Quotes About Debate

In 2019, Fox News' Greg Gutfeld explained to me what he called "the prison of two ideas." He told me that no one can seriously talk to or even be perceived as working with people on the "other side" of the debate, or they will be disowned by their own side. This applies not only to the media but also to politics generally. This surely explains much of the lack of civil, productive debate on guns.

In a truly free society, people in every field would be free to express their views whether called religious or not, and the marketplace of ideas would be free to sort them out.

If a person can be said to have the wrong attitude, there is no need to pay attention to his arguments.

Cuando el debate pasa de echarle culpas a pedirle a la otra parte que resuelva la percepción equivocada, todo mejora.

The daughter of debate, that eke discord doth sow.

I don't believe in God. She drops by once in a while and we argue about it. Now can you stop yammering on with your questions long enough for us to steal a few horses?

The station was not yet in sight ahead, and we had plenty of time to kill before we caught up with it. Of course this meant that Singer and Connla started arguing about the nature of consciousness again; (I'm sorry, "discussing".)

I'll not listen to reason…. Reason always means what someone else has got to say.

Gustav's art isn't political," I said. "You of all people should know that." "All art is political. You of all people should know that.

Because two people can't have entirely different opinions without one of them being final.

Dialectic teaches us that contradiction is the essence of the false, just as consistency with first principles is the essence of the true.

After much negotiation and debate, in March 1409 a general council met in Pisa to resolve the schism according to the new formula.

Would Erasmus now step forward and endorse Luther as one of his own? Would he acknowledge that they were fighting on the same side and lend the tremendous weight of his reputation to the Lutheran cause?

Soldiers disturbed by the Znamenskaya Square massacre had sat up all night debating what to do if ordered to fire on civilians again. On the morning of March 12, they voted to disobey such an order. One regiment after another joined the vote; soon, soldiers were pouring out into the streets to join the demonstrators. It was the largest military mutiny in history.

If you put forward arguments and justifications when you are annoyed, you give out more information to your opponent

el líder de la derecha, Gil Robles, había afirmado: Sociedad única y patria única. Y al que quiera discutirlo hay que aplastarlo.

se multiplicaban como tertulianos de radio y televisión.

En marzo de 1812 se aprobó, tras acaloradas discusiones, la desdichada Constitución por la que España debería regirse… Esta cita, que procede de un libro de texto escolar editado siglo y medio más tarde, durante el franquismo, refleja la postura del sector conservador de las Cortes de Cádiz y la larga proyección que las ideas reaccionarias tendrían en el futuro.

Lo que dices es hábil pero es un juego de palabras. ?¿Conoces tú algo que no sea un juego de palabras?

When ordinary folk perceive phenomena, They look on them as real, and not illusory. This, then, is the subject of debate Where ordinary and yogis differ.

A mere friend will agree with you, but a real friend will argue.

The best answer to bad speech is good speech

Come on people! Somebody disagree with me! How can we learn anything if no one will disagree?" Rabbi Stern

People who know the least always argue the most.