Quotes About Debate

In my temperance speeches, I have frequently been interrupted, and sometimes interrogated by opponents. I always take things coolly, let them have their say, and endeavor to give them a "Roland for an Oliver.

just because a point is well made, doesn't mean it's right.

Oh, there's going to be debate because you're dealing with the Bible and religion is supposed to be separate from state and that to me is already a conflict before it even hits the gay issue.

There are as many good things about civilization as bad. Perhaps more. And we would miss them. From toothbrushes to electric lights. From clean water to democracy. From bookstores to the kind of gentle, tolerant argumentation that never resorts to violence and allows for the slow changing of opinions,…and the gradual and diverse evolving of everybody's minds. The core of what we now know that it means

He waited for Mercy's response. He enjoyed their arguments because very few people argued with him at all.

My grandfather always said that if you don't argue, you can't be proved wrong.

If you want to become a better conversationalist, always understand that you're not engaged in a debate. There is no right or wrong answer. What you're shooting for is to establish an atmosphere of likeability and collaboration. You want the person listening to you and talking to you to like you. That is your end goal, and that's difficult when you are constantly debating, arguing, selling them, or trying to change their minds.

My dear creature, I have done with all debate. But you know as well as I, patriotism is a word; and one that generally comes to mean either MY COUNTRY, RIGHT OR WRONG, which is infamous, or MY COUNTRY IS ALWAYS RIGHT, which is imbecile.

Contrary opinions are one thing, contrary facts are another.

Name the nine prime fallacies," he snapped. "Simplification. Generalization. Circularity. Reduction. Analogy. False causality. Semantism. Irrelevancy….

Contrary opinions are one thing. Contrary facts are another." I

We made quite a crew, all talking at once, contradicting and sparring, a cacophony of affectionate arguing.

opening arguments

Intellectuals suck, Nathan. They are the most boring people in the world.

For instance, most everyone agrees that a just society promotes equality among its citizens, but blood is spilled over what sort of equality is morally preferable: equality of opportunity or equality of outcome

John Quincy Adams resolved to the discipline of rejecting argument for argument's sake would he sees that a fellow cabinet member is trying to draw him in to debating proposals the president will already reject.

It is the doom of the Christian church to be always distracted with controversy. John Quincy Adams

But in virtually all societies with more inclusive voting systems, single-issue anti-immigrant parties now attract a remarkably high share of the vote. Far from forcing sane debate on immigration policy by the mainstream parties, the emergence of extremists has further frightened them away from the issue. Either you regard this outcome as a shocking condemnation of ordinary people, or as a shocking condemnation of the mainstream political parties: I view it as the latter.

The surprise of situational distress has produced deeply emotional questions that have led them to deeply theological conclusions, but it's been nothing like the sort of theological debate found in a classroom.

While any software system introduces some kind of formalization of the world, HCI (like AI) deals with formalizations of human cognition and activity. These are the issues that have lay at the heart of philosophical debate for centuries. In some ways, it would be hard to imagine a more philosophical enterprise.

Los Absolutos se pueden discutir por siempre y nunca resolverse. ¡

The tragedy of contemporary philosophy is that it has been castrated.

So sue me, I think the marijuana laws are bullshit.

Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke." —Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.