Quotes About Discussion

Women are more emotional, and it's natural to talk about it.

It's unexpected for women's issues to be brought up in places other than women's centers on college campuses or crisis places.

I'm not good at debating - I'm much better at pontificating.

Almost all the voices in history have been men, but on this one question of gender, men don't talk about it. This has nothing to do with women; it has to do with men.

The problem with the way we discuss gender is that it tends to be "Let's sympathize with women" or "Let's sympathize with men."

What the nation's built on is discussion, contradiction and growth, and at the moment you can't discuss anything. If you do start to discuss it, you get criticized. If people hate us, you have to find out why and try to solve that problem.

Debate is healthy and no one in this chamber - starting with me - has a monopoly on being right.

We don't we agree that litigation reform to lower the cost of healthcare would be a good starting point?

The starting point for English work must be the ability to handle effectively their own experience. Oral work, written work and the discussion of literature must create an atmosphere in which the pupils become confident of the full acceptability of the material of their own experience.

By the time the discussion starts about a movie, it's like bringing up an old boyfriend. It's like, 'I don't even remember exactly what he was like, and now we have to talk about it?'

The general statement that the mental faculties are class concepts, belonging to descriptive psychology, relieves us of the necessity of discussing them and their significance at the present stage of our inquiry.

There are lots of statements that have been made and haven't led to change and reform. For me, the broader discussion around racism - education is key.

The subject of bisexuality really needs much more discussion. It's a status that does exist.

It's hard in today's society to have a discussion where you want to challenge the status quo because of the 'I gotcha' politics.

Good or bad, if people still talk about you it means that you have managed to stay relevant.

More and more couples are having this negotiation or discussion, but I'm still amazed at the number who aren't and where the cultural norm sort of kicks in and they just assume that mom's got to be the one who stays home, not dad.

Drafting a constitution is only the first step. The constitution has to be granted legitimacy by open discussion and a fair, representative referendum.

Everybody has a right to be defended, and every lawyer has a duty to defend people accused. And my office is to defend him, to discuss the accusation point by point, as I think this is a normal step in a democracy.

Geekiness is that feeling of overwhelming passion for that thing in life that you focus on. Whether it be a nephew's first few steps or the timbre in one's voice when discussing the latest Cohen brothers film.

Freedom and order are not incompatible... truth is strength... free discussion is the very life of truth.

Difference of opinion is helpful in religion.

Principled, informed arguments are a sign of intellectual health and vitality in a democracy.

The defects of every government and constitution both as to principle and form, must, on a parity of reasoning, be as open to discussion as the defects of a law, and it is a duty which every man owes to society to point them out.

To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.