Quotes About Debate

By the beginning of the 20th century, the debate about monetary policy and the nation's financial system had been going on for over a century. Increasingly, the shortcomings of the existing system were causing too much harm to ignore.

Evolution isn't true, because if we evolved from monkeys, how can they still be here?

I don't think people are monsters if they put ketchup on hot dogs, but I'm good without it. It's a debate that I don't get too hot-and-heavy with.

A moral monopoly is the antithesis of a marketplace of ideas.

The likability of any player is always up for debate, and people will always use their own moral compass to judge Luis Suarez, but that's not something I tend to focus on. I concentrate on what he is like with me on a day-to-day basis, and he is a great man.

Contemporary moral philosophy has found an original way of being boring, which is by not discussing moral issues at all.

Of course 'Hamlet' is a debate about the nature and morality of revenge and whether it is right to do something to assuage your angry feelings.

Our schools should be places that encourage the open debate of ideas and teach important morals to our young people so that they know right from wrong.

One of the great debates about the Internet is whether it is making people more or less free.

The Affordable Care Act has hurt more people that it's helped.

One of the most powerful lessons I learned is when you make an argument in a film, you have to make sure both characters are right.

It is a classic example of arguing against a caricature instead of confronting the argument actually made. While

Discorde de alguém da direita e ele, provavelmente, vai pensar que você é estúpido, errado, tolo, um bobo. Discorde de alguém da esquerda e ele, provavelmente, vai pensar que você é egoísta, traidor da causa, insensível, possivelmente mau14

According to House minority leader Richard Gephardt: "What we have is two important values in direct conflict: freedom of speech and our desire for healthy campaigns in a healthy democracy.

The experimental subjects found it much easier to argue against positions they disliked than in favor of those they supported. There was a special power in doubt. Doubt

asking about sampling errors and margins of error, debating if the number is rising or falling, believing, doubting, analyzing, dissecting—without taking the time to understand the first and most obvious fact: What is being measured, or counted? What definition is being used? Yet while this pitfall is common, it doesn't seem to have acquired a name. My suggestion is "premature enumeration.

it is not enough to tolerate dissent: sometimes you have to demand it. Galvin

Yes," Vader said, frowning. "Are you suggesting I was wrong?

Politicians are more concerned with "issues" than "principles," but talked as though the two nouns had the same meaning.

day and then Mom will meet me in Cleveland tomorrow night for the debate on Wednesday. Okay . . . Just wanted to touch base with you. Call me or Mom when you can, okay? Bye." Ryan disconnected the call and tossed

The mark of intellectual honesty is the solicitation of opposing points of view.

As the Athenians to the Pnyx, the antique Romans to the Campus Martius, or our Nordic ancestors to the All-Thing, so the folk of Tilling flocked to the High Street for extempore parliament.

Philosophers have argued for centuries about how many angels can dance on the head of a pin, but materialists have known all along that it depends on whether they are jitterbugging or dancing cheek to cheek.

Hemingway and Norman Mailer might have disagreed, but there is no heavyweight champion of literature.