Quotes About Debate

He lifted his brows. If I really thought it was the absolute best thing for our kids, you'd have had a battle on your hands. That was just a debate. With chair-throwing. Heated debate. Fights involve chair-breaking. Chair-throwing is just getting your attention.

The greater their ignorance, the stronger their opinions. Georgetown

there are more Muslims than Christians in the world. So somebody's church is wrong.

The ability to listen to smart people who disagree with you is a rare talent – but a president should have it.

Look, most Republicans are decent men who simply have a view of the world that is different from ours. But there is a hard core of fucking nutcases.

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

Nuclear power will be the Vietnam issue of the 1980s.

If you wish to make a man your enemy, tell him simply, 'You are wrong.' This method works every time.

During the second half of the nineteenth century', wrote Gilbert's younger brother Cecil, 'the middle class was absolutely bubbling over with ideas…. It was rioting in its new-found intellectual liberty as heartily as the men of the Restoration rioted in their new-found moral liberty. Everywhere you found households where new theories of politics, philosophy, religion, or science were eagerly welcomed, debated, and

Who can refute a sneer?

It were endless to dispute upon everything that is disputable.

Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders, than from the arguments of its opposers.

In all debates, let truth be thy aim, not victory, or an unjust interest.

Nothing does reason more right, than the coolness of those that offer it: For Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders, than from the arguments of its opposers.

Eloquence is in the assembly, not merely in the speaker.

The enemies of freedom do not argue they shout and they shoot.

For they are yet ear-kissing arguments.

He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument.

It would be argument for a week, laughter for a month, and a good jest forever.

Stemming it with hearts of controversy.

Hear him debate of commonwealth affairs,You would say it hath been all in all his study.

A beast, that wants discourse of reason.

And sheath'd their swords for lack of argument.

Everyone is in favor of free speech. Hardly a day passes without its being extolled, but some people's idea of it is that they are free to say what they like, but if anyone else says anything back, that is an outrage.