The main point for me is moral; animals are sentient beings. I know for some this is a hard argument to accept, but we’re not built to eat a lot of meat. – Grace Slick
The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor. – H. L. Mencken
I do insist on making what I hope is sense so there’s always a coherent narrative or argument that the reader can follow. – Howard Nemerov
The argument about zoning and the presidency of Nigeria is like the philosophical argument of the egg or the hen. Who is older through the evolutionary process, who came first? – Goodluck Jonathan
An argument fatal to the communist theory, is suggested by the fact, that a desire for property is one of the elements of our nature. – Herbert Spencer
There is a definite argument to be made that videogames are becoming an art form put together by artists of different types. – John Romero
I became the stage for the great argument between Nietzsche and Rousseau. I was the extra ready to take on all the roles. – Jacques Derrida
My wife Mary and I have been married for forty-seven years and not once have we had an argument serious enough to consider divorce; murder, yes, but divorce, never. – Jack Benny
As set forth by theologians, the idea of ‘God’ is an argument that assumes its own conclusions, and proves nothing. – Johann Most
I think the biggest mistake I made was this wretched ability to see both sides of an argument. – John Major
Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony. – Jane Austen
They believed that Britain was in Ireland defending their own interests, therefore the Irish had the right to use violence to put them out. My argument was that that type of thinking was out of date. – John Hume
I hate this argument that says little Britain or something outside, or Britain is part of a wider Europe. We can both be within our trading relationships within Europe but we can also be a fantastic global trader. – Iain Duncan Smith
We are told that the possession of nuclear weapons – in some cases even the testing of these weapons – is essential for national security. But this argument can be made by other countries as well. – Joseph Rotblat
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
There is no good in arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat. – James Russell Lowell
In Argument A rose is an argument. It proclaims the triumph of beauty over brutality, of gentleness over violence, of the ephemeral over the lasting, and of the universal over the particular. The same rose bursts into bloom on the North Cape and in the Sahara desert. – Alain Meilland
He who wants to persuade should put his trust not in the right argument, but in the right word. The power of sound has always been greater than the power of sense. – Joseph Conrad
I later spent… five to eight months in hospitals in New Jersey, always on an involuntary basis, and always attempting a legal argument for release. – John Forbes Nash, Jr.
A long-running argument exists over whether Christians and Muslims worship the same God. In my view, they certainly do. – Jay Parini
I didn’t do too well until my second year, when I realized that there were no right or wrong answers and that my professors were interested only in how well I could develop an argument. – Joe Jamail
It depends on the situation. I mean, on one hand there’s the argument that people should be left alone on the other hand, there’s the argument to wade in a stop slaughters in places like Bosnia and Kosovo and what we probably should have done in Rwanda. – Jello Biafra
I don’t accept at all the quite popular argument that the press is responsible for the monarchy’s recent troubles. The monarchy’s responsible for the monarchy’s recent troubles. To blame the press is the old thing of blaming the messenger for the message. – Anthony Holden
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
The difficult part in an argument is not to defend one’s opinion but rather to know it. – Andre Maurois
This is the heart of my argument: We can put more pressure on the antagonist for whom we show human concern. – Barbara Deming
I passionately believe that’s it’s not just what you say that counts, it’s also how you say it – that the success of your argument critically depends on your manner of presenting it. – Alain de Botton
If I’m in a political argument, I think I can, with reasonable accuracy and without boasting, put the other person’s side of the case at least as well as they could. One has to be able to say that in any well-conducted argument. – Christopher Hitchens
