Quotes About Debate

Cuando no tienes buenos argumentos, a veces es mejor darle la vuelta a la tortilla y ponerte a preguntar tú. Lo aprendí en la clase de Introducción a los medios de comunicación.

The debate raged on for so long, at last Saphira had interrupted with a roar that shook the walls of the command tent. Then she said, I am sore and tired, and Eragon is doing a poor job of explaining himself. We have better things to do than stand around yammering like jackdaws, no? ... Good now listen to me. It was reflected Eragon, hard to argue with a dragon.

If two smart and logical people disagree it's because they are acting on different information

If there are loud and angry people on only one side of a debate, it probably means the other side simply does not have a spokesperson.

but I had also learned that freedom of speech means freedom from rhetoric.

Las redes sociales le dan el derecho de hablar a legiones de idiotas que antes hablaban sólo en el bar después de un vaso de vino, sin dañar a la comunidad. Entonces eran rápidamente silenciados, pero ahora tienen el mismo derecho a hablar que un Premio Nobel. Es la invasión de los imbéciles

hay que valerse de la risa para desarmar la seriedad de los oponentes, y a la risa, en cambio, oponer la seriedad.

But often the treasures of learning must be defended, not against the simple but, rather, against other learned men.

La cultura è un'alternanza continua tra la libera presa di parola e la critica di questa presa di parola.

there was nothing to do but to dig away at the base of this mountain of ignorance and prejudice. You must keep at the poor fellow; you must hold your temper, and argue with him, and watch for your chance to stick an idea or two into his head. And the rest of the time you must sharpen up your weapons- you must think out new replies to his objections and provide yourself with new facts to prove to him the folly of his ways.

but no, if she had been here, he would have been driven to take the side against her. This wasn't perversity, he would insist; he was trying to see the problem from all of its many sides, and argued against all persons who wanted to see only one side.

wartime it appeared that nobody wanted to see both sides of any question.

In wartime it appeared that nobody wanted to see both sides of any question. IV

Whereas before he had waited for me to ask questions, now it was he who put up little ideas, little debating points, as though he wanted to get a discussion going.

I do not think it matters whether one agrees or not as long as one is forced to think.

Martin Luther was excommunicated in the year Cortés first occupied Tenochtitlán, yet nascent Protestantism and its accompanying debate about religious doctrine would find no receptive audience back in contemporary Castile.

Transgenderism, climate change, females in frontline combat units, and gay marriage, between 2008 and 2020, were transformed from topics of legitimate discussion and debate into rigid, politically correct orthodoxies—often more by regulators than legislators. When the deep state embraces new normals, its powers to target dissidents and mavericks and redefine them as dangers to the ideas of equality, fairness, and decency can become downright scary.

The slightest contact with logic makes all false arguments disintegrate.

Strong and bitter wordes indicate a weak cause.

Kata-kata keras dan pedas menunjukkan alasan yang lemah.

La guerre, c'est la guerre des hommes; la paix c'est la guerre des idées.

Gans and Savigny controversy; he took Savigny, he took Gans, read

Mr. Lundberg: "I asked you for your position on capital punishment." Student: "Prone.

Why did Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan begin remarking frequently during the 1980s and '90s that people were entitled to their own opinions but not to their own facts? Because until then, it hadn't seemed like a serious problem in America.