To glorify democracy and to silence the people is a farce; to discourse on humanism and to negate people is a lie. — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
Intellectual discourse and investigation is admittedly great fun but only truly meaningful when conducted in the service of others. — Sergio De La Pava Copy Share Image
“we should be thinking more about the fault-lines and fractures that underlie dominant male discourse.” — Mary Beard Copy Share Image
As I say, I'm a discourse advocate. What form it comes is less important to me than the fact that there is… — Jim Lehrer Copy Share Image
Be not too hasty to trust or to admire the teachers of morality; they discourse like angels, but they live like men. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Where two discourse, if the anger of one rises, he is the wise man who lets the contest fall. — Plutarch Copy Share Image
I'm in the civil discourse business. I think it takes all kinds. And more power to everybody. — Jim Lehrer Copy Share Image
Sermons remain one of the last forms of public discourse where it is culturally forbidden to talk back. — Harvey Cox Copy Share Image
Modernist discourse [...] incorporates semantic devices - such as the labeling of theism as 'religion' and naturalism as 'science' - that work… — Phillip E. Johnson Copy Share Image
In common discourse we denominate persons and things according to the major part of their character; he is to be called a… — Isaac Watts Copy Share Image
Not in books only, nor yet in oral discourse, but often also in words there are boundless stores of moral and historic… — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
This discourse, and the present frame of my mind, lead me rather to speak to those, who by feeling Satan's fiery darts,… — George Whitefield Copy Share Image
Rational discourse is only one way of presenting and examining an issue and by no means the best. Our new intellectuals are… — Paul Feyerabend Copy Share Image
But one did not do feminist theory, as such, in those days, not only because male academic discourse did not recognize such… — Teresa de Lauretis Copy Share Image
It's pretty standard fare in political discourse. You misconstrue what somebody said. You isolate a statement, you lend your interpretation to it… — John F. Kerry Copy Share Image
The Journal of Discourses ranks as one of the standard works of the Church, and every right-minded Saint will certainly welcome with… — George Q. Cannon Copy Share Image
I believe that one of the most damning things about our culture is the adage to never talk religion and politics. Because… — Julianna Baggott Copy Share Image
I think we should be very clear on this. You know, this country was founded on the principles of the Enlightenment... It… — Wesley Clark Copy Share Image
Our growing ability to eliminate the slow-moving aspects of entertainment and go hopping from one peak to another is not without cost.… — William Raspberry Copy Share Image
Silence is the universal refuge, the sequel to all dull discourses and all foolish acts, a balm to our every chagrin, as… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Straight away, remove yourself from the field of spiritual progression , stay away from contemplation and skillful discourse, do not do research… — Abhinavagupta Copy Share Image
In a democratic society, as Max Weber said, what is possible is only possible because some people have demanded the impossible. The… — Eric Foner Copy Share Image
In discourse more sweet; For eloquence the soul, song charms the sense. Others apart sat on a hill retir'd, In thoughts more… — John Milton Copy Share Image
It is through an "intimate cessation of all intellectual operations" that the mind is laid bare. If nor, discourse maintains it in… — Georges Bataille Copy Share Image
The appearance in nineteenth-century psychiatry, jurisprudence, and literature of a whole series of discourses on the species and subspecies of homosexuality, inversion,… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
Have you ever noticed that the only metaphor we have in our public discourse for solving problems is to declare war on… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
“In America, everyone is entitled to an opinion, and it is certainly useful to have a few when a pollster shows up.… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
I wish to put together an imaginary nation. It is my belief that no other nation is possible, or rather, I believe… — Robin Blaser Copy Share Image
“If this constant sliding and hiding of meaning were true of conscious life, then we would of course never be able to… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
“In critical linguistic research, ‘discourse’ often denotes text and image in real-use contexts. The nature of discourse is multi-faceted: discourse itself constructs… — Helen Ringrow Copy Share Image
[Regarding] the soul, I'm a little wary of any discourse on that topic that pretends to have an answer, so I tend… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
It is becoming plain that our liberal regime of equality and personal freedom depends, more than most theorists of liberalism have been… — Mary Ann Glendon Copy Share Image
The reduction of political discourse to sound bites is one of the worst things that's happened in American political life. — John Silber Copy Share Image
Where wise actions are the fruit of life, wise discourse is the pollination. — Bryant H. McGill Copy Share Image
Promoting open and critical and respectful scientific discourse seems like a pretty good goal to me. — Susan Fiske Copy Share Image
On every formal visit a child ought to be of the party, by way of provisions for discourse. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Cosmopolitan discourse...provides one with a _public gaze_ with which one can relate oneself to others in a different way.” — Namsoon Kang Copy Share Image
I believe that we will elevate and differentiate the discourse of cinema the more we discuss image creation in specific terms. — Guillermo del Toro Copy Share Image
Nothing is more detestable than a professed declaimer who retails his discourses as a quack does his medicines. — Jean Baptiste Massillon Copy Share Image
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