Discourse Quotes · Page 6

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

— Joseph Addison

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

— Bell Hooks

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

— Mira Grant

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

— Robert Breault

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

— Ingrid Newkirk

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

— Yair Lapid

The unification of opposites which characterizes the commercial and political style is one of the many ways in which discourse and communication…

— Herbert Marcuse

Cities, like dreams, are made of desires and fears, even if the thread of their discourse is secret, their rules are absurd,…

— Italo Calvino

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

Rational discourse is only one way of presenting and examining an issue and by no means the best. Our new intellectuals are…

— Paul Feyerabend

Not in books only, nor yet in oral discourse, but often also in words there are boundless stores of moral and historic…

— Richard Whately

“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

My mother was Irish; she had this great sense of humor, and both my parents loved films. There was a very vibrant…

— Martin Donovan

[The sceptic] must acknowledge, if he will acknowledge any thing, that all human life must perish, were his principles to prevail.All discourse,…

— David Hume

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

The practice of hinting by single letters those expletives with which profane and violent persons are wont to garnish their discourse, strikes…

— Charlotte Bronte

No longer is the body a temple to be worshipped as the house of God; it has become a commodified and regulated…

— Deborah Lupton

I reject totally the characterization of a transwoman as a mutilated man. First, that formulation presumes that men born into that sex…

— Judith Butler

Mathematical demonstrations being built upon the impregnable Foundations of Geometry and Arithmetick are the only truths that can sink into the Mind…

— Christopher Wren

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

The discourse of the West and the attitudes of its leaders are important because they influence public debate in Turkey.

— Safak Pavey

Let your Discourse with Men of Business be Short and Comprehensive.

— George Washington

If Shakespeare required a word and had not met it in civilized discourse, he unhesitatingly made it up.

— Amy Koppelman

We need to regain the art of civil discourse and more practically, I don't think you change anyone's mind by calling them…

— Steven Petrow

“There is nothing in discourse that is not to be found in a sentence.”

— Roland Barthes

“One says the things which one feels the need to say, and which the other will not understand: one speaks for oneself…

— Marcel Proust

The level of discourse in this country is falling to a depth that cannot be sustained.

— Martin Frost

I hold to the idea that civility, understood as the willingness to engage in public discourse, is the first virtue of citizens.

— Mark Kingwell

A moral lesson is better expressed in short sayings than in long discourse.

— Anonymous

The fund of sensible discourse is limited; that of jest and badinerie is infinite.

— William Shenstone

...But why discourse Upon the Virtues of the Horse? They are too numerous to tell Save when you have a Horse to…

— Josh Billings

The level of discourse reaching a mailbox simply cannot be limited to that which would be suitable for a sandbox.

— John Paul Stevens

Atheists have just as much of a right to the public discourse as any ... people of any religious faith in this country.

— Al Gore

The poet's spoken discourse often depends on a mystique, on the spiritual freedom that finds itself enslaved on earth.

— Salvatore Quasimodo

Uncommon expressions are a disfigurement rather than an embellishment of discourse.

— David Hume

I'm not a journalist; I'm a poet. I had a discourse, an encounter with these people but I never had a list…

— Werner Herzog