Discourse Quotes · Page 7

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

— John Locke

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

— Alison Assiter

Unlike the past decades, the present moment is lacking in architectural discourse.

— Lebbeus Woods

The search for the means to put an end to things, an end to speech, is what enables the discourse to continue.

— Samuel Beckett

Things it is not polite to discuss at the dinner table: politics, religion, and the walking dead.

— Mira Grant

To counter the fixation on a rhetoric of victimhood, black folks must engage in a discourse of self-determination.

— Bell Hooks

The Left doesn't understand the importance of God in the Israeli public discourse, and Yesh Atid does.

— Yair Lapid

It is dangerous to engage in even the most innocuous-seeming discourse with the FBI/ Homeland Security/ a local detective.

— Ingrid Newkirk

Ideas, aspirations, and objectives that, by their content, transcend the established universe of discourse and action are either repelled or reduced to…

— Herbert Marcuse

I wish to note that the level of discourse in Nigeria is abysmally low, and, usually, garnished with character assassination. We allow…

— Dele Momodu

Americans should not have to wonder if their government is actively looking to subvert them or their political views. We live in…

— Mike Turner

Every leader, and every regime, and every movement, and every organization that steps across the line to terrorism must be banished from…

— Alan Keyes

I'm not shy about heated debate or passionate discourse, but when people get crazy or rude, that's a buzz kill. There's got…

— Mos Def

There are hardly any truths upon which we always remain agreed, and still fewer objects of pleasure which we do not change…

— Blaise Pascal

I actually felt diminished by watching [Donald Trump's]. If this is what discourse has become in America, who even wants to know…

— Errol Morris

Preaching to the choir actually arms the choir with arguments and elevates the choir's discourse. There's a reason the right does it…

— Dan Savage

Racial profiling punishes innocent individuals for the past actions of those who look and sound like them. It misdirects crucial resources and…

— Anonymous

I set my life since then attempting to figure out how to do that, basically how to have a sort of public…

— Jonathon Keats

The force of what was called Panther rhetoric or word mongering resided not in elegant discourse but in strength of affirmation (or…

— Jean Genet

The need for civility in society has never been more important. The foundation of kindness and civility begins in our homes. It…

— Quentin L. Cook

I've been thinking so much about how grateful I am to cover the court because the constraints of calm and civility are…

— Dahlia Lithwick

With the artists, I don't teach, I coach. I can't tell them how to make art. I tell them to make more…

— Dave Hickey

There is that lovely feeling of one reader telling another, 'You must read this.' I've always wanted to write a book like…

— Abraham Verghese

Kindly politeness is the slow fruit of advanced reflection; it is a sort of humanity and kindliness applied to small acts and…

— Hippolyte Taine

It is still possible to have friendly discourse in America, as long as you don't bring up any subject.

— Robert Breault

The most tedious of all discourses are on the subject of the Supreme Being.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Affectation hath always had a greater share both in the action and discourse of men than truth and judgment have.

— Aphra Behn

Allegories, when well chosen, are like so many tracks of light in a discourse, that make everything about them clear and beautiful.

— Joseph Addison

We are all full of discourses that we only half understand and half mean.

— Rae Armantrout

Reading makes a full man, meditation a profound man, discourse a clear man.

— Benjamin Franklin

Self-criticism expands the opportunities for discourse and eliminates the need for an adversary.

— Mason Cooley

Rhetoric in serious discourses is like the flowers in corn; pleasing to those who come only for amusement, but prejudicial to him…

— Jonathan Swift

“The real purpose of the opposition is to minimize the amount of money the ruling party will have stolen from the people…

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

It's pretty standard fare in political discourse. You misconstrue what somebody said. You isolate a statement, you lend your interpretation to it…

— John F. Kerry

But one did not do feminist theory, as such, in those days, not only because male academic discourse did not recognize such…

— Teresa de Lauretis

The Journal of Discourses ranks as one of the standard works of the Church, and every right-minded Saint will certainly welcome with…

— George Q. Cannon

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

— Gad Saad

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

— Anonymous

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

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

— Elie Wiesel