Quotes About Debate

If you don't like what someone has to say, argue with them.

I tend not to argue about things that I don't believe in.

I like the idea that I'm making things that people might think and argue about.

I never argue with people about movies.

I like to argue with the radio.

Sure, you can argue one way or the other, and I respect those who think Adani should go ahead. I ask for respect in the other direction.

Everyone has their own taste, and you can argue about taste.

I've been arguing with Dianne Feinstein for years.

People are always arguing: New York or L.A.? They're both great places, you know.

I always wanted to write a book that would have people talking, theorizing, arguing.

Arguing is fun when you think you have all the answers.

I like arguments.

No matter what side of an argument you're on, you always find some people on your side that wish you were on the other side.

I will listen to any argument put to me.

There is no argument that I won't take seriously.

Yes, I have a philosophy, and you have to come with good arguments to change that philosophy, but, if someone has a better argument than me, then I will change.

You don't know, my dear minister, all that can be made in the provinces of a judicial affair when adroitly manipulated, — cooked, as I may say. In my long and laborious career at the bar I saw plenty of that kind of miracle. But a parliamentary debate is another thing. In that there's no need of proof; one can kill one's man with probabilities and assertions, if hotly maintained.

Scholars dispute and the case is still before the courts.

Most of these take a strong stand and present a case either for or against impact theory. In my opinion, the best of the pro-impact books is James Lawrence Powell's Night Comes to the Cretaceous (New York: W. H. Freeman, 1998). The case against the impact theory is vigorously argued by Charles Officer and Jake Page in The Great Dinosaur Extinction Controversy (Reading, MA: Helix Books, 1996).

Freedom is hammered out on the anvil of discussion, dissent, and debate.

La science actualise les débats, elle les rafraîchit. Elle ne les tue pas. A chacun de faire son choix.

During the debate on the CLA Act in the House of Commons, a Liberal member named Henry Labouchère had questioned why sexual acts between men should not be included in the bill. The late addition of the Labouchère Amendment made any act of "gross indecency" between men punishable by two years in prison—thus criminalizing homosexuality in Great Britain for the next seventy-two years.

Certainty is the enemy of reason and of reasonableness.

If you want to reinforce someone's existing beliefs, attack them.