Quotes About Debate

Crow shrugged. "What is death? The loss of a body? The loss of the animating spark? If that's the case, I am dead. "Or is life the persistence of memory and emotion, volition and desire?" Crow went on, as if in a debate with himself. "If that's the case, I am very much alive.

Fiction can accommodate ambivalence as polemic cannot

In early-twenty-first-century America, when political debate is often confined to shouting on cable television or posting on Twitter, it's even more valuable to revisit an era when arguments over politics and culture were palpable, urged, even revolutionary.

The politicians were talking themselves red, white and blue in the face.

Philosophers are divided on the question of whether the narrative therein unfolded [the Crossman Diaries] is grippingly boring or boringly gripping.

Honest differences of views and honest debate are not disunity. They are the vital process of policy making among free men.

Those who cavalierly reject the Theory of Evolution, as not adequately supported by facts, seem quite to forget that their own theory is supported by no facts at all.

Philosophy arose out of religion,

Republicans have been losing the war of words for years now. Now they are just caving because they don't even want to try. I don't agree with that approach.

People who oppose Obama are said to be racists - so I guess I'm a racist.

Everybody favors free speech in the slack moments when no axes are being ground.

peroration. He had left his opponents with nothing to say and nowhere to

Only the previous year, the Assembly had debated the question of capital punishment, and the popular deputy Robespierre had actually pleaded for it to be abolished. They said he still felt stongly about the question, was hopeful of success. But that deep-thinking man, M. Sanson, feels that M. Robespierre is out of step with public opinion, on this point.

Freedom means the right of people to assemble, organize, and debate openly.

I think that you can disagree with people and debate over their positions with issues without engaging in the politics of personal destruction.

Nimeni nu pune mare pre? pe faptul c? un preot oarecare se exprim? îin favoarea lui Dumnezeu. Asta-i meseria lui, nu? Dar când matematicieni si oameni de ?tiin?? ca Pasca, Newton ?i Swedenborg fac lucrul ?sta, adep?ii "Tat?lui nostru" devin aten?i.

I fall asleep in the back of the debate team meeting. I wake up in the middle of a debate about whether or not to wake me.

Power is action, and the elective principle is discussion.There is no policy, no statesmanship possible where discussion is permanent.

Power is action the electoral principle is discussion. No political action is possible when discussion is permanently established.

No, Mr. Khrushchev, you may not have a wall. It will not prove that communism works. It will not work out well at all. Now, look, I agree capitalism isn't the be-all and end-all! Let me show you my last credit card bill. But you really need to put your thinking cap back on.

Some theories are good for nothing except to be argued about.

Racist -- a person who wins an argument with a liberal.

You say [slavery] is wrong; but don't you constantly object to anybody else saying so? Do you not constantly argue that this is not the right place to oppose it? You say it must not be opposed in the free States, because slavery is not there; it must not be opposed in the slave States, because it is there; it must not be opposed in politics, because that will make a fuss; it must not be opposed in the pulpit, because it is not religion. Then where is the place to oppose it?

Have we ever had any peace on this slavery question? When are we to have peace upon it if it is kept in the position it now occupies? How are we ever to have peace upon it? That is an important question.