Top 100 People Argue Quotes
#1. Most people argue over who's right, not about what the truth is.
Bob Saget
#2. I love it when my books cause controversy, when people argue violently about the ending.
Joanne Harris
#3. People argue themselves out of their pleasures
Jude Morgan
#4. When people argue for the existence of a supernatural God who is somewhere else and reaches in on occasion to do a miracle or two, they're skipping over the very world that surrounds us and courses through our veins and lights up the sky right here, right now.
Rob Bell
#5. It's progress I think, that science has joined philosophy, metaphysics & religion as subjects drunk people argue about in bars.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#6. Why do people argue? Even the wisest of men have not found God through argument! Is God a subject for argument?
Sarada Devi
#8. Some people argue we should solve all the problems on Earth before going off the planet, but that's like telling Lewis and Clark to stay put until the rest of the East was settled. No way.
Vint Cerf
#9. Most people argue over beliefs rather than truth.
S.C. Meakin
#10. It's just that the churches have been sleeping for a long time. A lot of people argue that the churches are even dead. I don't believe they're dead, but they've been sleeping, but they, I hope, will wake up, and that's one of my tasks is to make sure they wake up as much as they do before I die.
Cornel West
#11. Some people argue that we should limit choice in favour of good local services. My response is simple: why should we assume those two concepts are mutually exclusive?
John Hutton
#12. Rittner's Computer Law: Never argue with people who write with digital ink and pay by the kilowatt-hour.
Don Rittner
#13. I argue that in a world where people must support their opinions with evidence and reason rather than faith, we would experience less conflict over issues like assisted suicide, gay rights, birth control, and sexual morality.
Jerry A. Coyne
#14. It was always this way: The more people talked, the more they obscured. You didn't need to argue for the truth. You could see it.
Max Barry
#15. The media love coarse debate because coarse debate drives ratings and ratings generate profits. Unless the TV producer happens to be William Shakespeare, an argument is more interesting than a soliloquy - and there will never be a shortage of people willing to argue on TV.
John Sununu
#16. We would make mistakes, we would argue, we would make up. We would lose the people we love and find new ones, and hold our memories close. We would fight for each other, again and again. We would keep living. We were in love.
And we were only human, after all.
Jocelyn Davies
#17. Conferences are assemblies of people who argue about how to conduct an argument and end by sending a telegram of congratulation to the minister.
Pitigrilli
#18. I argue that I don't think it's a moral position to say that civilization is going to collapse, and that's okay. Because that would cause the deaths of billions of people. It's certainly not something I'm willing to accept.
Margaret D. Klein
#19. Is literature more important than hurting people? You can't argue that. You can't say it. It's impossible.
Karl Ove Knausgaard
#20. I look for strong people. I don't like people who'll say yes to everything I might bring up. I want people who can argue and disagree and have a point of view that's reflected in the magazine. My dad believed in the cult of personality. He brought great writers and columnists to 'The Standard.'
Anna Wintour
#21. You want to be a better person? Go listen to someone you disagree with. don't argue with them just listen. It's remarkable what interesting things people will say if you take the time to not be a jerk.
Brandon Sanderson
#22. I'm not going to argue with people about the existence of God. I have not the vaguest idea of whether the universe was created by an intelligence.
Leonard Susskind
#23. Wisdom doesn't mean that you know how to argue things or you fight with people. No, it doesn't mean that. Wisdom means how you take to the good side of everything to enjoy it. This is wisdom and that you avoid all destructive things and take to something constructive.
Nirmala Srivastava
#24. Always argue over text so other people aren't embarrassed!
Kate Beckinsale
#25. There's something magical that happens when people eat from the same pot. The family meal is really the nursery of democracy. It's where we learn to share; it's where we learn to argue without offending. It's just too critical to let go, as we've been so blithely doing.
Michael Pollan
#26. Cade was a vampire. Zach had finally gotten over that. For the most part. Other people could argue about how vampires didn't exist, how they were just relics of folklore and sexual repression and nightmares. Zach had to work with Cade. Denial only got in the way.
Christopher Farnsworth
#27. People do not always argue because they misunderstand one another, they argue because they hold different goals.
William H. Whyte
#28. The worst thing you can do to a filmmaker is to walk out of his film and go, 'That was a nice movie.' But if you can cause people to walk out and then argue about the film on the sidewalk ... I think we're all seeking dissension, and we love to affect an audience.
Paul Haggis
#29. [On her father, Ronald Reagan:] How do you argue with someone who states that the people who are sleeping on the grates of the streets of America 'are homeless by choice'?
Patti Davis
#30. I make it a point never to argue with people for whose opinion I have no respect.
Edward Gibbon
#31. I won't argue with you, but still it's secretly turning me into a hateful person. I figure that the best revenge, though, is to leave people to their own devices, and they will make their own lives hell.
Dee Dee Ramone
#32. You asked the Holy Spirit for a miracle, and now that you've got one you're trying to argue it away. People who don't believe in miracles shouldn't pray for them.
David Wilkerson
#33. People here argue about religion interminably, but it appears that they are competing at the same time to see who can be the least devout.
Charles De Secondat
#34. He would argue with her about killing themselves; and explain how wicked people were; how he could see them making up lies as they passed in the street. He knew all their thoughts, he said; he knew everything. He knew the meaning of the world, he said.
Virginia Woolf
#35. Growing up in Ohio and just being kind of an average guy from flyover country - my dad was a factory guy - I try to put things on a screen that reflect reality. I don't mind if people want to argue with that, or think that's crazy.
Roger Ailes
#36. You really shouldn't sneak up on people in the dark, sir. It isn't gentlemanly." He responded quickly, the deep tenor of his voice sweeping over her. "My apologies. Of course, one might argue that lurking in the darkness isn't exactly ladylike.
Sarah MacLean
#37. You should carefully study the Art of Reasoning, as it is what most people are very deficient in, and I know few things more disagreeable than to argue, or even converse with a man who has no idea of inductive and deductive philosophy.
William John Wills
#38. You shouldn't be worried when people call, communicate, yell, argue, or cry for you. You should be worried when everyone is silent.
Behdad Sami
#39. Are we going to go out and arrest and detain and deport 11 million people? Nobody would argue that that is what we are going to do, because we have never demonstrated the political will to do that, nor have we ever committed the requisite resources to do that.
Luis Gutierrez
#40. People may come along and argue philosophically that they like one better than another; but we have learned from much experience that all philosophical intuitions about what nature is going to do fail.
Richard P. Feynman
#41. I advocate for protecting the liberty of the net, and securing privacy. I argue against people who believe both are somehow given automatically. They're not.
Lawrence Lessig
#42. I don't argue when people say that my message is simple, but I believe Jesus' message was simple.
Joel Osteen
#43. Sometimes it is claimed by those who argue that race is just a social construct that the human genome project shows that because people share roughly 99% of their genes in common, that there are no races. This is silly.
J. Philippe Rushton
#44. Some theologians argue that one kind of grace is better than another, and that some people think they're experiencing "divine" grace when it's actually just "common."
To me, that's like bickering about what color God's eyes are. (They're hazel, in case you were wondering.)
Cathleen Falsani
#45. In the end, we love people into belief. We do not argue them into belief.
Timothy Keller
#46. What I would argue in my defence is that shows like 'Britain's Got Talent' and 'The X Factor' have actually got people more interested in music again and are sending more people into record stores.
Simon Cowell
#47. I recall Ghandi said ultimately all things devolve into the political, but I'd argue that all things devolve into pro-people and anti-people. And I can pose the question, which side are you on?
Stetson Kennedy
#48. Saddam is a war criminal and there are no two people who can argue over this.
Muqtada Al Sadr
#49. The fact is that far more crime and child abuse has been committed by zealots in the name of God, Jesus and Mohammed than has ever been committed in the name of Satan. Many people don't like that statement, but few can argue with it.
Carl Sagan
#50. Civilizations evolve over time, and most scholars of civilization, including people like Carol Quigley, argue that they go through periods of warring states, and eventually evolve into a universal state.
Samuel P. Huntington
#51. The most sensible people to be met with in society are men of business and of the world, who argue from what they see and know, instead of spinning cobweb distinctions of what things ought to be.
William Hazlitt
#52. And now that you have seen a really evil man, you will know how evil they can be and you will go after them to destroy them in order to protect yourself and the people you love. You won't wait to argue about it. You know what they look like now and what they can do to people.
Ian Fleming
#53. You might argue on utilitarian grounds that the best way for the world to work is for everybody to take care of themselves first. And people have made that argument. But I just think we would be so much better off if we could care for distant others even a little bit more.
Paul Bloom
#54. Pan took the joke good-naturedly, probably deciding it wasn't a good idea to argue with a fifteen-year-old who had just pulled two people up ten feet.
Grace Anthony
#55. I never argue with people who say baseball is boring, because baseball is boring. And then, suddenly, it isn't. And that's what makes it great.
Joe Posnanski
#56. I wasn't always a demon.
My name is Maggie Frew, and I grew up a simple human girl in suburban Iowa. I don't carry a pitchfork, or have a forked tail. I'm not a creature from Hell. I'm a political campaign manager. Though, I guess some people might argue those are the same thing.
Patricia Murphy
#57. In their thought-provoking book Focus, researchers Tory Higgins and Heidi Grant Halvorson argue that people lean toward being "promotion-focused" or "prevention-focused" in their aims.
Gretchen Rubin
#58. It was useless to argue, she thought, and to wonder about people who would neither refute an argument nor accept it.
Ayn Rand
#59. Its not a good idea to argue with ignorant people but sometime ignorance can't be ignored
Adnan Safi
#60. Everyone thinks they have good taste, but most people do not have good taste. In fact, I'd argue that most people have terrible taste. When left to their own devices - literally their own devices - they read crap and they don't know the difference.
Gabrielle Zevin
#61. There is no such thing as an impartial jury because there are no impartial people. There are people that argue on the web for hours about who their favorite character on 'Friends' is.
Jon Stewart
#62. Beauty is on one level pure surface, and on the other hand, it's the most complex subject that we can touch upon because it says everything about us as people. It's a subject we very quickly begin to argue about. I think that's so interesting.
Nicolas Winding Refn
#63. I think I can keep a rhythm to a beat, but there are quite a few people who would argue with me.
Matthew McConaughey
#64. People like me prove that you can survive without romance, even though you end up a bit unbalanced and you tend to argue with your own reflection.
Steven Morrissey
#65. While silly ni**as argue over who gon' snatch the crown / Look around my ni**a, white people have snatched the sound / This year I'll probably go to the awards dappered down / Watch Iggy win a Grammy as I try to crack a smile.
J. Cole
#66. You can argue whether it's right or wrong,' says Halfon about the scrapping of Connexions, 'and yes I believe we should be balancing the economy, but nevertheless the think-tank people never consider how it actually impacts on the front, although they do create an intellectual framework.
Owen Jones
#67. My attitude toward progress has passed from antagonism to boredom. I have long ceased to argue with people who prefer Thursday to Wednesday because it is Thursday.
G.K. Chesterton
#68. Whether you're the best lawyer ...
Or the greatest philosopher ...
There will alway be at least two people that you can never win any argument with ...
Your child ...
And your wife ...
So don't argue with them ...
Just love them ...
Nelson M. Lubao
#69. Colonial governors and senior civil servants are not easy people to argue with, and I was not popular because of my criticism of the colonial service in Kenya.
Louis Leakey
#70. Buzz Aldrin said something on the moon about a soft landing before 'stage-aware' Neil Armstrong said, "Houston, the Eagle has landed". People still argue about what the first words were on the moon.
Ray Palla
#71. I'm sure people would argue this, but I want to be different in everything I do. I don't think I've been the same in anything I've done, and I want to keep that up.
Nick Frost
#72. I can't argue that Finnick isn't one of the most stunning, sensuous people on the planet.
But I can honestly say he's never been attractive to me. Maybe he's too pretty, or maybe he's too easy to get, or maybe it's really that he'd just be
too easy to lose.
Suzanne Collins
#73. People have lots of misconceptions about me. My mum, who is half French and half Spanish, gets outraged when I'm called quintessentially English. I owe my looks to my mum-which was 90 percent of getting my first job. And, some people would argue, 90 percent of my entire career.
Helena Bonham Carter
#74. It would be folly to argue that the people cannot make political mistakes. They can and do make grave mistakes. They know it, they pay the penalty, but compared with the mistakes which have been made by every kind of autocracy they are unimportant.
Calvin Coolidge
#75. What matters most: passion or competence that was born in? Berkshireis full of people who have a peculiar passion for their own business. I would argue passion is more important than brain power.
Charlie Munger
#76. Never argue with people who buy ink by the gallon ...
Tommy Lasorda
#77. I liked making people laugh, and I decided I was an atheist early on. My Dad was all right with that. We argued about it all the time, but it was good-natured. He was the most open-minded human being I've ever known.
Dave Barry
#78. It is more a mentality than the actual places people live, as Jefferson and Hamilton would argue about - city versus country. For example, someone could have an empty place mentality yet be living in a condo in Boca Raton.
Gail Collins
#79. Smaller movies are great because you don't have to argue with so many people all the time. But really I like arguing so there's a balance either way.
Robert Pattinson
#80. We're always going to argue about abortion. It's a hard choice and it's controversial, and that's why I'm pro-choice, because I want people to make their own choices.
Hillary Clinton
#81. How you can argue with those who whip, stone and murder people because they wanted to live their life?
M.F. Moonzajer
#82. It's precisely their diseases that people pride themselves on, and I do-more perhaps than anybody else. Let's not argue; my objection was absurd. But that aside, I am firmly convinced that not only excess of consciousness, but any consciousness at all is a disease.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#83. The best movies have one sentence that they're exploring, a thesis, something that people can argue about over dinner afterward.
Helen Hunt
#84. I would argue that play is an essential part of living. It's the process by which great discoveries are made, industries are built, and people fall in love. The instinctive human drive toward play continuously pushes us to find new ways to understand and influence the world around us.
John Ferrara
#85. Never argue with a fool, people might not notice the difference
Niq Mhlongo
#86. Silence isn't always agreement. Sometimes people no longer argue because they no longer care.
Joyce Rachelle
#87. In Scotland, when people congregate, they tend to argue and discuss and reason; in Orkney, they tell stories.
George Mackay Brown
#88. Fat people are brilliant in bed. If I'm sitting on top of you, who's going to argue?
Jo Brand
#89. It's far more "normal" and even logical for people to get along with one another than it is for them to argue, fight and not get along. The irony is that society has conditioned us to be afraid of each other - to set up boundaries between ourselves and others
Anonymous
#90. If we had a starting XI that no one could argue about it wouldn't say a lot for English football. We'd probably be on a downward spiral. It's good that people have different ideas about who should play.
Rio Ferdinand
#91. No one could ever argue with me about people in show business being kind of nice.
Desi Arnaz
#92. I've been involved in social activism my entire life, and I would argue that many people involved in social activist movements have done very little work on themselves.
Eve Ensler
#93. I'd argue that people today aren't rejecting Christ so much as they're rejecting the church.
Craig Groeschel
#94. On a Chinese film you just give orders, no one questions you. Here, you have to convince people, you have to tell them why you want to do it a certain way, and they argue with you. Democracy.
Ang Lee
#95. We live in a world in which people can do unbelievably beautiful or unbelievably horrible things to other people. And if those horrible acts argue against the existence of God, then the beautify acts must argue for God's existence.
Dennis Prager
#96. It has never made any sense to argue that, unique among the people of the world, Arabs are more concerned on a day-to-day basis about the treatment of people they don't know than they are about how they're going to put food on their own tables, or whether their sons will ever find a job.
John Podhoretz
#97. A state rep in Oklahoma gave a horrific speech where she felt the homosexual agenda was a greater threat to America than terrorism. People like this - there's not hate in their hearts. They believe what they believe because of the book that they prescribe to. You can't argue with these people.
Leslie Jordan
#98. People in New Orleans really care about food, care about it passionately, can spend hours arguing over whether Antoine's is better than Galatoire's or the other way around ... in New Orleans, there is basically nothing to do but eat and then argue about it.
Nora Ephron
#99. He waited patiently until the uproar had died away. It was amazing, he thought, how people would argue against figures on no better basis than 'they must be wrong'.
Terry Pratchett
#100. Don't argue for other people's weaknesses. Don't argue for your own. When you make a mistake, admit it, correct it, and learn from it / immediately.
Stephen R. Covey
