Quotes About Debate

Elige a alguien que ejerza el papel de abogado del diablo, que tome puntos de vista opuestos a los tuyos de modo que puedas ver los puntos débiles de tu decisión.

even reading information that goes against your point of view can make you all the more convinced you are right.

Never argue with a librarian; they know too much.

America, GET RID OF YOUR GOD DAMN GUNS.

This debate has repercussions on how we live for God, how we relate to our neighbors both near and far, and how we connect with our Christian brothers. It affects the valuing of women, the quality of our marriages, and the teachings and behavioral patterns we pass on to our children. It shapes our ideas of what it means to be part of the body of Christ, how we develop and use our gifts, and what Jesus asks of us in fulfilling his mission for the world.

The American constitutional order is meant to create a deliberative democracy, in which debate and discussion accompany accountability. This is not merely a system of majority rule, through which majorities get to do as they like simply because they are majorities. Reason-giving is central, and a deliberative democracy gives reasons.

too much dystopianism, too frequently or easily deployed, has its own costs. It's important to distinguish policies we don't like from policies that attempt a fundamental transformation of political institutions. That's true for purposes of conserving critical resources. But it's also true for purposes of drawing public attention and debate.

They were like two landowners in Pompeii arguing over who had the better view of Vesuvius.

Nothing ever gets settled in this town. ... a seething debating society in which the debate never stops, in which people never give up, including me. And so that's the atmosphere in which you administer.

The ultimate intuitions on which ethics rests are not debatable, for they are not opinions we hazard but preferences we feel; and it can neither be correct nor incorrect that we feel them.

The truth is, you can find almost anything in the Bible to latch onto if you are really determined.

When a politician, on a subject implicating science says, 'the debate is over', you may be sure of two things: the debate is raging, and he is losing it.

One of my clients told me the story of the optimist and the pessimist who were arguing about philosophy. The optimist declares,"This is the best of all possible worlds." The pessimist sighs and says, "You're right.

Lawyers spend a great deal of time shovelling smoke.

A man never tells you anything until you contradict him.

Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.

Oratory is the power to talk people out of their sober and natural opinions.

The object of oratory is not truth, but persuasion.

If I believe in something, I will fight for it with all I have. But I do not demand all or nothing. I would rather get something than nothing. Professional liberals want the fiery debate. They glory in defeat. The hardest job for a politician today is to have the courage to be a moderate. It's easy to take an extreme position.

Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

He who will not reason, is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not, is a slave.

Error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.

Resort is had to ridicule only when reason is against us.

Innovators are inevitably controversial.