Quotes About Debate

In Britain, the theatre has traditionally been where the public goes to think about its past and debate its future. The formation of the National Theatre, at the Old Vic, near the South Bank, in 1963, institutionalized the symbolic importance of drama by giving it both a building and state funding.

I love that there's such a rivalry. It's like, leaf water versus bean water, ya know?

I almost wished he'd debated Cassidy in her ridiculous Harry Potter costume, so she could've wiped the smirk off his muggle face.

that would drag on inconclusively for most of the next three centuries.

Los perfiles ideológicos se han desdibujado y en su lugar predomina una lucha de la inteligencia contra la estupidez.

People who say that Calvinists teach predestination and deny free will, and that Arminians deny predestination and teach free will are simply wrong.

Discussion is impossible with someone who claims not to seek the truth, but already to possess it.

Tolerance does not grow with banning what is thought to be unpalatable; it grows with arguing and talking about it; for that which is unpalatable gets discarded.

The Mahabharata can be viewed as a civilizational text not because it reflects the propagation of a particular view of these dharmas but because, among other things, it speaks to the debate on social ethics, especially between the brahmanical perspective and those that question it—a debate that has continued over many centuries.

The law is whatever is successfully argued and plausibly maintained

We need to understand the more government spends, the more freedom is lost...Instead of simply debating spending levels, we ought to be debating whether the departments, agencies, and programs funded by the budget should exist at all.

You have to remember, rights don't come in groups we shouldn't have 'gay rights'; rights come as individuals, and we wouldn't have this major debate going on. It would be behavior that would count, not what person belongs to what group.

Even today, authors who claim correctly, as Patrick Buchanan does in his book Churchill, Hitler, and the Unnecessary War, that both World War I and World War II were "unnecessary wars" are shunned and ridiculed. Such a suggestion is so at odds with how history is taught in most US schools that many people are unwilling to even consider arguments backing Buchanan's conclusion.

Taking a stance on an issue and supporting that stance with sound reasoning is an important skill. However, taking a stance on issues too quickly and rushing to defend

I agree with just about everyone in the reform debate when they say 'If you like what you have, you should be able to keep it.' But the truth is that none of the health reform bills making their way through Congress actually delivers on that promise.

ils fracassaient autour d'eux un idiome de castagnettes en brandissant au-dessus de leurs têtes des mains crispées dans un vent d'arguments.

This sort of thing has got to be stopped. Bad philosophers are like slum landlords. It's my job to put them out of business.

Where two principles really do meet which cannot be reconciled with one another, then each man declares the other a fool and a heretic

Philosophy, as we use the word, is a fight against the fascination which forms of expression exert upon us.

Reading the Socratic dialogues one has the feeling: what a frightful waste of time! What's the point of these arguments that prove nothing and clarify nothing?

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

Philosophy limits the disputable sphere of natural science.

A new word is like a fresh seed sown on the ground of the discussion

At the end of reasons comes persuasion.