#argument

He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

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But, you know, there's still an argument, there's still ten states that outlaw premarital sex, and many more states where adultery is still outlawed and a crime. ↗

— Liam Neeson

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The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#argument #condition #existence #irrationality #rather

The most convincing argument against early parenthood is that you are in a relationship that is likely to fall apart before that child grows up. ↗

— Tony Parsons

#apart #argument #before #child #convincing

Be part of the solution and answer to the problem versus part of the problem and continuing argument around it. ↗

— David Pratt

#argument #around #continuing #part #problem

The argument that the two parties should represent opposed ideals and policies, one, perhaps, of the Right and the other of the Left, is a foolish idea acceptable only to doctrinaire and academic thinkers. ↗

— Carroll Quigley

#acceptable #argument #doctrinaire #foolish #idea

People's minds are changed through observation and not through argument. ↗

— Will Rogers

#changed #minds #observation #people #through

The methods of peace propaganda which aim at establishing peace doctrine by argument and by creating a feeling favorable to peace in general seem to fall short of reaching the springs of human action and of dealing with the causes of the conduct which they seek to modify. ↗

— Elihu Root

#aim #argument #causes #conduct #creating

Observe which side resorts to the most vociferous name-calling and you are likely to have identified the side with the weaker argument and they know it. ↗

— Charles R. Anderson

#identified #know #likely #most #observe

Preaching is to much avail, but practice is far more effective. A godly life is the strongest argument you can offer the skeptic. ↗

— Hosea Ballou

#avail #effective #far #godly #life