Discourse Quotes · Page 6

“Our public discourse appears permanently riven by conspiracy theories.”

— Sam Harris

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

Profanity is the parlance of the fool. Why curse when there is such a magnificent language with which to discourse?

— Theodore Roosevelt

I grew up in the sort of cultural milieu that always regarded conversations about the political discourse as tremendously low-brow.

— Joseph Brodsky

“The beautiful is powerless but always exceeds what frames it, and what always frames it is discourse.”

— Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe

The subject of feminism cannot be purely a fiction, as some postmodern writers suggest, produced by the discourses of power.

— Alison Assiter

There cannot be greater rudeness than to interrupt another in the current of his discourse.

— John Locke

Actual human discourse happens within a number of contexts, not in some sort of unified public forum.

— Rowan Williams

Philosophy is a slow process of logic and logical discourse: A bringing B bringing C and so forth. In mysticism you can…

— Elie Wiesel

The simple record of these three short years of active life has done more to regenerate and soften mankind than all the…

— William Edward Hartpole Lecky

Reason is a faculty far larger than mere objective force. When either the political or the scientific discourse announces itself as the…

— Anonymous

Trigger warnings are an instantiation of the West's zeitgeist of perpetual offense and victimhood that defines much of public discourse.

— Gad Saad

Secularists are often wrongly accused of trying to purge religious ideals from public discourse. We simply want to deny them public sponsorship.

— Wendy Kaminer

We've taken on the major health problems of the poorest - tuberculosis, maternal mortality, AIDS, malaria - in four countries. We've scored…

— Paul Farmer

The same practice was continued every evening through the whole course, and with the same success. Many individuals expressed their gratification at…

— George Combe

This type of discourse in the campaign is just unwarranted. But it was started by Ms.[Hillary] Clinton. Ms. Clinton has started the…

— Chris Christie

Television is our culture's principal mode of knowing about itself. Therefore -- and this is the critical point -- how television stages…

— Neil Postman

The most superficial fact regarding the 'Discourses,' the fact that the number of its chapters equals the number of books of Livy's…

— Leo Strauss

Philosophy - reduced, as we have seen, to philosophical discourse - develops from this point on in a different atmosphere and environment…

— Pierre Hadot

Religious faith is the only area of discourse where immunity through conversation is considered noble . It's the only area of our…

— Sam Harris

As a source of innovation, an engine of our economy, and a forum for our political discourse, the Internet can only work…

— Al Franken

There is no doubt that truth is to falsehood as light is to darkness; and so excellent a thing is truth that…

— Leonardo da Vinci

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

Without approval and without scorn, but carefully studying the sentences word by word, one should trace them in the Discourses and verify…

— Gautama Buddha

Love with delight discourses in my mindUpon my lady's admirable gifts...Beyond the range of human intellect.

— Dante Alighieri

It is an impertinent and unreasonable fault in conversation for one man to take up all the discourse.

— Richard Steele

Words themselves - the very material of our discourse increasingly take on masks or disguises

— Dennis Potter

You have to learn to have discourse with people you don't necessarily agree with.

— Charlamagne tha God

There is not one but many silences, and they are an integral part of the strategies that underlie and permeate discourses.

— Michel Foucault

The public discourse online is not done through the polite language of debate.

— Hozier

You need to go and find someone to teach you the rudiments of irrational discourse.

— Larry Wall

That if you be honest and fair, your honesty should admit no discourse to your beauty.

— William Shakespeare

Moralists love to discourse on the hollowness of success; about the hollowness of failure they are silent.

— Mason Cooley

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

In poetry, even discourse about doubts must be cast in a discourse that cannot be doubted.

— Mikhail Bakhtin

All discourses but my own afflict me; they seem harsh, impertinent, and irksome

— Ben Jonson

The poet's spoken discourse often depends on a mystique, on the spiritual freedom that finds itself enslaved on earth.

— Salvatore Quasimodo

Uncommon expressions are a disfigurement rather than an embellishment of discourse.

— David Hume

I'm not a journalist; I'm a poet. I had a discourse, an encounter with these people but I never had a list…

— Werner Herzog

Without a rigorous, self-critical discourse, one risks lapsing into pious platitudes and unexamined generalizations.

— Stephen Batchelor