Discourse Quotes · Page 3

Sermons remain one of the last forms of public discourse where it is culturally forbidden to talk back.

— Harvey Cox

Preaching to the choir actually arms the choir with arguments and elevates the choir's discourse. There's a reason the right does it…

— Dan Savage

Rhetoric in serious discourses is like the flowers in corn; pleasing to those who come only for amusement, but prejudicial to him…

— Jonathan Swift

The reduction of political discourse to sound bites is one of the worst things that's happened in American political life.

— John Silber

A truly great university is a nucleus of artistic expression. It fosters creative, critical thought, and serves as a platform for civil…

— Gordon Gee

A critical discourse that had respect for the mystery of art would look to the sense of life which finds expression in…

— Denis Donoghue

When the only people in mainstream discourse who care about the working class are Wall Street investors, it really is time to…

— Timothy Noah

Nothing is more detestable than a professed declaimer who retails his discourses as a quack does his medicines.

— Jean Baptiste Massillon

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

— David Hume

If bloggers are to improve our public discourse - helping busy and usually uninformed people make sense of the world - it…

— Eric Alterman

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

— Anonymous

As a source of innovation, an engine of our economy, and a forum for our political discourse, the Internet can only work…

— Al Franken

The simple record of these three short years of active life has done more to regenerate and soften mankind than all the…

— William Edward Hartpole Lecky

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

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

It is through an "intimate cessation of all intellectual operations" that the mind is laid bare. If nor, discourse maintains it in…

— Georges Bataille

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

— Christopher Hitchens

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

— Howard Zinn

Every single empire in its official discourse has said that it is not like all the others, that its circumstances are special,…

— Edward Said

We are being at once wisely aware of our own frivolity if we avoid hitting and whacking and prefer 'striking' and 'smiting';…

— J. R. R. Tolkien

I have been lately introduced to the famous Thomas Paine, and like him very well. He is vain beyond all belief, but…

— Anonymous

Some of the parables that Matthew records and that Jesus delivered as part of his Olivet Discourse-such as the ten virgins and…

— Eric D. Huntsman

The conscious mind is a maelstrom of fleeting thoughts, images, sensations, feelings, conflicting desires, and doubts; barely able to confine its attention…

— Peter J. Carroll

In conscious life, we achieve some sense of ourselves as reasonably unified, coherent selves, and without this action would be impossible. But…

— Terry Eagleton

To endeavor to move by the same discourse hearers who differ in age, sex, position and education is to attempt to open…

— Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

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

— George Herbert

I did learn that some of the things that are great for locker rooms are inappropriate for political discourse. That's a wisdom…

— George Allen

I believe that we will elevate and differentiate the discourse of cinema the more we discuss image creation in specific terms.

— Guillermo del Toro

We have to really be intentional right now about holding the media accountable, and taking back the discourse and terms of discussion.…

— Ani DiFranco

It seems to be my destiny to discourse on truth, insofar as I discover it, in such a way that all possible…

— Soren Kierkegaard

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

— Mira Grant

A film is one small voice among other large ones. The film is a tiny part of the discourse. You do what…

— Ken Loach

The one thing that is distinctive about America historically has been the fact that we are all able to engage in public…

— Ajit Pai

Political discourse has become so rotten that it's no longer possible to tell the stench of one presidential candidate from the stink…

— P. J. O'Rourke

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

— Joseph Addison

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

— Aphra Behn

Is not birth, beauty, good shape, discourse, Manhood, learning, gentleness, virtue, youth, liberality, and such like, the spice and salt that season…

— William Shakespeare

The artificial separation of politics and culture is nowhere more pronounced than in the discourse of foreign policy and international affairs.

— Ellen Willis

Profanity is the parlance of the fool. Why curse when there is such a magnificent language with which to discourse?

— Theodore Roosevelt

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