Quotes about debate
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Did you ever notice how difficult it is to argue with someone who is not obsessed with being right?
Arguing is really saying, “If you were really more like me, then I could like you better.”
Douglas Adams1952–2001The Salmon of Doubt (2002)Elinor agreed to it all, for she did not think he deserved the compliment of rational opposition.
“To yield without conviction is no compliment to the understanding of either.”
Edmund Burke1729–1797Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790), Volume iii, p. 453They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.
Edmund Burke1729–1797Speech on the Independence of Parliament (1780)
Dale Carnegie1888–1955How to Win Friends and Influence People (1936).
Agatha Christie1890–1976The Mystery of the Blue Train (1928), Hercule PoirotJust as war is freedom’s cost, disagreement is freedom’s privilege.
My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.
At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.
