Quotes About Debate

First rule of change is controversy. You can't get away from it for the simple reason all issues are controversial. Change means movement, and movement means friction, and friction means heat, and heat means controversy.

All logical arguments can be defeated by the simple refusal to reason logically

Science doesn't make it impossible to believe in God, it just makes it possible not to believe in God

those idiots at Breitbart.

Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts.

I grew up in a family in which political issues were often discussed, and debated intensely.

Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.

Since words are like the color of a painting, how you organize and use them will have an effect on the discussion as a whole, choosing your words carefully is a talent that may dramatically improve your capacity to frame any discussion"

The first to speak in court sounds right—until the cross-examination begins" (Proverbs 18:17).

The Tea Party is a fitting representation of our era of no-debate, politically correct politics, where each political side has its own media, and opposing views are almost never given a fair hearing. Conservatives listen only to conservatives, and liberals listen only to liberals. People are spared the inconvenience of facts that don't fit their beliefs and the unpleasantness of seriously considering a point of view other than their own.

People argue themselves out of their pleasures

There are some people who like nothing better than a good, regular quarrel.

Without such rules, there are no exchanges of ideas, only exchanges of set positions and insults. People who disagree rapidly move from talking over one another to shouting one another down, and from expressing their opinions on the matter at hand to expressing their opinions of the intelligence and morality of those who disagree with them.

I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.

one particular metaphysical debate, namely whether there are purposes in nature or not, and if so what they are.

Academy, Plato's own school, for hundreds of years – until it came to an end in the first century BC – took its task to be that of arguing against the views of others without relying on a position of one's own.

Kate-nek voltak bizonyos alapelvei, és ezek közé tartozott az is, hogy csukott ajtóval ne vitatkozzon.

There was little less appealing than being decisively contradicted while one was trying to make a grand point.

Whether the Constitution allows indictment of a sitting president is debatable.

Conservatives cannot be absent from the debate on inequality and equality in the nation.

In the world there is a debate over inequity, and sometimes we get caught up in that, and retail does in general.

Science can and should inform debate about abortion and the law. But science does not resolve questions of moral value and moral choice.

I read the 'Guardian,' because it's a bit like having an argument with a mate. We mostly have the same sensibilities, but where we disagree, it's infuriating.

Maybe one day the world will change, that we'll be in a luxurious position of being able to debate whether or not it's inherently wrong to eat animals, but the question doesn't matter right now.