Quotes About Discussion

I spend a lot of time on forums, and they drive me crazy.

Politics is - once in a while - a forum for serious debate about political philosophy.

I believe in a free market of ideas and not shying away from debate.

The foundation of our democracy is the ability to have a debate about any subject. That is why I am so committed to defending free speech.

Imageboards are the most important medium for free speech on the Internet.

Only by a frank discussion of the very details of dying can we best deal with those aspects that frighten us the most. It is by knowing the truth... that we rid ourselves of that fear of the terra incognita of death.

Canberra can be a bit of a debating society from time to time.

I know 'Dabangg' has some pre-requisites. Every film has some requisites that you have to fulfill. I sat down with my writer and discussed what as an audience I want to see in the second part of the film. We worked towards that and we hope what we thought connects with the audience.

It's important to know where candidates for president are getting their ideas. Where do these ideas come from, who funds them and who is shaping our political discussion? These are all questions that are important to a healthy democracy.

I'm not done arguing with you, Mrs.Fletcher. I'm going to convince you yet. Well I reckon I got ten or twenty more years in me before I pass on, Granny told him. So feel free to take your time.

Books are not cake—you and I can devour the same book, and there it remains for us and others to devour all over again.

Any suggestion that what is offered in that marketplace should at least be an idea rather than a raw appeal to passion is met with cries of Censorship! Those who cry the most loudly, however, are not always concerned to preserve freedom of discussion. More often, discussion is what they want to prevent, and they have discovered that reciting the ritual word censorship is an effective way to do it.

At a political science convention which I attended some years ago, one of the speakers mentioned toward the end of his talk that the education code of every state in the Union gives the public schools a mandate to form moral character. In the discussion period that followed a young woman with a marked Southern accent protested: Ah am shocked by what Ah just heard—it goes against everything Ah learned in graduate school!

The purpose of argument is to change the nature of truth.

The hair-splitters up there will welcome any point

He was too tired to take in all of the consequences of the story; they led him into unaccustomed areas of thought, toward abstract notions more suited for discussion by the officials of the court than by him.

You see, Willhem, he admits that he doesn't know the Law and yet he claims he's innocent. You're right there, but he can't seem to understand anything, said the other. K. said nothing more; why should I let the idle talk of these lowly agents - they admit themselves that's what they are - confuse me further? he thought. After all, they're discussing things they don't understand. Their confidence is based solely on ignorance.

What I seek is simply a public discussion of a public disgrace.

Marvel's storytelling is much wilder than 'The OA's,' but no one talks about that.

The biggest thing that I get most excited about is, my family and I would watch television together, and we weren't just passive viewers. Something would happen, and then we would talk about it. When Will Smith was shot on 'Fresh Prince,' that sparked a conversation about safety.

Ideas for my first experiments in human aggression came from discussions we had in a research seminar about William Golding's 'Lord of the Flies.'

However, I am willing to hear what you can produce from Scripture in favor of any kind of slavery.

I discovered in writing the biography of Bill Clinton that it is actually easier to write a biography of someone who is dead. Although you can't interview them, you have a fuller perspective on their whole life after they're gone and people are more willing to talk about them.

The theoretical postulate of all diplomatic discussion between nations is the assumed willingness of every nation to do justice.