Quotes About Debate

Controversial means somebody who makes people think. And if you are afraid of people who will be against you, you might as well stay home and do nothing.

Everything controversial is good for boxing.

It's so easy to create a controversy.

With social media there seems to be controversy at everything.

What you want to do is make people talk, start a conversation.

All I do is convert liberals to conservatism. That's what I do, and that's why they don't like me.

I'm not out to convince anybody of anything.

Arguing, in the sense of attempting to convince others, has gone out of fashion with conservatives.

I am such a coward when it comes to political arguments. I tend to sort of recoil rather than engage.

Climate change is crap.

I think any List of Best X creates arguments and people saying 'You listed that rubbish?' That's what lists like this are for.

Creationists have often made me doubt evolution, but probably not in the way they think.

Liberalism has never done as well as it thinks at resolving its own crises.

Football without critics wouldn't be football.

First of all, I am not an expert on matters on different economic systems, but in my normal social intercourse with my friends we discussed matters like that.

You can much better have an influence on the debate when you sit at the bargaining table and you can give input.

When my brothers and I were young, my mom, a Democrat, and my dad, a Republican, used to lead freewheeling discussions at our dinner table. The only rule was paying attention when others were talking, and no interrupting.

In the French culture, they talk politics. I didn't find it was part of our culture to have political arguments at the table. My husband's family will get into major politics, and it's not an aggressive thing. It's so interesting and you learn so much, whether it's Right or Left, and that to me has been really great.

I never, ever, when I entered this process of running for president of the United States, thought I would be excluded from the debate table. Ever. What does two terms as governor get you?

The most enduring Top 10 ever written wasn't written at all, but chiseled onto stone tablets and conveyed down Mount Sinai by Moses, who introduced to the world not just a set of Biblical precepts but also a new format for starting arguments: the list of 10 things.

The bottom line is: It is fine to have issues with President Trump; I've had them myself. The thing is, though, the best way to argue against the things that you disagree with is never to use abusive tactics.

Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life. Too many of us divide and dissipate our energies in debating actions which should be taken for granted.

A philosopher who is not taking part in discussions is like a boxer who never goes into the ring.

The advice I've been giving to people all my life - that you may not be interested in the dialectic but the dialectic is interested in you; you can't give up politics, it won't give you up - was the advice I should have been taking myself.