Quotes About Debate

If you attempt an actual argument with a modern paper of opposite politics, you will have no answer except slanging or silence.

I could say much about politics, our only entertainment here, but you would not care a fig about that.

The conflict between art and politics... cannot and must not be solved.

Politics has always been a mud fight - better that citizens jump in the trough than lose interest.

To go from politics to news, at least the subject matter is the same, even if the view is different.

The politics of transgender identity are really complicated. And the debate over how much of gender is biological and how much of it is socially constructed is a very complex debate.

In politics, when you're explaining, you're losing.

If pro is the opposite of con, what is the opposite of Congress?

Congress is so strange. A man gets up to speak and says nothing. Nobody listens then everybody disagrees.

When it comes to matters of pro sports, politics or palate, disparate sides claim their party, team and cola to be superior.

Most people don't want to talk about politics and religion. They say, 'Let's talk about something else.'

Heresy makes for progress.

Germany and Austria have had positive experiences with strong states and a cooperative democracy. I am certain that this example could be helpful in a constructive debate on the Catalonian situation.

But if you parry individuals points - a negative and defensive enterprise - you never step back and actively imagine a world in which a different system of ideas could be true - a positive act.

Nations need to understand their own strengths and weaknesses, and India's tradition of dissent and democratic debate is a positive aspect.

People enjoy convincing others, if others are wrong they convince them towards right, if others are already right they still want to convince them towards wrong.

Frustration is having a debate with a blind man on shades of red

Oratory is the power of beating down your adversary's arguments and putting better in their place.

I tell you folks, all politics is applesauce.

If pro is the opposite of con, what is the opposite of Congress?

People's minds are changed through observation and not through argument.

You give us long enough to argue over something and we will bring you in proofs to show that the Ten Commandments should never be ratified.

Een oude theologische strijdmethode: een stelling poneren, zo belachelijk en dom, dat oppositie ertegen automatisch even belachelijk en dom wordt.

While friends we were, the hot debates That rose 'twixt you and me! Now we are mere associates, And never disagree.