Quotes About Debate

We owe it to ourselves and to our policy makers to have a high standard of public debate about the future of our energy supplies.

The job of the press is to encourage debate, not to supply the public with information.

I would rather drink weedkiller than support Obamacare.

During that 2011 offseason, as the debate around 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' and DOMA was heating up on social media, I had to pull out every last ounce of self-control to keep myself from retweeting something in support of marriage equality.

There have been no sects in the Christian world, however absurd, which have not endeavoured to support their opinions by arguments drawn from Scripture.

I've supported the repeal of ObamaCare.

Omidyar Network first supported Africa Check in 2014 when they were a team of just three dedicated people intent on building a more fact-based environment for public debate in South Africa.

The left has become increasingly dogmatic on immigration. Any position short of supporting open borders is described as racist. That's nonsensical.

Oh, there's going to be debate because you're dealing with the Bible and religion is supposed to be separate from state and that to me is already a conflict before it even hits the gay issue.

Liberals cannot win in the battle of ideas, so they resort to banning or suppressing ideas they don't like.

Advocates of 'free speech' often repeat the mantra that the best response to bad speech is more and better speech, not the suppression of the bad stuff.

If the court is a political institution making important political decisions, then the public should debate the politics of Supreme Court decisions.

A Supreme Court ruling is supposed to provide clarity to contentious legal issues, but in the case of reproductive rights, it was just the beginning of a long, heated, and grueling debate.

We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavouring to stifle is a false opinion; and even if we were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.

I begin with the principle that all men are bores. Surely no one will prove himself so great a bore as to contradict me in this.

I am surprised that anyone can profess to be an atheist.

Surrogate motherhood has been the subject of much philosophical and political dispute over the years.

There is no God, and conversation is a dying art.

Without a vision, we become a debating society and a place where habit quickly becomes 'tradition.' Tradition often becomes an excuse for repression, bigotry, or reactionary thinking.

Seeing Tully was stung by the reference to ancient church canon long since abandoned, Kulgan softened his tone "No disrespect to you, Tully. But don't try to teach an old thief to steal. I know your order chops logic with the best of them, and that half your brother clerics fall into laughing fits when they hear those deadly serious young acolytes debate theological issues set aside a century ago. Besides which, isn't the legend of the lost art an Ishapian dogma?

Culture is ordinary: that is the first fact. Every human society has its own shape, its own purposes, its own meanings. Every human society expresses these, in institution, and in arts and learning. The making of a society is the finding of common meanings and directions, and its growth is an active debate and amendment under the pressures of experience, contact, and discovery, writing themselves into the land.

I)n order to refute a conclusion, you have to put forth the best possible argument for it. (p. 158)

His relevance derives overwhelmingly from the questions he asked and from his insistence that they cannot be easily dispensed with in the ways that people often think. One of the peculiar features of philosophical questions is how eager people are to offer solutions that miss the point of the questions.

The worst criticism seeks to have the last word and leave the rest of us in silence; the best opens up an exchange that need never end.