Quotes About Dialogue

When I get ready to talk to people, I spend two thirds of the time thinking what they want to hear and one third thinking about what I want to say.

If I did not speak with people who call me names, I could not engage in politics.

Never answer a question from a farmer.

He speaks to Me as if I was a public meeting.

Through talk, we tamed kings, restrained tyrants, averted revolution

I love to engage in repartee with people who are stupider than I am.

If you talk you always end up with politics, it gets nowhere. I mean man it's strictly from the soft typewriter.

I grew up in a household where we talked politics a lot and argued politics a lot.

There is a tendency to think that if we engage too directly with moral questions in politics, that's a recipe for disagreement, and for that matter, a recipe for intolerance and coercion.

It seems the natural thing for us to listen whilst the Europeans talk.

I don't think politics is any longer about a conversation with the country.

Before I got into politics, I wanted to be a missionary to people in the Middle East. I thought it would be better to speak with them in their own language.

Congress is so strange. A man gets up to speak and says nothing. Nobody listens then everybody disagrees.

Most people don't want to talk about politics and religion. They say, 'Let's talk about something else.'

You do not destroy an idea by killing people, you replace it with a better one.

I desire to have a dialogue that's positive, and communicative and moves forward, and is about something real, not just consumption.

But if you parry individuals points - a negative and defensive enterprise - you never step back and actively imagine a world in which a different system of ideas could be true - a positive act.

Listen. Don't just wait to talk.

The dialogue, as a form of exposition, has this disadvantage, that it stimulates the pugnacious, or, more politely speaking, the chivalrous instinct in human nature. One of the disputants invariably goes as a lamb to the slaughter, and his pre-arranged massacre cannot but stir our sympathy. Thus a feeling of antagonism to the writer's argument is aroused by the very form. There is a cat-and-mouse cruelty about the Socratic method against which our sense of justice, nay, of humanity, rebels.

A good debater is not necessarily an effective vote-getter: you can find a hole in your opponent's argument through which you could drive a coach and four ringing jingle bells all the way, and thrill at the crystallization of a truth wrung out from a bloody dialogue - which, however, may warm only you and your muse, while the smiling paralogist has in the meantime made votes by the tens of thousands.

operate on automatic and never reflect on our inner dialogue.

Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.

Those who champion democracy, but make a fetish of never accepting anything they don't agree with -- what advantage do they see in democracy?

What students lack in school is an intellectual relationship or conversation with the teacher.