Top 100 Good Argument Quotes
#1. A good argument, like a good dialogue, is always a proof of life, but I'd much rather go and read a book.
Ali Smith
#2. People say there are no atheists in foxholes. A lot of people think this is a good argument against atheism. Personally, I think it's a much better argument against foxholes.
Kurt Vonnegut
#3. Many a good argument is ruined by some fool who knows what he is talking about.
Marshall McLuhan
#4. If you want a good argument against democracy, spend five minutes with a voter.
Winston Churchill
#5. Emotions tend to get in the way of a good argument.
Steve Hague
#6. I feel like we're stuck in the former mode of reacting because that's what gains traction in Washington. But I really believe we need a robust public good argument. Net neutrality is not just about creating the next Instagram or Farmville or whatever.
Astra Taylor
#7. People rid the room of argument until they have no one left - except people who agree with them. It is understandable. But I like a good argument.
Bono
#8. If evidence-based policy is to do its job then, it is best to construe evidence widely enough to cover all the facts without which you will not have a good argument.
Nancy Cartwright
#9. Nonsense!" growled the Wolf. "I tell you that it is all the fault of the Government, and if you don't believe me I shall eat you." The Wolf had a thoroughly practical mind, and was never at a loss for a good argument.
Oscar Wilde
#10. The Banh Mi sandwich is really the only good argument for colonialism.
Calvin Trillin
#11. Faith was the excuse you used if you didn't have a good argument.
Robert Fritz
#12. The core of science is not a mathematical modeling
it is intellectual honesty. It is a willingness to have our certainties about the world constrained by good evidence and good argument.
Sam Harris
#13. Whenever you can manoeuvre your characters into a situation where they both have a good argument to make, you're on the right track.
Marc Guggenheim
#15. What makes for a good argument, at bottom, is being more prepared than anyone else in that courtroom, and being willing to fight to tell your client's story - the story of why the right view of the law and my client's interests are one and the same.
Patricia Millett
#17. Every once in awhile, have a really good argument with yourself. I mean really get pissed off. Take both sides. Then look in the mirror, and in the middle of the argument say, "You know, you're a pain in my butt. I'm not arguing with you. Get lost.
Art Hochberg
#18. What we need," he wrote, "is to turn out of colleges young men with ardent convictions on the side of right; not young men who can make a good argument for either right or wrong, as their interest bids them.
Edmund Lester Pearson
#19. I love a good argument and sometimes I have a hard time keeping my mouth shut if I think someone is wrong ... I've always fought for what I believe in, and I don't quit until I have accomplished what I set out to do.
Kenny Wormald
#20. Good argument is intended to persuade another.
Barry Eisler
#21. There's a good argument to be made that companies that are private, where they're run by partnerships, where everybody has true stake in them and they're not playing with other people's money, that by default it's a safer system, because you really have skin in the game. You really own the company.
Andrew Ross Sorkin
#22. I do the same with my books ... Nothing like a good argument in the margins with someone who's already said all they have to say on the subject.
Betsy Cornwell
#23. More words ain't good for anything in the world only to bring on more argument.
Will Rogers
#24. Trust, a sense of humor, and don't let the sun go down on an argument without trying to make it up. That's all I know about good marriage. I've been married a long time - it seems to be working.
Stephen King
#25. Most umpires are good about letting the argument go, but you can only go on for so long, or go so far. If you don't leave it alone after a minute or two, you're in trouble. They want to keep the game moving, so they've got to throw you out. I had trouble leaving it alone, I guess.
Bobby Cox
#26. As an energetic Socialist, I do my best to see the good that is in him, but it's hard. Comrade Bristow's the most striking argument against the equality of man I've ever come across.
P.G. Wodehouse
#28. But it feels good to love a thing and not expect anything back. It feels good to not get an argument or any pushiness or any rumors or any bullshit. It's love without strings. It's ideal.
A.S. King
#29. Ah, that's an argument I hear often," Father Alberto said. "How can a God exist when it seems so many have been forsaken? But you fail to realize, son, without the bad we can't truly appreciate the good.
J.M. Darhower
#30. Those whose cause is just will never lack good arguments.
Euripides
#31. I now add, farther, that the apostle's argument is so far from proving it to be the duty of people to obey, and submit to, such rulers as act in contradiction to the public good, and so to the design of their office, that it proves the direct contrary.
Jonathan Mayhew
#32. My father was a professor of folklore, and my mother was a teacher until she was married. I had a good relationship with them, and the only argument we had was when I went to university and wanted to go into the theater instead of studying to be a lawyer.
Max Von Sydow
#33. Ultimately, however, conflict lies not in objective reality, but in people's heads. Truth is simple one argument - perhaps a good one, perhaps not - for dealing with the difference. The difference itself exists because it exists in their thinking.
Martin Luther
#34. Man is always something worse or something better than an animal; and a mere argument from animal perfection never touches him at all. Thus, in sex no animal is either chivalrous or obscene. And thus no animal invented anything so bad as drunkeness - or so good as drink.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
#35. Workers who come to the U.S. see their wages and their standard of living boosted sharply simply by crossing the border. That's a good thing, and one of the best arguments for immigration reform, even if you'll rarely hear a politician make it.
James Surowiecki
#36. Everybody is struggling for the good things of the world, and all the arguments to prove that they are not desirable are worse than wasted.
Orison Swett Marden
#37. Silence is one of the hardest kind of arguments to refute. There is no good substitute for wisdom; but silence is the best that has yet been discovered.
Josh Billings
#38. History is full of really good stories. That's the main reason I got into this racket: I want to make the argument that history is interesting.
Sarah Vowell
#39. More importantly, one could make the opposite argument to Leithart and Grant--that if good is guaranteed to win, then goodness becomes merely a means to an end rather than an end unto itself.
Joseph Laycock
#40. There is no good arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat.
James Russell Lowell
#41. We may not understand how the spirit works; but the effect of the spirit on the lives of men is there for all to see; and the only unanswerable argument for Christianity is a Christian life. No man can disregard a religion and a faith and a power which is able to make bad men good ...
William Barclay
#42. And I used to assemble the family to hear because I thought that they were so good that even from the point of view of enjoyment people shouldn't miss them, and I got every word of his that I could, and I could see by hard argument there was only the one way for it.
Ruth Pitter
#43. If there is such a simple argument for physicalism, how come everybody hasn't always been a physicalist? That's a good question, and there is a good answer. The 'causal completeness of physics' wasn't widely accepted until recently.
David Papineau
#44. As a philosophy, utilitarianism is the argument you can objectively determine what is the greatest good for the greatest number of people and we need the state to achieve that end.
Stefan Molyneux
#45. Now could thou and I rob the thieves and go merrily to London, it would be argument for a week, laughter for a month, and a good jest forever.
William Shakespeare
#46. For good ideas and true innovation, you need human interaction, conflict, argument, debate.
Margaret Heffernan
#47. I'm not good at precise, coherent argument. But plays are suited to incoherent argument, put into the mouths of fallible people.
Alan Bennett
#48. Galen can't think of anything else he would add to Grom's argument. In fact, he probably wouldn't have been as eloquent; he was about to call the entire thing off and send them back to where they came from. Which is why it is a very good thing that Grom is king instead of Galen.
Anna Banks
#49. The problem of good and evil is not the problem of good and evil, but only the problem of evil. In opposition to good there are evil characters, but there are no good characters in opposition to evil. Evil is arguable, but good is not. Therefore the Devil always wins the argument.
Laura Riding
#50. The strongest argument for socialism is that it sounds good. The strongest argument against socialism is that it doesn't work. But those who live by words will always have a soft spot in their hearts for socialism because it sounds so good.
Thomas Sowell
#51. Note how good you feel after you have encouraged someone else. No other argument is necessary to suggest that never miss the opportunity to give encouragement.
George Burton Adams
#52. I'm a very friendly person, and I think that's had a big impact on my work because I tend to be pretty good with not trying to always win every argument and things like that. I just sort of try to bring a lot of people together to talk.
Jimmy Wales
#53. The argument we always used to use was that keeping records in the catalog was good for people that were coming new to the music, but I think that was talking over a ten year or fifteen year time span.
Evan Parker
#54. If the Mentalese story about the content of thought is true, then there couldn't be a private language argument. Good. That explains why there isn't one. (In Critical Condition, p. 68)
Jerry A. Fodor
#55. I think that there is a strong argument that our [USA's] leadership, our strength, our influence begins with having an economy that is producing good jobs with rising incomes, and I see the connection there.
Hillary Clinton
#56. One argument goes that recessions are good for female artists because when money flies out the window, women are allowed in the house. The other claims that when money ebbs, so do prospects for women.
Jerry Saltz
#57. I let the argument rip healthily between the departments. This is a very good way to finding out the truth.
Winston Churchill
#58. For your own good is a persuasive argument that will eventually make man agree to his own destruction.
Janet Frame
#59. My argument is that War makes rattling good history; but Peace is poor reading.
Thomas Hardy
#60. Nor knowest thou what argument Thy life to thy neighbor's creed has lent. All are needed by each one; Nothing is fair or good alone.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#61. Yes, 85 percent of the art you see isn't any good. But everyone has a different opinion about which 85 percent is bad. That in turn creates fantastically unstable interplay and argument.
Jerry Saltz
#62. My father always used to say, "Don't raise your voice. Improve your argument." Good sense does not always lie with the loudest shouters, nor can we say that a large, unruly crowd is always the best arbiter of what is right.
Desmond Tutu
#63. They dispute not in order to find or even to seek Truth, but for victory, and to appear the more learned and strenuous upholders of a contrary opinion. Such persons should be avoided by all who have not a good breastplate of patience.
Giordano Bruno
#64. I'm having an argument with myself. And I'm losing. So not good.
Cynthia Hand
#65. you, yourself are the only one you answer to, so you better make the argument a good one!
Tracy Lee
#66. Anger is never without an argument, but seldom with a good one.
George Savile
#67. That something can be used for good isn't necessarily a knockdown argument for it.
Paul Bloom
#68. Apparently, we have become such a hyper-individualized culture that it is impossible to develop an argument based on how individual cases fit into the fabric of the common good.
David Brooks
#69. I think fiction isn't so good at being for or against things in general - the rhetorical argument a short story can make is only actualized by the accretion of particular details, and the specificity of these details renders whatever conclusions the story reaches invalid for wider application.
George Saunders
#70. A healthy argument, even with an idiot, is always good; it opens one's eyes to own misunderstandings.
Ashok Kallarakkal
#71. The safety argument against steroids may be a good one, but let's be honest. It isn't the one that motivates most officials and fans to frown on steroids. Steroid use does not just seem risky or unnatural, it seems to disrupt the level playing field.
Alice Dreger
#72. The Left masks its distaste for the Bible's condemnation of homosexuality in a straw man argument that Bible believers are violent bigots. They are not. Citing the Bible doesn't make you a bigot against human beings - it makes you a bigot against sin, which is a good thing.
Ben Shapiro
#73. Let us not become so intense in our zeal to do good by winning arguments or by our pure intention in disputing doctrine that we go beyond good sense and manners, thereby promoting contention, or say and do imprudent things, invoke cynicism, or ridicule with flippancy.
James E. Faust
#74. Good editorial writing has less to do with winning an argument, since the other side is mostly not listening, than with telling the guys on your side how they ought to sound when they're arguing.
Adam Gopnik
#75. If you agree that bringing someone into existence can be bad for that person and if you also accept the argument that bringing someone into existence can't be good for that person, then this leads to a strange conclusion: being born could harm you but it couldn't help you.
Peter Singer
#76. I rehearsed Foucault's argument that the presence of madness on our doorstep is good for us, for it reminds us the life we live is only one among several human possibilities.
Michael Greenberg
#77. There's nothing I like better than a good book discussion with someone who can hold up his end of the argument.
Stephen King
#78. I mean the only thing that is hopefully good about us is after the arguments we can actually still face each other the next day or the day after and talk about something else and sort of get over it.
John Deacon
#79. Reducing every issue to an argument can become stale but it's often a very good way of clarifying issues.
Evan Davis
#80. A moral argument about whether censorship is good or bad deteriorates quickly into accusations about who is more or less patriotic, moral, pious, and so on.
Rebecca MacKinnon
#81. Capital punishment is the source of many an argument, both good and bad.
Marilyn Vos Savant
#82. During Seattle's successful campaign for a $15 an hour minimum wage, our opponents would sometimes roll their eyes and snort, 'If $15 is so good, why not $50?' It was a straw man argument: Nobody was proposing a $50 minimum wage; it would have been too high, and we said so.
Nick Hanauer
#83. An experience teaches only the good observer; but far from seeking a lesson in it, everyone looks for an argument in experience, and everyone interprets the conclusion in his own way.
Andre Gide
#84. When an objection cannot be made formidable, there is some policy in trying to make it frightful; and to substitute the yell and the war-whoop, in the place of reason, argument and good order.
Thomas Paine
#85. A good story should provoke discussion, debate, argument ... and the occasional bar fight.
J. Michael Straczynski
#86. The good, the true, and the beautiful are always their own best argument for themselves - by themselves - and in themselves.
Richard Rohr
#87. What convinces is conviction. Believe in the argument you're advancing. If you don't you're as good as dead. The other person will sense that something isn't there, and no chain of reasoning, no matter how logical or elegant or brilliant, will win your case for you.
Lyndon B. Johnson
#88. Theses officers were good friends, so it must have been a terrible argument, because the one who played chess with my father was so angry that he walked over to the dentist's house and got the dentist out of bed and shot him.
Bruno Schulz
#89. There is only one way to defeat the enemy, and that is to write as well as one can. The best argument is an undeniably good book.
Saul Bellow
#90. Good and happy people who believe in God are the greatest living arguments for God's existence
Dennis Prager
#91. Why do so many frown so sternly at the idea of having fun? Perhaps out of fear that it connotes you aren't serious. But best as we can tell, there is no correlation between appearing to be serious and actually being good at what you do. In fact an argument can be made that the opposite is true.
Steven D. Levitt
#92. Nothing firms up a friendship like a good-natured argument.
Lemony Snicket
#93. A good action is preferable to an argument.
Voltaire
#94. My argument would be that I don't think there is much that's genuinely political art that is good art.
Thom Yorke
#95. While having one's assertions challenged might be bad for an unintelligent man's ego; it sure is good for his intellect.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#96. A good symbol is the best argument, and is a missionary to persuade thousands.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#97. The simple fact is that evil preys on good, and today, good had a bad day. Which brings with it an acceptance of the other side of that argument, that tomorrow might be evil's turn for some rain. And that's called hope.
Cody McFadyen
#98. A flourishing, morally credible media is a vital component in the maintenance of genuinely public talk, argument about common good.
Rowan Williams
#99. An argument can be made - a rigorous, persuasive argument - that every good new thing results from a teeming complexity.
Joshua Wolf Shenk
#100. The number of people that reside on our side will be the determination for a good result. Or a terrible one.
Shannon A. Thompson
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