#argument

I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left. ↗

— Margaret Thatcher

#argument #attack #because #cheer #i

The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress. ↗

— Joseph Joubert

#argument #discussion #progress #should #victory

Is it possible to covet a much longer life for one's self and be as devoted to the well-being of the next generation? It's a long argument. ↗

— Leon Kass

#covet #devoted #generation #life #long

It's all very boring to say that we get along great and all that and sometimes we mock up come aggravation to make it interesting but the truth of it is that we get along so well we've never had an argument. ↗

— Dave Edmunds

#along #argument #boring #come #get

Of course poets have morals and manners of their own, and custom is no argument with them. ↗

— Thomas Hardy

#course #custom #manners #morals #own

Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience. ↗

— Rebecca West

#argument #art #artist #audience #authentic

No sensible man ever engages, unprepared, in a fencing match of words with a woman. ↗

— Wilkie Collins

#dispute #empowerment #men #superiority #wit

Don't bother to argue anything on the Internet. And I mean, ANYTHING.... The most innocuous, innocent, harmless, basic topics will be misconstrued by people trying to deconstruct things down to the sub-atomic level and entirely miss the point.... Seriously. Keep peeling the onion and you get no onion. ↗

— Vera Nazarian

#arguing #argument #communication #debate #discourse

I had become too accustomed to the pseudo-Left new style, whereby if your opponent thought he had identified your lowest possible motive, he was quite certain that he had isolated the only real one. This vulgar method, which is now the norm and the standard in much non-Left journalism as well, is designed to have the effect of making any noisy moron into a master analyst. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#argumentation #fallacy #journalism #leftism #design

Kenny, when's the last time you had a physical," Roddy asks. "What're you...the designated driver of my life?" "Mad Dog House ↗

— Mark Rubinstein

#friction-between-partners #design