Expediency may tip the scales when arguments are nicely balanced.
Benjamin Nathan Cardozo
We are not won by arguments that we can analyse, but by tone and temper, by the manner which is the man himself.
Samuel Butler
Great novelists are philosopher-novelists who write in images instead of arguments.
Albert Camus
All the arguments to prove man's superiority cannot shatter this hard fact: in suffering the animals are our equals.
Peter Singer
Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
William Penn
I like to do all the talking myself. It saves time, and prevents arguments.
Oscar Wilde
We should not be surprised that we find meaningless noises in the foundation of many old philosophies, and that from them arise most of the old philosophical fights and arguments.
Alfred Korzybski
Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.
Milton Friedman
A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear. The traitor is the plague.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Do not let arguments of expediency persuade you. That is the slow road to oblivion. That is the tortured path to undoing step by step, bit by bit, as the river creates a canyon, the way of life that we love.
Charles Schumer
If the noble and the sacred cannot find serious expression in democracy, its choiceworthiness becomes questionable. These are the arguments, the special pleading of the reactionaries, the disinherited of the ancien rgime.
Allan David Bloom
The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it.
George Bernard Shaw
Men's arguments often prove nothing but their wishes.
Charles Caleb Colton
Arguments over grammar and style are often as fierce as those over IBM versus Mac, and as fruitless as Coke versus Pepsi and boxers versus briefs.
Jack Lynch
A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments.
Georg C. Lichtenberg