Quotes About Debate

Surely: the adverb of a man without an argument.

Every man who says frankly and fully what he thinks is so far doing a public service. We should be grateful to him for attacking most unsparingly our most cherished opinions.

You cannot have a rational discussion with a man who prefers shooting you to being convinced by you.

Human beings understand themselves and shape their futures by arguing and challenging and questioning and saying the un-sayable, not by bowing the knee whether to gods or to men.

The proselytisers for man-made global warming have long exercised a tight stranglehold over the contents of Wikipedia.

The trouble with straw men is it only takes a single match to set them ablaze.

In Washington, a man gets up to speak and doesn't say a thing, and the other men disagree with him for three hours.

Why do people argue? Even the wisest of men have not found God through argument! Is God a subject for argument?

One of the duties of a baseball fan is to engage in arguments with the man behind him.

A fool is he that comes to preach or prate, When men with swords their right and wrong debate. [It., Chi conta i colpi e la dovuta offesa, Mentr' arde la tenzon, misura e pesa?]

It is generally the man who is not ready to argue, who is ready to sneer.

I cannot divine how it happens that the man who knows the least is the most argumentative.

At some point in this death-penalty debate, the sanctity of innocent life demands that men and women of conservative conscience have to say: Enough.

A fair-minded person tries to see both sides of an argument.

The question is this - Is man an ape or an angel? My Lord, I am on the side of the angels. I repudiate with indignation and abhorrence these new fanged theories.

Brutes by their natural instinct have produced many discoveries, whereas men by discussion and the conclusions of reason have given birth to few or none.

Developing formal tools capable of integrating this missing cipher—absential influence—into the fabric of the natural sciences is an enterprise that should be at the center of scientific and philosophical debate.

Virginia Governor Ralph Northam now wants to be "civil" about killing newborns. He ended his response to questions about approving third-trimester abortions by saying, "So again, as I said in my comments about this earlier, we can agree to disagree, but let's be civil about it." Dr.

Virginia Governor Ralph Northam now wants to be "civil" about killing newborns. He ended his response to questions about approving third-trimester abortions by saying, "So again, as I said in my comments about this earlier, we can agree to disagree, but let's be civil about it.

The degeneration of conversation into monologue, dogmatic assertion, is barbarism.

What has Athens to do with Jerusalem?

The late Franz Borkenau once said, after he had broken with the Communist Party, that he could no longer put up with the practice of discussing municipal regulations in the categories of Hegelian logic, and Hegelian logic in the spirit of meetings of the town council.

Reading through the reviews, I feel as though I am witnessing a much more erudite and informed preview of the Fox News/MSNBC shouting matches of today.

I took the Isthmus, started the Canal, and then left Congress—not to debate the Canal, but to debate me…. While the debate goes on the Canal does too.