"It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them."

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"You never need an argument against the use of violence, you need an argument for it."

Noam Chomsky, American Activist

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"A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments."

Georg C. Lichtenberg, German Physicist

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"It's not about whether or not someone is a bigot, but whether or not the argument which that someone is arguing is worth being a bigot about."

Criss Jami, American Philosopher

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"We go round and round trying to convince one another that our opinion makes more sense. And the only winner is time for making us look like fools by wasting it."

S. A. Tawks, British Author

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"You take the words in the sense which is most damaging to the argument."

Plato, Greek Philosopher

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"What convinces is conviction. Believe in the argument you're advancing. If you don't you're as good as dead. The other person will sense that something isn't there, and no chain of reasoning, no matter how logical or elegant or brilliant, will win your case for you."

Lyndon B. Johnson, American President

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"Most of the arguments to which I am party fall somewhat short of being impressive, knowing to the fact that neither I nor my opponent knows what we are talking about."

Rodney Dangerfield, American Comedian

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"The conservative argument is that the economy is like the weather, that it just operates automatically."

Sidney Blumenthal, American Journalist

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

Baltasar Gracian, Spanish Philosopher

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"They believed that Britain was in Ireland defending their own interests, therefore the Irish had the right to use violence to put them out. My argument was that that type of thinking was out of date."

John Hume, Irish Politician

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"You never need an argument against the use of violence, you need an argument for it."

"A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments."

"It's not about whether or not someone is a bigot, but whether or not the argument which that someone is arguing is worth being a bigot about."

"We go round and round trying to convince one another that our opinion makes more sense. And the only winner is time for making us look like fools by wasting it."

"You take the words in the sense which is most damaging to the argument."

"What convinces is conviction. Believe in the argument you're advancing. If you don't you're as good as dead. The other person will sense that something isn't there, and no chain of reasoning, no matter how logical or elegant or brilliant, will win your case for you."

"Most of the arguments to which I am party fall somewhat short of being impressive, knowing to the fact that neither I nor my opponent knows what we are talking about."

"The conservative argument is that the economy is like the weather, that it just operates automatically."

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

"They believed that Britain was in Ireland defending their own interests, therefore the Irish had the right to use violence to put them out. My argument was that that type of thinking was out of date."

Explore more quotes by Pierre Beaumarchais

"As long as I don't write about the government, religion, politics, and other institutions, I am free to print anything."

"I quickly laugh at everything for fear of having to cry."

"Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough."

"Drinking when we are not thirsty and making love at all seasons, madam: that is all there is to distinguish us from other animals."

"I hasten to laugh at everything, for fear of being obliged to weep."

"Because you are a great lord, you believe yourself to be a great genius. You took the trouble to be born, but no more."

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"It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them."