“We ought to punish pitilessly that shameful pretence of friendly intercourse. I like a man to be a man, and to show… — Moliere Copy Share Image
“Cosmopolitanism,..., _speaks_ about the urgent need for and the significance of relocating our discourse on,..., the scope and application of rights and… — Namsoon Kang Copy Share Image
If the propositions of this Discourse are tenable, the "state of progressive collapse" is precisely that state in which alone we are… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
The wisest thing to do with a fool is to encourage him to hire a hall and discourse to his fellow-citizens .… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
We are aching to come together and I think it has little to do with liberal or conservative discourse. I think it… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
Regulate the banks, get money out of elections; raise the minimum wage, environmental issues. They're all very important and the Occupy movement… — Noam Chomsky 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
One could construe the life of man as a great discourse in which the various people represent different parts of speech (the… — Soren Kierkegaard 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
My argument is limited to saying that a major new medium changes the structure of discourse; it does so by encouraging certain… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
The book is not simply the object that one holds in one's hands, and it cannot remain within the little parallelpiped that… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
Not only our political system is broken, but how we do business and have public discourse with one another. The system in… — Isaiah Washington 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
There can be no religious discourse which is in conflict with its environment and with the world and therefore, we Muslims need… — Abdel Fattah el-Sisi Copy Share Image
Indeed, theological discourse offers its strange jubilation only to the strict extent that it permits and, dangerously, demands of it wokman that… — Jean-Luc Marion Copy Share Image
Is not birth, beauty, good shape, discourse, Manhood, learning, gentleness, virtue, youth, liberality, and such like, the spice and salt that season… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Fruitful discourse in science or theology requires us to believe that within the contexts of normal discourse there are some true statements. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It would be a big favor to political discourse; to our ability to do our work here in Congress; and to the… — Jay Rockefeller Copy Share Image
If we ban whatever offends any group in our diverse society, we will soon have no art, no culture, no humor, no… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
It's difficult for a society to have a healthy discourse on its future when people are afraid to gather to express themselves… — John B. Quigley Copy Share Image
Politics isn't something that really interested me; I, of course, care about what's going on in the world, but so much of… — Mike O'Malley 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
Why is one view permissible and the other criminally barred-other than because the force of law is being used to control political… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
The one thing that is distinctive about America historically has been the fact that we are all able to engage in public… — Ajit Pai Copy Share Image
Thinking and spoken discourse are the same thing, except that what we call thinking is, precisely, the inward dialogue carried on by… — Plato 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
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 Copy Share Image
As the heated debate continues, it will be important that nonproliferation experts play a critical role in the discourse. Science-based statements, not… — David Corn Copy Share Image
Conversion and zealotry, just like revelation and apostasy, are flip sides of the same coin, the currency of a political culture having… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Public discourse has been polluted now for decades by corporate-funded disinformation - not just with climate change but with a host of… — Michael E. Mann Copy Share Image
There are reasons why Religious Right Evangelicals will continue to dominate religious discourse, not only in their own sector of the Christian… — Tony Campolo Copy Share Image
All letters, methinks, should be free and easy as one's discourse, not studied, as an oration, nor made up of hard words… — Dorothy Osborne 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
What I really like about law is that it's not an endless discourse like history or philosophy. In law, there comes a… — Bernhard Schlink Copy Share Image
I wish we had a more open discourse. It's just a shame that with our 24-hour news media and the Internet, people… — Jim James 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
I think the reporter or journalist is well served by having a responsibility to the powerless, to use a much-abused cliché. The… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
An average Christian, in an average church, listen to an average Sunday sermon has achieved a level of arrogance simply unimaginable in… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
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
