Quotes About Debate

I like debate and argument, so I'm usually all right with disagreement, and I'm even all right if the critic doesn't come to a clear thumbs up or thumbs down. But I need the disagreement to have some kind of line I can follow on the map. I like following an interesting mind along it.

I think a lot of moral debates are not over what is the basis of justice, but who gets a ticket to play in the game.

I like bow ties, and I certainly spent a lot of time defending them.

I'm very excited for the opportunity to work with Skip Bayless, the top opinionist in the business, and Shannon Sharpe, legendary NFL tight end and Hall of Famer. I love a good debate and look forward to sitting with these two and seeing what happens every day.

Hear the other side.

Hear the other side. (Audi Partem Alteram)

You are a Ciceronian, not a Christian.

The line, often adopted by strong men in controversy, of justifying the means by the end.

To defend his position he piles up text upon text, waves his sword like a blind-folded gladiator, rattles his noisy tongue, and ends with wounding no one but himself.

Nothing is as frustrating as arguing with someone who knows what he's talking about.

Nothing is as frustrating as arguing with someone who knows what he's talking about.

Too many critics mistake the deliberations of the Congress for its decisions.

I've heard old cunning stagers Say, fools for arguments use wagers.

He could distinguish and divideA hair 'twixt south and southwest side,On either which he would dispute,Confute, change hands, and still confute.

He'd run in debt by disputation,And pay with ratiocination.

Theist and atheist: The fight between them is as to whether God shall be called God or shall have some other name.

I have found you an argument; but I am not obliged to find you an understanding.

Questioning is not the mode of conversation among gentlemen.

Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test.

You raise your voice when you should reinforce your argument.

Like many profound and unexamined fears, this one breeds irrationality, causing many people to suspend all logic and refuse to participate in rational discourse.

The net has provided a level playing field for criticism and comment - anyone and everyone is entitled to their opinion - and that is one of its greatest strengths.

Communism," I observed, "is a pile of wank.

Our business is communication oftentimes through the medium of stories but our capacity has a far greater scope - to entertain certainly, but also to stimulate debate, to mark up changes and differences and that way, to maybe, just now and then, to change the world.