Quotes About Debate

Yeah, I think that social conservatives recognize that they didn't just lose the debate about same-sex marriage. They lost the debate about the institution of marriage, and those two things were sort of connected to each other. The way people thought about marriage changed.

Sound health policy is about so much more than the mechanics of insurance. Let's stop letting 'Medicare-for-all' dominate the conversation.

The controversial idea of abolishing private insurance in favor of a single, government-run program certainly deserves some rigorous back-and-forth. But not at the expense of issues with a much greater impact on our health.

The Liberals are intellectually exhausted.

There is no inherent contradiction between being right-wing and being intelligent.

If I'm saying something with an intelligent background, then at least it is creating conversation. Whether that conversation is people agreeing or disagreeing, I'm happy.

I love going on Chris Hayes' show. It probably is my favorite because of the intensity of the intellectual combat.

I want to write a book that makes people debate, and makes people think, interact with each other and exchange ideas... I write because I'm engaged in this big conversation.

I like controversy. The more controversial it gets, the more interesting it is.

In a film, you have to externalize things that are internal and of course it becomes a debate about to what extent you do that.

I don't think it's such a bad thing to have internal debate between coach and leading players.

I was taught not to confront and interrupt people, but that's what I do every day on 'The View.'

Of course sports and politics intersect, and those conversations belong, more than anywhere else, on a network devoted to sports.

Questions can be more dangerous than swords.

For more than three thousand years men have quarreled concerning the formulas of their faith.

Humans are a cooperative, if argumentative, race.

Si ella se hallara presente en aquel debate de la mançana con las tres diosas, nunca sobrenombre de discordia le pusieran. Porque sin contrariar ninguna, todas concedieran e vivieran conformes en que la lleuara Melibea. Assí que se llamara mançana de concordia. Pues quantas oy son nascidas, que della tengan noticia, se maldizen, querellan a Dios, porque no se acordó dellas, quando a esta mi señora hizo.

Cuando una persona se configura para expresarse en 140 caracteres, cuando se habitúa al dicterio o al insulto, pierde capacidad para la argumentación, que es la médula del pensamiento.

La filosofía sirve para lo que sirve Dios. Para un carajo.

We must admit that our opponents in this argument have a marked advantage over us. They need only a few words to set forth a half-truth; whereas, in order to show that it is a half-truth, we have to resort to long and arid dissertations.

Realism provides only amoral observation, while Absurdism rejects even the possibility of debate.

Calm, open debate, and logical thought drive strength to its maximum effectiveness.

You cannot argue with [Satan], for he is the greatest debater of all time.

Why shouldn't we have laws forbidding pornography and obscenity? Many heroic leaders have tried, but they have stumbled over even the definition of the word "obscenity." If we cannot agree on the length of a foot, it is because we have lost our yardstick.