Hominem Argument Quotes

#1. We all resort to the ad hominem from time to time: in human affairs, it is difficult to avoid it, and probably not desirable. After all, our opponents are human. The proper use of an ad hominem argument, however, still requires evidence to back it up.

Theodore Dalrymple

#2. Bitches,' Mr. Hammar says from atop his horse.
'Your analysis' was not asked for, Seargeant,' says the Mayor.

Patrick Ness

#3. There is no question that there is a capability that the Internet affords us to get a closer look at the customer and to be closer to the customer.

Richard Hayne

#4. Intellect is the virtue of ignoring one's emotions' attempt to contaminate one's opinions.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#5. I shall not make an argument ad hominem. My argument is ad bullshitem.

Richard Dawkins

#6. Today we no longer fear technology. It's no longer a question of assimilation. What remains to be seen is what we are about to become.

Jason Heller

#7. A women loves you not for the things you do for her, but for the things she does for you.

Shepherd Mead

#8. The world I want to live in is a world where everybody is a bit more uncertain about their arguments and is a bit more open to other people's arguments. I think that we can engage ideas without ad hominem attacks.

Adam Davidson

#9. Advice, the smallest current coin.

Ambrose Bierce

#10. People over forty can seldom be permanently convinced of anything. At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#11. strung a small white stone with a hole in it. 'This is more precious

Juliet Marillier

#12. And people in America are very practical people across the political spectrum. Very conservative women want their kids, their daughters taking birth control.

Howard Dean