Ad Hominem Attacks Quotes

Disagree with someone on the right and he is likely to think you obtuse, wrong, foolish, a dope. Disagree with someone on the left and he is more likely to think you selfish, a sell-out, insensitive, possibly evil.

Illogical thinkers throw names and slurs around because they have no arguments with which to rebut their opponents. Rational people have to keep hammering their points home.

If you attempt an actual argument with a modern paper of opposite politics, you will have no answer except slanging or silence.

Before impugning an opponent's motives, even when they legitimately may be impugned, answer his arguments.

He who slings mud generally loses ground.

I'm not very impressed by people who yell "traitor" and "communist" and other less printable things. I don't like it.

Why is it that when political ammunition runs low, inevitably the rusty artillery of abuse is always wheeled into action?

I'm afraid that's in the nature of modern politics - it's as much conducted by abuse as argument.

When all else fails the liberals call you names or attack your personality.

People who are against me attack me personally. They attack the way I look physically, they attack the way I dress, they attack everything but what I say.

So much of modern politics is focused not on honest differences of policy but on personal attacks.

If you can somehow force a liberal into a point-counterpoint argument, his retorts will bear no relation to what you’ve said - unless you were in fact talking about your looks, your age, your weight, your personal obsessions, or whether you are a fascist. In the famous liberal two-step, they leap from one idiotic point to the next, so you can never nail them. It’s like arguing with someone with Attention Deficit Disorder.

When they can't win a debate (can they ever?), leftists deploy what the late novelist/philosopher Ayn Rand called the argument from intimidation. Instead of trying to refute the other side, they label their opponents' position evil, attribute sinister motives to its adherents, and charge that its proponents are encouraging violence.

For an office-seeker [candidate], sticks and stones are greatly to be preferred to an adhesive adjective.

I've learned that sometimes when people don't like what you have to say, and don't want to debate you on ideas, it's just easier to call you a dumb blonde from Fox News.