Quotes About Dialogue

The only way to make sure people you agree with can speak is to support the rights of people you don't agree with.

We have to face the fact that either all of us are going to die together or we are going to learn to live together, and if we are to live together we have to talk.

Understanding is a two-way street.

Arguing face to face can be a powerful thing, and done deftly and persistently, it can reinforce and build respect itself, even across major differences.

We must not contradict, but instruct him that contradicts us; for a madman is not cured by another running mad also.

A right word is the most direct route between two minds.

The more a person speaks the thoughts with the word 'YOU' , the less the people should lend their ears to his/her point of view.

The people who have closed mind do find NO SENSE in the open heart communication/conversation done by a person.

Once dialogue had come in, Nature herself discovered the appropriate measure. For the iambic is, of all measures, the most colloquial.

ALWAYS FULL OF QUESTIONS...How many times must I tell you, better to listen than to talk. But you're always talking...asking useless things...whatever for?" "Because I want to know.

We, on both sides, wrongly imagine that empathy with the "other" side brings an end to clearheaded analysis when, in truth, it's on the other side of that bridge that the most important analysis can begin.

the more that people confine themselves to likeminded company, the more extreme their views become.

Blah, said Toad.

There is evidence that as we become less exposed to opposing viewpoints, we become less logically competent as people.

Rule 4. Disagree better. Be part of a healthy competition of ideas.

the more willing we should be to listen and engage—especially if the person with whom we are in conversation will challenge our deeply held—even our most cherished and identity-forming—beliefs. . .

With all of the qualities of the scene-setting, the dialogue, the place and time and the time and place in which your characters move. And I want to move with the characters, move with them and describe the world in which they are living.

The Internet has compromised the quality of debate.

You know, for me, Facebook is now what Manachira ground in Kozhikode used to be. A meeting place of friends. It is where I speak up, listen to, quarrel and make up.

'RuPaul's Drag Race'... is very little about boys who dress up in girls' clothing: it's very much about grit, integrity, heart, power of perseverance, and the power of love. It's also opening a dialogue up about the persecution and the marginalization of trans people, of queer people, of gender non-binary and gender fluid people.

If I could meet Quentin Tarantino, I don't know if I'd just ask him one question. I'd probably milk it into, like, 500 questions.

I think music is great at posing a question. It doesn't always have to give the answer, but it can open the dialogue.

Many occasions I've sat down with Israelis to say, where do you see your country in 10 years time, and work me back, so we can figure out the synergies and the connections between Israel and the rest of the Arab world. No Israeli has ever been able to answer that question.

If somebody's not prepared to answer the question, you can keep asking.