Quotes About Debate

you have to understand in order to disagree.

I hope you still think that ideas are more dangerous than material things," Quentinsaid. "That was what you were arguing at lunch.

Darwin's theory of evolution was simple, beautiful, majestic and awe-inspiring. But because it contradicts the allegorical babblings of a bunch of made-up old books, it's been under attack since day one. That's just tough luck for Darwin. If the Bible had contained a passage that claimed gravity is caused by God pulling objects toward the ground with magic invisible threads, we'd still be debating Newton with idiots too.

Silence is argument carried on by other means.

And, if even a polished, professional communicator like Catherine Lim misfired in her attempt, what chance did most Singaporeans have? That affair remained a prominent reference point, making Singaporeans conclude that, for all the government's explanations and clarifications, engaging in political debate was an extremely risky and unpredictable business, and that it was wisest to stay out

a lot of debating, pontificating, finger-pointing, outrage and no problem-solving. The noise from one controversy will ultimately fade and make way for the next…and then, the next.

80 per cent of people who care about politics and national issues fall in the 'taking sides' category.

Some experts even say the idea of India is wrong;

An energy crisis will never stop motor-mouths.

Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument, an exchange of ignorance.

You can have my Oxford comma when you pry it from my cold, dead, and lifeless hands.

You know you're a language nerd when you have a strong opinion about serial commas.

Debating where to go on holiday this year. I think maybe upstairs.

While debate raged over the size of an army (it was settled at half of Wilson's idea) and the proper place of the United States on the world stage (the U.S. Senate decided that American security was better preserved by two oceans than a seat in the League of Nations),

Audite et alteram partem

For many readers, writers, editors and agents ... pretty much the working (in)definition: SF is short for So Fuck?

Writers are a combative bunch when it comes to aesthetics, and the generation before GENRE are born into a discourse that's been brewing since Cervantes.

There is hardly a better way to avoid discussion than by releasing an argument from the control of the present and by saying that only the future will reveal its merits.

The number of children is not growing any longer in the world. We are still debating peak oil, but we have definitely reached peak child.

What this country needs is more free speech worth listening to.

Don't start an argument with somebody who has a microphone when you don't. They'll make you look like chopped liver.

Fighting newspaper editors for the last word was a losing proposition.

Southern newspapers hungry for fodder to roil the secession debate fed their subscribers the most inciteful material they could unearth in the Northern press. Northern journals scoured Southern papers for similarly provocative reports designed to confirm hotheaded Southern disloyalty.

Horace Greeley's conversation inevitably becomes a speech.