President Obama, right after the Gabby Gifford shooting said we need to usher in a new era of civil discourse in politics.… — Eric Bolling Copy Share Image
For me, graffiti and the complexities with which it is either absorbed or expelled from what is going on, is a really… — Richard Phillips Copy Share Image
I've watched politics for years. Republicans rarely get credit for the good things that happen in the economy during their watch. Democrats… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
Fancy your having no sunshine in London yesterday! Here it was glorious, like full summer, and I sat up with the window… — Marie Corelli Copy Share Image
It was the first and most striking characteristic of Socrates never to become heated in discourse, never to utter an injurious or… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
“I have just described an unforgettable event in my life, and yet I hardly ever get a chance to speak of it.… — Ruth Klüger Copy Share Image
I think it is very difficult today to have a reasoned public discourse on any controversial subject. Certainly, election years present a… — John Poindexter Copy Share Image
Expose every belief to the light of reason, discourse, facts, scientific observations; question everything, be sceptical because this is the only chance… — James Randi Copy Share Image
I set my life since then attempting to figure out how to do that, basically how to have a sort of public… — Jonathon Keats Copy Share Image
Like most terms of political discourse, socialism has more or less, lost its meaning. Socialism used to mean something. If you go… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
You learn in America to speak two ways. You learn in public discourse not to be very specific about your religious life.… — Richard Rodriguez 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
The dominance of [an ideology] is shown by the fact that the dominated classes live their conditions of political existence through the… — Nicos Poulantzas Copy Share Image
Perhaps in time, Ella, the words we have lost will fade, and we will all stop summoning them by habit, only to… — Mark Dunn Copy Share Image
If I hadn't spent a big chunk of time in academia I might not have the depth of consciousness I do about… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
To be clear, I worry as much about the impact of the Internet as anyone else. I worry about shortening attention spans,… — Andrew Weil Copy Share Image
Within our lifetime, we can remember a time when Islamism wasn't the dominant form of discourse or the aim should be to… — Maajid Nawaz Copy Share Image
“right" way to be Chicana/o also could be a hegemonic discourse and exclusionary of those who do not fit. They recognized the… — Dolores Delgado Bernal Copy Share Image
We have not known a single great scientist who could not discourse freely and interestingly with a child. Can it be that… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
What, after all, is the narrative of 'the American Dream?' It was a discourse formulated between the 1880s and the 1920s in… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
To separate journalism and poetry, therefore-history and poetry-to set them up at opposite ends of the world of discourse, is to separate… — Archibald MacLeish Copy Share Image
Certain teachers have tremendous amounts of experience. They are articulate, and they give wonderful discourse. But at some point along the road,… — Sakyong Mipham Copy Share Image
What we need is a political and joyous alternative to the behaviorist discourse, the Christian discourse on evil or sin, and the… — Judith Butler 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 millions of Americans choose to weigh in on the outcome of 'American Idol' through text messages and the Web, then why… — Ruzwana Bashir Copy Share Image
While the intelligence profession oftentimes demands secrecy, it is critically important that there be a full and open discourse on intelligence matters… — John O. Brennan Copy Share Image
Is political discourse still just shouting opinions about subjective, hot-button issues based on poor understanding and outright ignorance about which agreements can… — Jeffrey Rowland Copy Share Image
The Indians , whom we call barbarous, observe much more decency and civility in their discourses and conversation, giving one another a… — John Locke Copy Share Image
We cannot hope to change human nature. There will always be cranks and conspiracy theorists among us. But we can try to… — John Avlon Copy Share Image
Now people like Susan Sarandon are noticing that people of color live this way?! This is the way I've always lived! What's… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
it is my lady! *sighs* o, it is my love! o, that she knew she were! she speaks, yet she sais nothing.… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
This organization of functional discourse is of vital importance; it serves as a vehicle of coordination and subordination. The unified, functional language… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
The more aggressive our ideologies become, the more aggressive our discourse whether it's in the United States, from Washington D.C., or whether… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
People will be surprised at the eagerness with which we went aboutpretending to rouse from its slumber a sexuality which everything-our discourses,… — Michel Foucault 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
Creativity doesn’t come from glancing quickly at your Twitter feed while in line at Starbucks. It comes from deep thought. It comes… — Joshua Rogers Copy Share Image
The poet's discourse can be compared to the track of a charged particle through a cloud-chamber. An energised field of association and… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
... people are growing up in the slack flicker of a pale light which lacks the concentrated burn of a candle flame… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
Not only has photography so thoroughly saturated our visual environment as to make the invention of visual images seem archaic, but it… — Douglas Crimp Copy Share Image
Proponents of so-called pluralism feel compelled to ban religious considerations from public discourse because they know, instinctively if not intellectually, that their… — Benjamin Hart Copy Share Image
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