Quotes About Debate

One man's word is no man's word we should quietly hear both sides.

It's irrelevant whether what one says is true or false: both will be contradicted.

A good argument, like a good dialogue, is always a proof of life, but I'd much rather go and read a book.

Global warming is the greatest and most successful pseudoscientific fraud I have seen in my long life as a physicist.

Fast food is hugely important in the life of a comedy writer. All we do is order in, and what we're going to eat is hotly debated.

Atheism, a religion dedicated to its own sense of smug superiority.

I know not, sir, whether Bacon wrote the works of Shakespeare, but if he did not, it seems to me that he missed the opportunity of his life.

I don't like the discussions about whether photography is an art. Even though I think that if it would be just a craft I would not have stayed with it all my life.

The Beatles are not merely awful. I would consider it sacrilegious to say anything less than that they are godawful.

Art thrives on a difference of opinion. My treasure is your junk, sort of thing. Life would be dull if we all agreed.

It is true that I have known Straussians almost all my life. And the one thing I was taught about them from the earliest age is that they are wrong.

The arguments for purity of life fail of their due influence, not because they have been considered and confuted, but because they have been passed over without consideration.

Monsieur l'abbé, I detest what you write, but I would give my life to make it possible for you to continue to write.

"It's broccoli, dear.""I say it's spinach, and I say the hell with it."

We can argue about it in hell.

The revolution which could bring about the overthrow of the political power of the Catholic Church in Austria was based, not on debate, but behavior: "We do not discuss the existence or non-existence of God — we merely eliminate the sexual repressions and dissolve the infantile ties to the parents" (ibid).

Their assemblies had taught the Athenians how to discuss all matters openly, with arguments for and against. This was good training in learning how to think.

He and Evie soon fell into a conversation of the "No, I didn't; yes, you did" type—conversation which, although fascinating to those who are engaged in it, neither desires nor deserves the attention of others.

Albert Camus, que en cierta ocasión dijo: «Un hombre con el que no se puede razonar es un hombre al que hay que temer.»

It's like making a milkshake without the lid on,' wrote a Turkish twitter user, trying to describe the impossibility of having a proper political discussion with ErdoÄŸan supporters.

Outrage has no time for dialogue, and it won't be distracted by nuance or even truth.

The sounder your argument, the more satisfaction you get out of it.

You may easily play a joke on a man who likes to argue -- agree with him.

The majority of us are for free speech when it deals with subjects concerning which we have no intense feelings.