Quotes About Debate

Scotland needs comedy more than ever. With the independence debate, finally after 300 years, reaching room temperature.

The climate is changing. That's not the debate. The debate is how do we know what the ideal surface temperature is in 2100?

I realize now that this was circular reasoning impregnable to debate.

Arguing leave the participants emotionally exhausted and mentally depressed.

Linguistic philosophers continue to argue that probably music is not a language, that is in the philosophical debate. Another point of view is to say that music is a very profound language.

Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.

It is an old habit with theologians to beat the living with the bones of the dead.

Arguments cannot be answered by personal abuse; there is no logic in slander, and falsehood, in the long run, defeats itself.

The theologians dead, knew no more than the theologians now living.

Any church that imprisons a man because he has used an argument against its creed, will simply convince the world that it cannot answer the argument.

So how can you say Jazz started in whorehouses when the musicianers didn't have no real need for them?

Convincing yourself doesn't win an argument

The whole principle [of censorship] is wrong. It's like demanding that grown men live on skim milk because the baby can't have steak.

The policy of repression of ideas cannot work and never has worked.

Discuta como si tuviera razón, escuche como si estuviese equivocado».

The price of freedom of religion, or of speech, or of the press, is that we must put up with a good deal of rubbish.

had come to accept that the court was an important forum where society, through battle, finds out and defines what it stands for.

The better idea doesn't have to win just because it is a better idea.

Sam grudgingly acknowledged the role of consciousness, but argued this, too, was based on unexamined assumptions, dependent on an unfounded faith in the collapse of quantum indeterminacy, and we debated the many minds theory, hidden variables, multiverses, and materialism until the coffee went cold and I'd managed to forget I was anything but pure consciousness myself.

It is easy to forget sometimes that a negotiation is not a debate. Nor is it a trial.

Over six feet tall, with a flowing handlebar mustache, he dressed in well-tailored suits and black bow ties and was a man of presence and intelligence. Rarely did he debate in public; the cloakroom, the back corridor, was where his work was done. A reporter with the New York Tribune noted the "side whiskers close cut" and the "brilliant dark eyes which he fastens closely upon the person with whom he is conversing.

Free speech is not the cause of the tensions that are growing around us, but the only possible solution to them.

Kant's position is extremely subtle – so subtle, indeed, that no commentator seems to agree with any other as to what it is.

Ideological opinion is not merely distinct from knowledge but the enemy of knowledge.