The skilful class of flatterers praise the discourse of an ignorant friend and the face of a deformed one. — Juvenal Copy Share Image
Sermons remain one of the last forms of public discourse where it is culturally forbidden to talk back. — Harvey Cox Copy Share Image
If bloggers are to improve our public discourse - helping busy and usually uninformed people make sense of the world - it… — Eric Alterman Copy Share Image
One of the greatest challenges facing civilization in the twenty-first century is for human beings to learn to speak about their deepest… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
Stricken by a guilty conscience, some men will say that I speak with excessive temerity about all men in general. They are… — Arcangela Tarabotti Copy Share Image
The world of public discourse - political, social, diplomatic, commercial - has so corrupted language that we are rightly more suspicious of… — Deena Metzger Copy Share Image
“The point is that television does not reveal who the best man is. In fact, television makes impossible the determination of who… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
By consequence, or train of thoughts, I understand that succession of one thought to another which is called, to distinguish it from… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
The discourse of the West and the attitudes of its leaders are important because they influence public debate in Turkey. — Safak Pavey Copy Share Image
The focus of our public discourse has been on how American companies are competing with Japanese, German, and other foreign companies. What… — Arlie Russell Hochschild Copy Share Image
If there is an ‘overabundance' of an idea in the absence of direct governmental action -- which there well might be when… — Elena Kagan Copy Share Image
Charles Bernstein's pairs of jingles of 'public discourse' are 'simultaneous double narrative / the space between's the other narrative/as if they're opposite.'… — Leslie Scalapino Copy Share Image
Civility is not not saying negative or harsh things. It is not the absence of critical analysis. It is the manner in… — Richard Dreyfuss Copy Share Image
I heard many discourses which were good for the soul, but I could not discover in the case of any one of… — Saint Basil Copy Share Image
Prose-it might be speculated-is discourse; poetry ellipsis. Prose is spoken aloud; poetry overheard. — Joyce Carol Oates 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
If Shakespeare required a word and had not met it in civilized discourse, he unhesitatingly made it up. — Amy Koppelman Copy Share Image
Our growing ability to eliminate the slow-moving aspects of entertainment and go hopping from one peak to another is not without cost.… — William Raspberry Copy Share Image
The main reasons for dwelling .. on Hayek's model is simply that it has certain properties, absent from most others, that conform… — Joaquin Fuster 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
At least in the West, politicians, corporations and media moguls can no longer take for granted their power to control the public… — David Puttnam Copy Share Image
Racism is a moral catastrophe, most graphically seen in the prison industrial complex and targeted police surveillance in black and brown ghettos… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
Public discourse requires making an argument for a point of view, not having an argument - as in having a fight. — Deborah Tannen Copy Share Image
I think that James Baldwin is, for sure, one of the most important American writer/thinkers of his time... not just African-American. He… — Raoul Peck Copy Share Image
