Quotes About Discourse

Problematic' is one of these meaningless jargon words that people on the internet outrage circles throw at one another.

You have to learn to have discourse with people you don't necessarily agree with.

As I say, I'm a discourse advocate. What form it comes is less important to me than the fact that there is discourse.

Politics isn't something that really interested me; I, of course, care about what's going on in the world, but so much of political discourse now is not necessarily about doing what's right.

With sociolinguistics, after covering the basics of the field, I focused on discourse analysis.

It's a classic error in American discourse: the conflation of race with culture.

If you have a society where a large section believe they are not part of the political discourse, that is a situation for trouble.

There is no civil discourse left and it is really sad.

I believe that we will elevate and differentiate the discourse of cinema the more we discuss image creation in specific terms.

There is that lovely feeling of one reader telling another, 'You must read this.' I've always wanted to write a book like that, with the sense that you are contributing to the discourse in middle America, a discourse that begins at a book club in a living room, but then spreads. That is meaningful to me.

It is inappropriate to discuss matters of business, pleasure or current events in the temple.

There is nothing in discourse that is not to be found in a sentence.

that ambiguous area of culture where something unfailingly political, though separate from the political choices of the day, infiltrates judgment and language.

The lover's discourse is usually a smooth envelope which encases the Image, a very gentle glove around the loved being.

The dream: to know a foreign language yet not to understand it: to perceive the difference in it without that difference ever being recuperated by the superficial sociality of discourse, communication or vulgarity... to undo our own "reality" under the effect of other formulations, other syntaxes... in a word, to descend into the untranslatable.

Man has much power of discourse which for the most part is vain and false; animals have but little, but it is useful and true, and a small truth is better than a great lie.

Man discourseth greatly, and his discourse is for the greater part empty and false; the discourse of animals is small, but useful and true: slender certainty is better than portentous falsehood.

The great thing about human language is that it prevents us from sticking to the matter at hand.

In order to have a society in which public issues can be openly and vigorously debated, it is not necessary to allow the brutalization of innocent victims.

It's difficult for a society to have a healthy discourse on its future when people are afraid to gather to express themselves and authorities won't allow it.

The poet's spoken discourse often depends on a mystique, on the spiritual freedom that finds itself enslaved on earth.

But my main concern isn't to defend science from the barbarian hordes of lit crit (we'll survive just fine, thank you). Rather, my concern is explicitly political: to combat a currently fashionable postmodernist/poststructuralist/social-constructivist discourse—and more generally a penchant for subjectivism—which is, I believe, inimical to the values and future of the Left.

They imagine,perhaps, that they can exploit the prestige of the natural sciences in order to give their own discourse a veneer of rigor. And they seem confident that no one will notice their misuse of scientific concepts. No one is going to cry out that the king is naked. Our goal is precisely to say that the king is naked (and the queen too).

Cynicism is a great cure for over-study. There is a great deal of cynicism in this book, in one place and another. It should be regarded as Angostura Bitters, to brighten the flavour of a discourse which were else too sweet. It prevents one from slopping over into sentimentality.