Virtually all political discourse in the days of my youth was devoted to the ferreting out of hypocrisy... Because they were hypocrites,… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
What does it really mean to be a leftist in the early part of the 21st century? What are we really talking… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
Language is not merely a set of unrelated sounds, clauses, rules, and meanings; it is a total coherent system of these integrating… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The public discourse on global warming has little in common with the standards of scientific discourse. Rather, it is part of political… — Richard Lindzen Copy Share Image
Religious faith is the only area of discourse where immunity through conversation is considered noble . It's the only area of our… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
All discourse of which others cannot partake is not only an irksome usurpation of the time devoted to pleasure and entertainment, but,… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The Jesuits were good educators, exceptional teachers. In an era and in a society where freedom of speech was not held in… — Pierre Trudeau Copy Share Image
Americans should not have to wonder if their government is actively looking to subvert them or their political views. We live in… — Mike Turner Copy Share Image
I wish to note that the level of discourse in Nigeria is abysmally low, and, usually, garnished with character assassination. We allow… — Dele Momodu Copy Share Image
I hope progressive ways of thinking will permeate the "mainstream" more and more in the coming years. Goddess knows we have endured… — Ani DiFranco Copy Share Image
“The beautiful is powerless but always exceeds what frames it, and what always frames it is discourse.” — Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe Copy Share Image
This is a gathering of Lovers. In this gathering there is no high, no low, no smart, no ignorant, no special assembly,… — Rumi Copy Share Image
He had not breathed a word of love, or dropped one hint of tenderness or affection, and yet I had been supremely… — Anne Bronte Copy Share Image
“Marx understood well that the press was not merely a machine but a structure for discourse, which both rules out and insists… — Neil Postman 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
In the Phaedrus, Plato argued that the new arrival of writing would revolutionize culture for the worst. He suggested that it would… — Marshall McLuhan 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
In conscious life, we achieve some sense of ourselves as reasonably unified, coherent selves, and without this action would be impossible. But… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
Where wise actions are the fruit of life, wise discourse is the pollination. — Bryant H. McGill Copy Share Image
The Olivet Discourse is not about the Second Coming of Christ. It is a prophecy of the destruction of Jerusalem in A.D.… — David Chilton Copy Share Image
Withal I did infer your lineaments, Being the right idea of your father, Both in your form and nobleness of mind; Laid… — William Shakespeare 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
To move from a discussion of the early relationship between theatre and television to an examination of the current situation of live… — Philip Auslander Copy Share Image
[T]here is a methodological bias in favor of taking natural discourse literally, other things being equal. For example, unless there are clear… — Tyler Burge 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
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