Quotes About Discussion

Civility is not not saying negative or harsh things. It is not the absence of critical analysis. It is the manner in which we are sharing this territorial freedom of political discussion. If our discourse is yelled and screamed and interrupted and patronized, that's uncivil.

CAIR officials or former officials have been arrested on charges related to terrorism yet all it offers is silence and stonewalling in discussing what are its real motives.

If we are going to remake society in the image of the fight against terrorism and put that secret fight at the heart of our democratic order - which is the way we're heading - we need to discuss it, and in public.

If the abstract rights of man will bear discussion and explanation, those of women, by a parity of reasoning, will not shrink from the same test.

You have to test your ideas in a public forum.

Because of the Internet, we're all such authorities on every subject and can chat about all sorts of things. But when push comes to shove, when our ideas are put to the test, that's when we find out who we really are.

What do you two know about cocaine?' 'Goes well sprinkled on toast,

they were debating who was sexier out of Julia Roberts and Jennifer Lopez.

There is room for words on subjects other than last words.

Discussion is an exchange of knowledge an argument an exchange of ignorance.

These discussions are not just of historic interest. Keynes was the first economist to put uncertainty at the heart of the economic problem, and thus raise the issue of the scope and meaning of rationality in economics. Is rationality possible in an uncertain world, and how is it to be specified?

Much better left alone,' chimed in old Jack Linden sagely, 'argyfying about politics generally ends up with a bloody row an' does no good to nobody.

If it was true that all effort led to a vast abyss, she had two recommendations to begin with, first, not to cheat people, and, second, to treat them properly. Beyond that, there was room for discussion.

Then they talked about freedom and evil, about the highways of freedom where evil is like a Ferrari.

The drama may be called that part of theatrical art which lends itself most readily to intellectual discussion: what is left is theater.

Getting scientists to consider the validity of Indigenous knowledge is like swimming upstream in cold, cold water. They've been so conditioned to be skeptical of even the hardest of hard data that bending their minds toward theories that are verified without the expected graphs or equations is tough. Couple that with the unblinking assumption that science has cornered the market on truth and there's not much room for discussion.

Hannah was out of earshot, then turned to Caitlin.

All talk and discussion about God (theo-logy means god-talk) is really an exercise in human self-understanding.

disoriented. It was our house. He had stood on a porch and taken the snapshot through a window. I recognized the fireplace and its graceful mantel. And the chandelier! We had dined each evening at seven, the family together, discussing our day—we could have

You're going to kill him fast?"Graeme frowned, shedding his lab coat as Cullen handed him his weapon. "My dear, we need to discuss the idea of true pain. You'll rue the day if you show him mercy. Shall we discuss the merits of torture instead …" The frightening part was the fact that she seemed all too willing to listen.

He approached the stranger and drew his sword. Señor, he said, we will now discuss music.

These were the sorts of notions that had been raised in all my classes, and we had chased them round and round like dogs maddened by their tails.

Before he wrote about them, said Quilty, pretending to read the guidebook out loud, Hemingway shot his characters. It was considered an unusual but not unheard-of creative method. Still, even within literary circles, it is not that widely discussed.

Ours was a family in which everybody was constantly reading, and where literature, politics, history, and the events of the prize ring were discussed at breakfast, lunch, and dinner.