Quotes About Debate

O fato de que bules em órbita e fadinhas do dente não podem ter sua inexistência comprovada não é considerado, por nenhuma pessoa racional, o tipo de fato que solucione um debate interessante. Ninguém se sente obrigado a comprovar a inexistência dos milhões de coisas fantásticas que uma imaginação fértil e brincalhona é capaz de sonhar.

Why are scientists so cravenly respectful towards the ambitions of theologians, over questions that theologians are certainly no more qualified to answer than scientists themselves?

Just think what the ordeal must be like for less intellectually robust people, less equipped by education and rhetorical skill than they are, or than Julia Sweeney is, to argue their corner in the face of obdurate family members.

Richard Dawkins

Sam Harris, Dan Dennett, Christopher Hitchens

Why should it be that it's perfectly legitimate to support the Labour party or the Conservative party, Republicans or Democrats, this model of economics versus that, Macintosh instead of Windows—but to have an opinion about how the Universe began, about who created the Universe . . . no, that's holy? . . . We

the time has come to rehabilitate rational discourse on the subject. It is hard to imagine a democratic society doing otherwise.

Once again, academia and the mass media are straining every muscle to suppress debate.

The first reactions to The Bell Curve were expressions of public outrage.

Why do you think this great nation of ours loves the Royal Family? Gun Law. If we didn't have it, you'd be asking the opposite question.

We argued for weeks about the existence and then the location of a particular semicolon

And before you embark on an argument or a debate, ask yourself honestly if you are ready to change your mind.

We are a talkative and opinionated society and not always good at listening

Reductio ad Hitlerum." Claire couldn't stop quoting Paul. "It's when you compare someone to Hitler to win an argument.

you can't have a logical discussion with someone who makes up their own facts.

political correctness jeopardizes more than it should the human capacity to speak the truth

UNSETTLED QUESTIONS FOR THEOLOGY TODAY (1920)

Argue as if you are right and listen as if you are wrong.

The charges against Communism made from a religious, a philosophical, and, generally, from an ideological standpoint, are not deserving of serious examination.

Parliament is a rumor mill staffed by trough-fed clods who abuse the tongue of their birth every time they open their mouths. They all gabble at once and confuse one another mightily, and when this confusion is committed to paper they refer to it as 'policy.

Please, with the God talk. Hate to break it to you, but there is no God.

He knows very little of mankind who expects, by any facts or reasoning, to convince a determined party man.

One man's word is no man's word; we should quietly hear both sides.

Men are joined by conviction, sundered by opinion.