Profanity is the parlance of the fool. Why curse when there is such a magnificent language with which to discourse? — Theodore Roosevelt 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
The skilful class of flatterers praise the discourse of an ignorant friend and the face of a deformed one. — Juvenal Copy Share Image
The grandest discourse ever delivered is an ostentatious failure if the doctrine of the grace of God be absent from it. — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
There cannot be greater rudeness than to interrupt another in the current of his discourse. — John Locke Copy Share Image
In all great civilizations, garden discourses have belonged to larger discourses about beauty, the good life, the relation of humankind to nature,… — David E. Cooper Copy Share Image
In America, we don't, in daily discourse, use the words 'capitalism' or 'socialism.' They've been kind of nonexistent words, I would say,… — Michael Moore Copy Share Image
I grew up in the sort of cultural milieu that always regarded conversations about the political discourse as tremendously low-brow. — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
It is through an "intimate cessation of all intellectual operations" that the mind is laid bare. If nor, discourse maintains it in… — Georges Bataille Copy Share Image
We can no more tolerate neutrality and benevolence toward every conceivable form of discourse, including that of magical thinking, than we can… — Michel Onfray Copy Share Image
A tiny portion of the population controls the lions share of the wealth and most of the command positions of state, manufacturing,… — Michael Parenti Copy Share Image
We want to create, never mind the leaders or the bishops or chief rabbis or imams, or Popes. We want to create… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
Almost one half of our time is spent in telling and hearing evil of one another ... and every hour brings forth… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
“Repression speaks about sex better than any other form of discourse / or so the modern experts maintain. How do people /… — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
The only privilege literature deserves - and this privilege it requires in order to exist - is the privilege of being in… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
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 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
You have a certain objectivity, as a member of the audience, and you can come away maybe being provoked into a certain… — Colin Farrell Copy Share Image
A purpose derived from a false premise - that a deity has ordained submission to his will - cannot merit respect. The… — Jeffrey Tayler Copy Share Image
There is in the chemist a form of thought by which all ideas become visible in the mind as strains of an… — Justus von Liebig Copy Share Image
I think the press, by and large, is what we call "liberal". But of course what we call "liberal" means well to… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
What makes power hold good, what makes it accepted, is simply the fact that it doesn't only weigh on us as a… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
I've been thinking so much about how grateful I am to cover the court because the constraints of calm and civility are… — Dahlia Lithwick 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
Angling is somewhat like poetry, men are to be born so: I mean, with inclinations to it, though both may be heightened… — Izaak Walton Copy Share Image
It is an impertinent and unreasonable fault in conversation for one man to take up all the discourse. — Richard Steele Copy Share Image
Words themselves - the very material of our discourse increasingly take on masks or disguises — Dennis Potter Copy Share Image
Love with delight discourses in my mindUpon my lady's admirable gifts...Beyond the range of human intellect. — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
The French equate intelligence with rational discourse, the Russians with intense soul-searching. For the Mexican, intelligence is inseparable from maliciousness. — Carlos Fuentes Copy Share Image
In poetry, even discourse about doubts must be cast in a discourse that cannot be doubted. — Mikhail Bakhtin Copy Share Image
Spend your leisure time in cultivating an ear attentive to discourse, for in this way you will find that you learn with… — Isocrates Copy Share Image
Moralists love to discourse on the hollowness of success; about the hollowness of failure they are silent. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
That if you be honest and fair, your honesty should admit no discourse to your beauty. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
What we won't do is pretend that the work of lunatic charlatans is the equivalent of "true scientific discourse." It isn't. — Jimmy Wales Copy Share Image
Without a rigorous, self-critical discourse, one risks lapsing into pious platitudes and unexamined generalizations. — Stephen Batchelor Copy Share Image
The artist must imitate that which is within the thing, that which is active through form and figure, and discourses to us… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
It is a difficult task to talk to the purpose, and to put life and perspicuity into our discourse. — Jeremy Collier Copy Share Image
I think the reason you see so many people dropping out of politics is because there's an anti-poetic strain in modern political… — Zephyr Teachout Copy Share Image
If Shakespeare required a word and had not met it in civilized discourse, he unhesitatingly made it up. — Amy Koppelman Copy Share Image
