When permitted to listen to alternative opinions and engage in substantive debate, people have been known to change their minds. It can… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
The one hour live debate in the West Wing that we did was one of the most exciting times for me on… — Alan Alda Copy Share Image
I think film should raise questions, not give answers. I think film should challenge people to reflect, debate and get by themselves… — Diego Luna Copy Share Image
The politics of transgender identity are really complicated. And the debate over how much of gender is biological and how much of… — Jess Row Copy Share Image
We have a policy at Greenpeace that we no longer debate people who don't accept the scientific reality of anthropogenic climate change. — Ben Stewart Copy Share Image
Say the first word. Set the tone for the conversation. Be poised, prepared, and ready to say the first word in any… — Gloria Feldt Copy Share Image
I think a lot of people view the death penalty as a debate class or something. The cost and what's at stake… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
When a person's religious beliefs cause him to deny the evidence of science, or for whom public policy morphs into a battle… — Lawrence M. Krauss Copy Share Image
As soon as one point alone is removed from the sphere of dogmatic certainty, the discussion will not simply result in a… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
Hume's doctrine was that the circumstances vary, the amount of happiness does not; that the beggar cracking fleas in the sunshine under… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If I believe in something, I will fight for it with all I have. But I do not demand all or nothing.… — Hubert H. Humphrey Copy Share Image
What is the role of an academic - no matter what they're teaching - within political debate? It has to be that… — Mary Beard Copy Share Image
Television is much more difficult because at every moment, the network can force you to change things based on their belief about… — Judd Apatow Copy Share Image
When governments rely increasingly on sophisticated public relations agencies, public debate disappears and is replaced by competing propaganda campaigns, with all the… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
“Even when we're right, we may be wrong. If--in the process of debate--we've hurt the heart of another being, it matters not… — Shakieb Orgunwall Copy Share Image
In the humanist ideal, the mainstream is where interesting debate, the generating of new ideas and creativity take place. In rational society… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
We work on macro issues and macaroni and cheese issues. When women are in the halls of power, our national debate reflects… — Barbara Mikulski Copy Share Image
“There are a lot of things we all know that don't want to face. I hope you already know that. It will… — Richard D. Wolff Copy Share Image
Too much of our political debate...has become a race to the bottom. An exchange of insults and slanders more appropriate to reality… — Jeanne Shaheen Copy Share Image
“Explicit arguments are the everlasting combat tools of a debate winner. Not the raising of the voice.” — Klaudio Marashi Copy Share Image
It seems to me that this debate, whether Islam is a religion of peace or not, really, it's irrelevant for outsiders. It's… — Chuck Todd Copy Share Image
Consider the case of a person who holds a view with probability 1. Then coherence says that it is no use having… — Dennis Lindley Copy Share Image
“It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it. Joseph Joubert I” — Justin Brierley Copy Share Image
From the day I was elected, I began focusing on governing the best way I know how - transparently, openly, and in… — Ned Lamont Copy Share Image
Harvard is a wondrously tolerant climate for debate and exchange among a wide variety of thoughts, backgrounds, and beliefs, but the voice… — Alexandra Petri Copy Share Image
Whether someone else would have played Superman better or worse would be up for a lot of debate on the internet forums,… — Henry Cavill Copy Share Image
Good conversational debate is an end in itself, and talking for the love of conversation is what makes us human. — Bryce Courtenay Copy Share Image
A lot of debate goes into the writing but I don't think a show can be destroyed. It's a TV show not… — Charlie Day Copy Share Image
Don't forget during the primary debates when Trump pointed at Carly Fiorina and said, "Look at that face, who would vote for… — Maxine Waters Copy Share Image
There are certainly major differences between Poland's policies and those of the old EU countries. Debates are going on in Brussels over… — Lech Kaczynski Copy Share Image
The reason that democracies always defeat dictatorships is because they're open to debate. We should never allow Washington to say, 'Shut up,… — Ralph Nader Copy Share Image
I am broadly concerned about the slow death of free speech, but particularly in universities and also with regards to the climate… — Judith Curry Copy Share Image
The problem with the immigration debate, it's probably is the most poisoned and political debate of any issue, because you have this… — Greg Gutfeld Copy Share Image
I stated at Justice [John] Roberts' hearing, the court's injected itself into many of the political debates of our day. — Sam Brownback Copy Share Image
Debate is almost non-existent and no one is apparently accountable to anybody apart from their political party bosses. It is bad news… — Helen Suzman Copy Share Image
When men abandon reason, physical force becomes their only means of dealing with one another and of settling disagreements. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Dad was always that way: who's the candidate that's best for this country? We can debate theology later - that was his… — Jerry Falwell, Jr Copy Share Image
We can know nothing till after this grave debate. The soul must withdraw, for this is not its hour. Now the knife… — Georges Duhamel Copy Share Image
In 1960, John F. Kennedy rode a superior televised debate performance to victory over Richard Nixon. — Fabrizio Moreira Copy Share Image
[John Adams] is impressed with [Tomas] Jefferson's learning, but noted his silence during the debates in the Congress: "I never heard him… — Gordon S. Wood Copy Share Image
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