ARGUMENTS in Classic Quotes

1  There was a long, nagging argument that went round and round, with shouts, whines, tears, remonstrances, bargainings.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 7

2  He knew, or he could imagine, the arguments which proved his own nonexistence; but they were nonsense, they were only a play on words.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: Chapter 2

3  But this statement, which to an orthodox ear merely conveyed a self-evident absurdity, could not have been sustained by reasoned argument, because the necessary words were not available.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: Chapter 7-APPENDIX

4  His heart sank as he thought of the enormous power arrayed against him, the ease with which any Party intellectual would overthrow him in debate, the subtle arguments which he would not be able to understand, much less answer.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 7

5  It includes the power of not grasping analogies, of failing to perceive logical errors, of misunderstanding the simplest arguments if they are inimical to Ingsoc, and of being bored or repelled by any train of thought which is capable of leading in a heretical direction.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 9

6  But there were other days when they settled down to their work almost eagerly, making a tremendous show of entering up their minutes and drafting long memoranda which were never finished--when the argument as to what they were supposedly arguing about grew extraordinarily involved and abstruse, with subtle haggling over definitions, enormous digressions, quarrels--threats, even, to appeal to higher authority.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: Chapter 6