Quotes About Dialogue

What I had come to love about book club (besides the fabulous desserts and free liquor) was how in hearing so many opinions about the same book, your own opinion expanded, as if you'd read the book several times instead of just once.

Take away the violence and who will hear the men of peace?

even arguing with you is better than not having you around to argue with." Rafe looked over at Sebastian. "Does he always talk this much?" "Afraid so, but every now and then he does say something worth listening to.

of each other, and I daresay we'd all be rather boring.

Society matters not so much. Words are everything.

The prime purpose of eloquence is to keep other people from talking.

Fathers represent another way of looking at life — the possibility of an alternative dialogue.

Still, it had been a revealing exchange, and that was his job. To get people to reveal themselves.

Nature is talking to us all the time, it's just hearing that's the problem.

right. The goal of any healthy society was to keep people safe to express sometimes unpopular views.

They looked at each other, and then, in unison, all three said, "Tell me what you know.

Why only one song, one speech, one text at a time?" - "When Our Lips Speak Together

The people who were content with each other spoke as little as those who bristled with resentment or boredom; it was the rhythm of their speech that differed, like a lazy tennis ball batted back and forth or the quick swattings of a fly. *

He once saw two philosophers engaged in a very unedifying game of cross questions and crooked answers. 'Gentlemen,' said he, 'here is one man milking a billy-goat, and another catching the proceeds in a sieve.

Basta darsi una guardatina intorno per rendersi conto: il dialogo, la solidarietà umana, il bisogno di agorà, il dividersi ogni giorno le gioie e i dolori, sono tutte prerogative dei popoli poveri, così come la privacy è figlia naturale della ricchezza.

Being out and about talking to residents and representing their views is, in my view, as important to politics as the grandstanding that takes place in Westminster.

O]nly where man communicates with man, only in speech, a social act, awakes reason. … It is not until man has reached an advanced stage of culture that he can double himself, so as to play the part of another within himself.

I really love having smart and important conversations on TV.

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

True confession? The reason we don't talk about race is because we do not speak a common language.

I got something to say to you, big shot. Say it, then, I said, while I'm used to the drone of your voice. I'd rather not get acclimated again.

You and I ought not to die,before we have explained ourselves to each other.

But why at least? What a business it is, the human discourse. I

Only in the life of dialogue and community can we truly live and grow.