument often given for why Earth couldn't host another form of life is that once the life we know became established, it would have eliminated any competition through natural selection. But if another form of life were confined to its own niche, there would be little direct competition with regular life.
Geese are white, crows are black. No argument will change this.
A crucial contribution to the ideological argument. . . it provides a vital part of the intellectual manifesto on which the battle for a better society can be fought
You cannot be sure that you are right unless you understand the arguments against your views better than your opponents do.
Arguments derived from probabilities are idle.
The strongest argument for the un-materialistic character of American life is that we tolerate conditions that are, from a materialistic point of view, intolerable.
I never saw an instance of one or two disputants convincing the other by argument.
My argument has always been that this is not an anti-Bush film, it's a pro-democracy film. And if Bush comes out on the wrong side of democracy, that's his problem.
The strongest of all arguments against the interference of the public with purely personal conduct, is that when it does interfere, the odds are that it interferes wrongly, and in the wrong place.
I do insist on making what I hope is sense so there's always a coherent narrative or argument that the reader can follow.
The purpose of argument is to change the nature of truth.
Even if the absence of evidence for a given god were not evidence of its absence, it would still be evidence that the belief in that god is unreasonable. That's the only proposition that any atheist of any kind has to demonstrate in order to win the argument. Because anything beyond that. . . is just having fun.