Implements of war and subjugation are the last arguments to which kings resort.
How beggarly appear arguments before a defiant deed!
Once you've created a connection of empathy, rational arguments can play a supportive role.
It is one thing to persuade, another to command; one thing to press with arguments, another with penalties.
No one in the final analysis really fails to become a Christian because of lack of arguments; he fails to become a Christian because he loves darkness rather than light and wants nothing to do with God.
Abstract: Careful review of a vast array of relevant evidence clearly leads to the conclusion that some unidentified flying objects are intelligently controlled vehicles whose origin is outside our solar system. All the arguments against the extraterrestrial origin seem to be based upon false reasoning, misrepresentation of evidence, neglect of relevant information, ignorance of relevant technology, or pseudo sophisticated assumptions about alien appearance, motivation, or government secrecy. . .
Those who plead their cause in the absence of an opponent can invent to their heart's content, can pontificate without taking into account the opposite point of view and keep the best arguments for themselves, for aggressors are always quick to attack those who have no means of defence.
Arguments can always be found to turn desire into policy.
For they are yet ear-kissing arguments.
Jesus did not get stuck in intellectual arguments with people. He did not go for the intellect; He went for the conscience. He spoke to that part of the person that knows the difference between right and wrong instinctively.
It is not a sensible or intelligent response for us in Europe to ridicule American arguments and parody their political leadership.
Some of my understanding of what philosophy and ethics is has changed very slowly. One thing that has changed is this for quite a long time I bought-into the idea that philosophy is basically about arguments. I'm increasingly of the view that it isn't. The most interesting things in philosophy aren't arguments. The thing that I think is underestimated is what I call a form of attending. I think that philosophy is at least as much about carefully attending to things as it is about the structure of arguments.
What use are the best of arguments when they can be destroyed by force?
The continual intrusion into our minds of the hammering noises of arguments and propaganda can lead to two kinds of reactions. It may lead to apathy and indifference, the I-don't-care reaction, or to a more intensified desire to study and to understand. Unfortunately, the first reaction is the more popular one.
The more arguments you win, the less friends you will have
We don't have ways of resolving the arguments in idea meritocratic way.
I am not a person of opinions because I feel the counter arguments too strongly.
Several of them would have protested if they could have found the right arguments.
In these troubled times we live in, we should remain vigilant and see through populist arguments.
To invoke solely the weaker arguments and yet triumph is an art worth more than a hundred thousand drachmae.