#argument

Don't take the wrong side of an argument just because your opponent has taken the right side. ↗

— Baltasar Gracian

#because #just #just because #opponent #right

I think it's a little simplistic to explain a work through the psychology of its author. In other words, that Haneke has emotional problems, so I don't have to take his films seriously. By using this argument, the viewer retreats from the challenges of the film. ↗

— Michael Haneke

#author #challenges #emotional #explain #film

My argument is that War makes rattling good history; but Peace is poor reading. ↗

— Thomas Hardy

#good #history #makes #peace #poor

The most important thing in an argument, next to being right, is to leave an escape hatch for your opponent, so that he can gracefully swing over to your side without too much apparent loss of face. ↗

— Sydney J. Harris

#argument #being #escape #face #gracefully

The secular argument, or the liberal argument, is to as much as possible remove taboos so things do not become unmentionable; to let some air into the discussion. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#argument #become #discussion #into #liberal

There are all kinds of stupid people that annoy me but what annoys me most is a lazy argument. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#annoys #argument #kinds #lazy #me

The argument on the other side of special rights is completely bogus. It's bogus because you could make exactly the same claim about racial or ethnic or religious minorities. ↗

— Tom Allen

#argument #because #bogus #claim #completely

For the sake of argument and illustration I will presume that certain articles of ordinary diet, however beneficial in youth, are prejudicial in advanced life, like beans to a horse, whose common ordinary food is hay and corn. ↗

— William Banting

#argument #articles #beans #beneficial #certain

Euclid taught me that without assumptions there is no proof. Therefore, in any argument, examine the assumptions. ↗

— E. T. Bell

#argument #assumptions #euclid #examine #me

Behind every argument is someone's ignorance. ↗

— Robert Benchley

#behind #every #ignorance #someone