Discourse Quotes

Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.

— Izaak Walton

Good discourse sinks differences and seeks agreements.

— Amos Bronson Alcott

“Humility is the true discourse of humanity.”

— Yash Thakur

A kind Of excellent dumb discourse.

— William Shakespeare

Change of weather is the discourse of fools.

— Thomas Fuller

Discourse is fleeting, but junk mail is forever.

— Joe Bob Briggs

Bad faith likes discourse on friendship and loyalty.

— Mason Cooley

“A philosopher's main task is to compulsively filibuster”

— Mohadesa Najumi

“Volatility in the up direction is not a problem-it's only downward volatility that offers discourse.”

— Coreen T. Sol

I think we do have a better understanding now of how moral thought and discourse function.

— Catherine Wilson

“Discourse, it's good for the soul… civil... or otherwise, which… do YOU prefer??”

— Anonymous

Informed opponents of Obama's healthcare initiative have expressed dismay at the low level of discourse.

— Carl Hiaasen

Since I became a knitting humor writer, I seem to be understood a little better - at least for the purposes of…

— Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

Discourse on virtue and they pass by in droves. Whistle and dance the shimmy, and you've got an audience.

— Diogenes

Prose-it might be speculated-is discourse; poetry ellipsis. Prose is spoken aloud; poetry overheard.

— Joyce Carol Oates

A man's behavior is the index of the man, and his discourse is the index of his understanding.

— Ali ibn Abi Talib

“What is realized in the novel is the process of coming to know one's own language as it is perceived in someone…

— Mikhail Bakhtin

In Israel, there is this reduction of the political discourse to something that is very limited. It's as if you have that…

— Etgar Keret

I heard many discourses which were good for the soul, but I could not discover in the case of any one of…

— Saint Basil

Our country's political discourse and debate are enriched by discussions of the political implications of our faith traditions, whether they are taking…

— Anonymous

Jamie Kilstein and Allison Kilkenny have created an important political radio show that balances humor and unreported news. At a time when…

— Noam Chomsky

When something really bad is going on in a culture, the average guy doesn't see it. He can't. He's average and is…

— George Saunders

For the sake of public discourse, for the demands of the free market, and for the value we place in citizen advocacy,…

— Christine Pelosi

Set a page in Fournier against another in Caslon and another in Plantin and it is as if you heard three different…

— Beatrice Warde

Scientific practice is above all a story-telling practice. ... Biology is inherently historical, and its form of discourse is inherently narrative. ...…

— Donna J. Haraway

A principle familiar to propagandists is that the doctrine to be instilled in the target audience should not be articulated: that would…

— Noam Chomsky

In general, in America, every discourse in literature in 15 minutes degenerates into a conversation about ethics, morality and this and that.…

— Joseph Brodsky

Part of the puzzle, surely, lies in the disconnect between official rhetoric and lived realities. Americans are constantly extolling “traditions”; litanies to…

— Susan Sontag

Every one knows the veneration which was paid by the Jews to a name so great, wonderful, and holy. They would not…

— Joseph Addison

Prose-it might be speculated-is discourse; poetry ellipsis. Prose is spoken aloud; poetry overheard. The one is presumably articulate and social, a shared…

— Joyce Carol Oates

In the absence of any written analogue to speech, the sensible, natural environment remains the primary visual counterpart of spoken utterance, the…

— David Abram

This, then, is the truth of the discourse of universal human rights: the Wall separating those covered by the umbrella of Human…

— Slavoj Žižek

[I]f a man bred to the seafaring life, and accustomed to think and talk only of matters relating to navigation, enters into…

— Thomas Reid

The tragedy is that in the name of resisting the internal deterioration of faith and the corruption of the world around them,…

— James Davison Hunter

“Although scholars such as Butler have debated such approaches as reinforcing problematic identity models and creating an either/or distinction, Lather is referring…

— Jill Green

“I call the discourse of power any discourse which engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient. Some expect of us as intellectuals…

— Roland Barthes

Just as a moral distinction is drawn between "those at risk" and "those posing a risk", health education routinely draws a distinction…

— Deborah Lupton

What else is it that should trace the insuperable line? Is it the faculty of reason or perhaps the faculty of discourse?…

— Jeremy Bentham

“If woman has always functioned "within" the discourse of man, a signifier that has always referred back to the opposite signifier which…

— Hélène Cixous

A father would do well, as his son grows up, and is capable of it, to talk familiarly with him; nay, ask…

— John Locke