Best Debate Quotes to Inspire, Uplift & Motivate You Every Day

“I'll stop eating steak when you stop killing spiders." Absurdity: comparing cows to spiders. Arachnids are pure evil. They're like a cigarette manufacturer or a terrorist. They're organized religion on eight legs.”

“The clash of ideas is not weakness.Truth reaches its place when tussling with error.”

“It always seems as though the definition of love will remain debatable by an opinionated world.”

“Speak with caution. Even if someone forgives harsh words you've spoken, they may be too hurt to ever forget them. Don't leave a legacy of pain and regret of things you never should have said.”

“In all debates, let truth be thy aim, not victory, or an unjust interest.”

“Let's say that the consensus is that our species, being the higher primates, Homo Sapiens, has been on the planet for at least 100,000 years, maybe more. Francis Collins says maybe 100,000. Richard Dawkins thinks maybe a quarter-of-a-million. I'll take 100,000. In order to be a Christian, you have to believe that for 98,000 years, our species suffered and died, most of its children dying in childbirth, most other people having a life expectancy of about 25 years, dying of their teeth. Famine, struggle, bitterness, war, suffering, misery, all of that for 98,000 years.”

“Sometimes silence is a sign, not of not knowing what to say, but of knowing when to say what you know.”

“Each mind conceives god in its own way. There may be as many variation of the god figure as there are people in the world”

“All religions are man-made; God has not yet revealed himself beyond doubt to anybody.”

“About once or twice every month I engage in public debates with those whose pressing need it is to woo and to win the approval of supernatural beings. Very often, when I give my view that there is no supernatural dimension, and certainly not one that is only or especially available to the faithful, and that the natural world is wonderful enough—and even miraculous enough if you insist—I attract pitying looks and anxious questions. How, in that case, I am asked, do I find meaning and purpose in life? How does a mere and gross materialist, with no expectation of a life to come, decide what, if anything, is worth caring about?”

“There's more to logic than identifying logical fallacies.”

“Those who make conversations impossible, make escalation inevitable.”

“If you've got the truth you can demonstrate it. Talking doesn't prove it.”