Quotes About Debate

You've got to ensure that the holders of an opinion, however unpopular, are allowed to put across their points of view.

Nothing is so unbelievable that oratory cannot make it acceptable.

In an easy cause any man may be eloquent.

The object of oratory alone is not truth, but persuasion.

He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument.

A sophistical rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity.

For God's sake, let us freely hear both sides!

Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it.

The Department of Justice is committed to asking one central question of everything we do: What is the right thing to do? Now that can produce debate, and I want it to be spirited debate. I want the lawyers of America to be able to call me and tell me: Janet, have you lost your mind?

Every real thought on every real subject knocks the wind out of somebody or other.

If you laid every economist in the country end to end you would still not reach a conclusion.

Soft words are hard arguments.

They are little to be feared whose tongues are their swords.

Housewarming presents aren't usually human beings. We can have a debate on whether or not Summerset's human, but either way, I'll make an exception.

Others in the ancient world who denounced usury include Plato, Moses, Muhammad, Aristotle and Buddha. When a line-up like that is in agreement, it is perhaps worth thinking twice about our acceptance of it.

In a sad twist of fate, the bill to reauthorize the Patriot Act was debated on the floor of the House of Representatives the same day that terrorists struck again.

The country would be a lot better off if we stopped having comment sections. And if we got rid of Twitter.

Since social networks gained popularity extremely rapidly, there had been a debate as to whether social media was a fad. There are countless pieces of evidence now proving the contrary, among them the explosion in Twitter growth and Facebook's public listing.

There is nothing more amusing than when two people known for being non-objective argue over objectivity. This is the summation of Keith Olbermann vs. Ted Koppell.

To be a real philosopher all that is necessary is to hate some one else's type of thinking.

No state, as a matter of public policy, should turn back the clock on progress by, in effect, legalizing and relitigating the same types of discriminatory laws and debates that took America centuries to overcome.

The conversation has become so divisive now on all types of immigration reform that it is really hard to move anything.

In the first 50 years of the filibuster, it was used only 35 times. But the last Congress alone had 112 cloture motions filed, plus threats of more. This is the tyranny of the minority.

Political correctness never rears its ugly head independently. It always shows up as a series of actions designed, to this observer, to crush the souls of those blessed with common sense.