#argument

I can win an argument on any topic, against any opponent. People know this, and steer clear of me at parties. Often, as a sign of their great respect, they don't even invite me. ↗

— Dave Barry

#respect #respect

Why do people always assume that volume will succeed when logic won’t? - Damon ↗

— L.J. Smith

#damon #elena #fiction #romance #vampire

Arguing with anonymous strangers on the Internet is a sucker's game because they almost always turn out to be—or to be indistinguishable from—self-righteous sixteen-year-olds possessing infinite amounts of free time. ↗

— Neal Stephenson

#trolls #free

It's often a bad sign when people defend themselves against charges which haven't been made. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#defensiveness #noam-chomsky #september- #iraq

When a man who is drinking neat gin starts talking about his mother he is past all argument. ↗

— C.S. Forester

#argument #drinking #gin #mothers #alcohol

You know the green grifters have no argument when they start raising the 'no blood for oil' cry on the blogs. Excuse me, if Obama's make-sure-your-tires-are-properly-inflated administration would simply allow more energy production here in the U.S., that wouldn't be a problem very long, would it? ↗

— Howie Carr

#allow #argument #blogs #blood #cry

The argument for getting our own house in order is not an argument for turning our back on the world. We cannot and should not do that. ↗

— Chris Christie

#back #cannot #getting #house #order

Any political agenda and organization which doesn't begin with personal responsibility is just half the argument. It's just not going to succeed. ↗

— Peter Coyote

#any #argument #begin #going #half

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

#became #between #extra #great #i

The argument of the strongest is always the best. ↗