Discourse Quotes · Page 5

Of all Discourse , governed by desire of Knowledge, there is at last an End , either by attaining, or by giving over.

— Thomas Hobbes

Sweet discourse makes short daies and nights. [Sweet discourse makes short days and nights.]

— George Herbert

Things it is not polite to discuss at the dinner table: politics, religion, and the walking dead.

— Mira Grant

To counter the fixation on a rhetoric of victimhood, black folks must engage in a discourse of self-determination.

— Bell Hooks

The search for the means to put an end to things, an end to speech, is what enables the discourse to continue.

— Samuel Beckett

Unlike the past decades, the present moment is lacking in architectural discourse.

— Lebbeus Woods

It is dangerous to engage in even the most innocuous-seeming discourse with the FBI/ Homeland Security/ a local detective.

— Ingrid Newkirk

It is still possible to have friendly discourse in America, as long as you don't bring up any subject.

— Robert Breault

“The real purpose of the opposition is to minimize the amount of money the ruling party will have stolen from the people…

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

In our democracy and our civic discourse, it seems as if folks who take religion the most seriously are sometimes also those…

— Barack Obama

Spokespeople sell women the Iron Maiden and name her "Health": if public discourse were really concerned with women's health, it would turn…

— Naomi Wolf

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

The philosophers talk across the centuries exclusively to one another, hermetically sealed from any influences derived from non-philosophical discourse.

— Rebecca Goldstein

I have a whole lot of fun in trying to serve others and just keeping it funky, trying to keep it real,…

— Cornel West

The mention of one apartment in a building naturally introduces an enquiry or discourse concerning the others: and if we think ofa…

— David Hume

Reason is a faculty far larger than mere objective force. When either the political or the scientific discourse announces itself as the…

— Anonymous

Whenever I become discouraged (which is on alternate Tuesdays, between three and four) I lift my spirits by remembering: The artists are…

— Howard Zinn

While believing strongly, without evidence, is considered a mark of madness or stupidity in any other area of our lives, faith in…

— Sam Harris

Then I speak to her in a language she has never heard, I speak to her in Spanish, in the tongue of…

— Pablo Neruda

To describe this film as dishonest and demagogic would almost be to promote those terms to the level of respectability. To describe…

— Christopher Hitchens

Good as is discourse, silence is better, and shames it. The length of the discourse indicates the distance of thought betwixt the…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

By consequence, or train of thoughts, I understand that succession of one thought to another which is called, to distinguish it from…

— Thomas Hobbes

The most superficial fact regarding the 'Discourses,' the fact that the number of its chapters equals the number of books of Livy's…

— Leo Strauss

Television is our culture's principal mode of knowing about itself. Therefore -- and this is the critical point -- how television stages…

— Neil Postman

When I look at the Republicans, I am tempted to dismiss them as the Treason Party. Seriously, were a band of traitors…

— Neil Steinberg

“The point is that television does not reveal who the best man is. In fact, television makes impossible the determination of who…

— Neil Postman

Our tragedy today is not just that millions of people who called themselves communist or socialist were physically liquidated in Vietnam, Indonesia,…

— Arundhati Roy

People knew there were two ways of coming at truth. One was science, or what the Greeks called Logos, reason, logic. And…

— Karen Armstrong

What does it really mean to be a leftist in the early part of the 21st century? What are we really talking…

— Cornel West

Johnson is wise, Boswell foolish; Johnson warns and abstains, Boswell plunges; Johnson is rather a great man writing than a greatwriter, Boswell…

— Marvin Mudrick

I have received your letter of the 6th, with the eloquent discourse delivered at the consecration of the Jewish Synagogue. Having ever…

— James Madison

The Left doesn't understand the importance of God in the Israeli public discourse, and Yesh Atid does.

— Yair Lapid

Affectation hath always had a greater share both in the action and discourse of men than truth and judgment have.

— Aphra Behn

The most tedious of all discourses are on the subject of the Supreme Being.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Reading makes a full man, meditation a profound man, discourse a clear man.

— Benjamin Franklin

We are all full of discourses that we only half understand and half mean.

— Rae Armantrout

Self-criticism expands the opportunities for discourse and eliminates the need for an adversary.

— Mason Cooley

Allegories, when well chosen, are like so many tracks of light in a discourse, that make everything about them clear and beautiful.

— Joseph Addison

The skilful class of flatterers praise the discourse of an ignorant friend and the face of a deformed one.

— Juvenal

The grandest discourse ever delivered is an ostentatious failure if the doctrine of the grace of God be absent from it.

— Charles Spurgeon