The reduction of political discourse to sound bites is one of the worst things that's happened in American political life. — John Silber Copy Share Image
Where wise actions are the fruit of life, wise discourse is the pollination. — Bryant H. McGill Copy Share Image
I'm in the civil discourse business. I think it takes all kinds. And more power to everybody. — Jim Lehrer 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
Discourse says, 'You are.' Rhetoric preserves the freedom to say, 'I am not. — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
When feminist discourse is unable to discriminate the drunken fraternity brother from the homicidal maniac, women are in trouble. — Camille Paglia 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
As the growing emphasis on feelings crowds out reason, facts will play a smaller role in public discourse. — Paul Craig Roberts Copy Share Image
It is important for us to be able to meet and greet the people that we serve. And if we start having… — Jackie Speier Copy Share Image
In England we see people lulled sleep with solid and elaborate discourses of piety, who would be warmed and transported out of… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
There's only one way we're going to change our political climate and ensure we establish some respect in our discourse. And that… — Mark McKinnon Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
A discourse for broad-based political change is crucial for developing a politics that speaks to a future that can provide sustainable jobs,… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
My favorite new character isn't new, but more fleshed out - Gadd, the alekeep at the Tunnel. He's got him some teeth… — Paul S. Kemp Copy Share Image
A lawsuit is to ordinary life what war is to peacetime. In a lawsuit, everybody on the other side is bad. A… — Janet Malcolm Copy Share Image
Passions are liken'd best to floods and streams: The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb; So, when affection yields discourse, it… — Walter Raleigh 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
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
I'm interested in the way the whole cultural landscape can shift over time. Okay, this will seem like a silly example, but… — Astra Taylor Copy Share Image
In the Lord's discourse on spiritual nourishment, we hear Him says: "Do not labor for the food which perishes, but for the… — Pope Shenouda III of Alexandria 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
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
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
He had not breathed a word of love, or dropped one hint of tenderness or affection, and yet I had been supremely… — Anne Bronte 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
Is it that they think it a duty to be continually talking,' pursued she: 'and so never pause to think, but fill… — Anne Bronte Copy Share Image
“Although scholars such as Butler have debated such approaches as reinforcing problematic identity models and creating an either/or distinction, Lather is referring… — Jill Green Copy Share Image
[I]f a man bred to the seafaring life, and accustomed to think and talk only of matters relating to navigation, enters into… — Thomas Reid Copy Share Image
The tragedy is that in the name of resisting the internal deterioration of faith and the corruption of the world around them,… — James Davison Hunter Copy Share Image
What else is it that should trace the insuperable line? Is it the faculty of reason or perhaps the faculty of discourse?… — Jeremy Bentham Copy Share Image
“I call the discourse of power any discourse which engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient. Some expect of us as intellectuals… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
Just as a moral distinction is drawn between "those at risk" and "those posing a risk", health education routinely draws a distinction… — Deborah Lupton Copy Share Image
A written discourse on any subject is bound to contain much that is fanciful. — Plato Copy Share Image
I believe in poetic discourse, in the value of speech in a non-naturalistic way; it's speculative. — Howard Barker Copy Share Image
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