Quotes About Debate

Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life. Too many of us divide and dissipate our energies in debating actions which should be taken for granted.

Out of Plato come all things that are still written and debated about among men of thought.

There is always a certain meanness in the argument of conservatism, joined with a certain superiority in its fact.

It was a toss-up which was more pointless: Arguing with an algorithm or talking back to his mother.

Do we fear terrorism so much that we throw out our Constitution, and are we unwilling and afraid to debate our Constitution?

those who offer invective rather than argument discourage others from speaking.

Everybody has a right to like or dislike anything or anyone. From a flower to a flavor to a book or a composition but it is very sad that in our country we actually fight over such things in an unseemly manner.

Most atheists bristle at the thought that atheism has anything to do with faith, but not Penn Jillette.

Evolution is unobservable. It's based on blind faith in a few dry bones and on unreliable dating systems in which the gullible trust. Kids should be allowed to make up their own minds about this issue, and not be censored to 'one side is all we will let you hear.'

Atheists don't hate fairies, leprechauns, or unicorns because they don't exist. It is impossible to hate something that doesn't exist. Atheists — like the painting experts hated the painter — hate God because He does exist.

Communist interpretation is never wrong. Logicians will object in vain that a theory which exempts itself from all refutations escapes from the order of truth.

Which came first the intestine or the tapeworm?

If the campaign is about issues, we will win.

I am saying to Canadians, there is no climate emergency in this country.

I really do not like having media moderators. Lincoln and Douglass didn't have moderators. Let the candidates ask one another questions.

Let me be clear: I am not an advocate of censorship.

I mean, believe me, I'm not for censorship.

I'm not for censorship without reason.

Arguing that God doesn't exist would be like people in the 10th century arguing that germs and microbes didn't exist because they couldn't see them.

Evolution is the key to avoiding the whole issue of God. When you challenge evolution, you're basically challenging someone on a spiritual level.

Too much agreement kills the chat.

People meet in bars after work all over the world and talk about the great problems of life and death and the world and politics and they don't take themselves seriously. They can do nothing else except chat about these things in bars after work.

I used to go on chat rooms on AOL, back when those things existed, and argue with believers in evolution and argued with them that it was against God's law to believe in evolution. It was something I believed really personally.

For centuries many of the world's distinguished philosophers have assaulted Christianity as being irrational, superstitious and absurd.