The debates are part of the unconscionable fraud that our political campaigns have become a format that defies meaningful discourse. They should… — Walter Cronkite Copy Share Image
Of our thinking it is but the upper surface that we shape into articulate thought; underneath the region of argument and conscious… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
I always attempt to challenge and upend discourses that appear to be disinterestedly describing the world, but that are in fact wholly… — Richard Marshall Copy Share Image
One would think that the larger the company is in which we are engaged, the greater variety of thoughts and subjects would… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Gossip is the currency of the discourse, so you should shut up about yourself. Never confess, never explain, never apologize, and never… — Dave Hickey Copy Share Image
Everything in our background has prepared us to know and resist a prison when the gates begin to close around us .… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
People who write about issues like poverty or terrorism are a part of the elite, and the distance between the elite and… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
Actual human discourse happens within a number of contexts, not in some sort of unified public forum. — Rowan Williams Copy Share Image
People will be surprised at the eagerness with which we went aboutpretending to rouse from its slumber a sexuality which everything-our discourses,… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
It is hard to know what you are talking about in mathematics, yet no one questions the validity of what you say.… — James Newman Copy Share Image
Prayer is not a discourse. It is a form of life, the life with God. That is why it is not confined… — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
You must lie upon the daisies and discourse in novel phrases of complicated state of mind. The meaning doesn't matter if it's… — W. S. Gilbert 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
Ethical maxims are bandied about as a sort of current coin of discourse, and, being never melted down for use, those that… — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
The short interregnum of civil society built on the ruins of the Bastille came to its end with the establishment of the… — Israel Shamir Copy Share Image
Sen. McCain and Gov. Palin are sowing the seeds of hatred and division, and there is no need for this hostility in… — John Lewis Copy Share Image
Let your Discourse with Men of Business be Short and Comprehensive. — George Washington Copy Share Image
As the growing emphasis on feelings crowds out reason, facts will play a smaller role in public discourse. — Paul Craig Roberts Copy Share Image
“Liberty is like those solid and tasty foods or those full-bodied wines which are appropriate for nourishing and strengthening robust constitutions that… — Rousseau Jean-Jacques 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
The lover`s discourse was of an extreme solitude. The solitude was extreme because it wasn`t physical. It was extreme because you felt… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
The United States has degenerated into a social order that is awash in public stupidity and views critical thought as both a… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Racial profiling punishes innocent individuals for the past actions of those who look and sound like them. It misdirects crucial resources and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Bound to seek recognition of its own existence in categories, terms, and names that are not of its own making, the subject… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
For me, graffiti and the complexities with which it is either absorbed or expelled from what is going on, is a really… — Richard Phillips Copy Share Image
