Quotes About Ad Hominem

#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. Political correctness will die as it lived - kicking and screaming ad hominem abuse as a substitute for arguments.

Wendy McElroy

#3. I love insults, devastating takedowns, things that could be described by Twitter hacks as 'shots fired,' and funny ad hominem attacks.

Alex Pareene

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

Richard Dawkins

#5. Associational ad hominem attacks remain the left's favorite rhetorical strategy for undermining opponents.

Jonah Goldberg

#6. 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

#7. I've never been in a 'Twitter fight,' though I've witnessed my fair share. I do enjoy vigorous and informed debate, but the benefit is lost when the exchange becomes a series of petty ad hominem attacks. I don't see much value in it.

James G. Stavridis

#8. One of the many drawbacks of this "I teach what I am" approach is that it stifles classroom discussion. Any disagreement with the professor's expertise comes off as an ad hominem attack.

Maureen Corrigan

#9. The colossal might of wickedness: how we love to locate it massively elsewhere. But so much of it comes down to what each one of us does between breakfast and bedtime.

Gregory Maguire

#10. The heart is an organ of fire and you can't stop it from feeling or connecting.

J.H. Wyman

#11. Because men have so long ruled the world, it does not follow that the philosophy by which they have ruled it is the correct one.

Dora Russell

#12. Indeed, not all attacks - especially the bitter and ridiculing kind leveled at Darwin - are offered in good faith, but for practical purposes it is good policy to assume that they are.

Hans Selye

#13. Watching a film should feel like you just tore a hole out of the air and the void caught fire.

Josh Fox

#14. Why lie, Robert? Why lie? You know that lying is the alcoholics kryptonite, you can't afford it, the reasonable voice in his head screamed.

Gudjon Bergmann

#15. When you're a kid, somebody's mid-forties, you think they're an old man. Then you grow up and it's like, I was a kid.

Billy Bob Thornton

#16. I type like I live: fast, with a lot of mistakes!

Anne Ullah

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

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#18. Expansion means complexity and complexity decay.

C. Northcote Parkinson

#19. The normal food of man is vegetable.

Charles Darwin

#20. I would never do anything to undermine my husband's point of view.

Laura Bush

#21. My MS is not your MS and your MS is weird...

Yvonne DeSousa

#22. Frodo could not be a hero unless he was born into a story with many chapters already played out before his own. His moment derives its weight and urgency from the moments that have come before.

John Eldredge

#23. I feel that audiences are very sophisticated, and part of my challenge is to keep them engaged because they are so complex.

Chiwetel Ejiofor