The discourses of the table among true loving friends are held in strict silence. — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
“There is no greater evil one can suffer than to hate reasonable discourse.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“In many a case, the phrase ‘I’d like to get to know you better’ is a euphemism for ‘I want us to… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Power is the ability to take one's place in whatever discourse is essential to action and the right to have one's part… — Carolyn Heilbrun Copy Share Image
I believe in poetic discourse, in the value of speech in a non-naturalistic way; it's speculative. — Howard Barker Copy Share Image
With sociolinguistics, after covering the basics of the field, I focused on discourse analysis. — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
Discourses on humility are a source of pride in the vain and of humility in the humble. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Every discourse, even a poetic or oracular sentence, carries with it a system of rules for producing analogous things and thus an… — Jacques Derrida Copy Share Image
“If we don't start caring about whether people tell the truth or not, it's going to be literally impossible to restore anything… — Al Franken Copy Share Image
With the requests of some he complied, and has published a discourse, delivered before the Society for recovering drowned persons, which may… — John Strachan Copy Share Image
Wishing to open my mouth, O brethren, and speak on the exalted theme of humility, I am filled with fear, even as… — Isaac of Nineveh Copy Share Image
Whatever universe a professor believes in must at any rate be a universe that lends itself to lengthy discourse. A universe definable… — William James Copy Share Image
The unification of opposites which characterizes the commercial and political style is one of the many ways in which discourse and communication… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
Cities, like dreams, are made of desires and fears, even if the thread of their discourse is secret, their rules are absurd,… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
It seems Korean women are enjoying a passive and fragile status, intoxicated by appearance. Not only feminism, but any serious discourse ends… — Kim Hyesoon Copy Share Image
I've become very interested in the spectrum of political discourse as seen on the cable news channels that are conveniently right in… — Chris Carter Copy Share Image
The practice of hinting by single letters those expletives with which profane and violent persons are wont to garnish their discourse, strikes… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
No longer is the body a temple to be worshipped as the house of God; it has become a commodified and regulated… — Deborah Lupton Copy Share Image
The idea, therefore, that religious faith is somehow a sacred human convention—distinguished, as it is, both by the extravagance of its claims… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“Endlessly I sustain the discourse of the beloved's absence; actually a preposterous situation; the other is absent as referent, present as allocutory.… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
I reject totally the characterization of a transwoman as a mutilated man. First, that formulation presumes that men born into that sex… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
Mathematical demonstrations being built upon the impregnable Foundations of Geometry and Arithmetick are the only truths that can sink into the Mind… — Christopher Wren Copy Share Image
As an artist who lives here and wants a more sophisticated engagement between local social dynamics and global discourse, it's great to… — Jon Rubin Copy Share Image
“Think about it. Politics is just a name for the way we get things done ... without fighting. We dicker and compromise… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Health education emphasizing risks is a form of pedagogy, which, like other forms, serves to legitimize ideologies and social practices. Risk discourse… — Deborah Lupton Copy Share Image
... we are obliged to produce the truth by the power that demands truth and needs it in order to function: we… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
We have entered an Orwellian era in which entitlement replaces responsibility, coercion is described as compassion, compulsory redistribution is called sharing, race… — Theodore J. Forstmann Copy Share Image
While self-interest arising from the enjoyment of meat eating is obviously one reason for its entrenchment, and inertia another, a process of… — Carol J. Adams Copy Share Image
He looked at a world of incredible loveliness. Old distaff Celt's blood in some back chamber of his brain moved him to… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
The soul contains few secrets and longings which cannot be sensibly discussed, analyzed, and polled. Solitude, the very condition which sustained the… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
“But there's one word. You look at any other term of political discourse, and you're going to find the same thing: the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Make no mistake about it: Law school is not a bastion of intellectual discourse. — Tucker Max Copy Share Image
A good discourse is that from which nothing can be retrenched without cutting into the quick. — Saint Francis de Sales Copy Share Image
