Discussion Quotes · Page 5

In the most civilized and progressive countries freedom of discussion is recognized as a fundamental principle.

— C. E. M. Joad

Feminism was not a rulebook but a discussion, a conversation, a process...

— Tavi Gevinson

The insistence that the commercialisation of the body is a fit subject for political discussion and intervention is well overdue.

— Susie Orbach

Freedom is hammered out on the anvil of discussion, dissent, and debate.

— Hubert H. Humphrey

Philosophical discussions habitually make men happy and joyful not frowning and sad.

— Michel de Montaigne

You cannot have a rational discussion with a man who prefers shooting you to being convinced by you.

— Karl Popper

Darwinism removed the whole idea of God as the creator from the sphere of rational discussion.

— Julian Huxley

If you're not sure what to do with the ball, just pop it in the net and we'll discuss your options afterwards.

— Bill Shankly

We need to replace hyperbole with a reasonable, informed discussion about how to reinvent the federal budget with more transparency and better…

— Mike Quigley

We're going to hear a lot of spirited discussion about the President's plan in the next few days and weeks and that's…

— George Allen

[Kathleen Blackshear] just said, "Have you thought of looking at this?" and so on and so on and so on. And it…

— Warren MacKenzie

I learned that when something just has to be said to move the discussion along, or broaden it or deepen it, if…

— Greil Marcus

When the entire country was watching one show there was a major discussion happening; is it possible for that to happen in…

— Judd Apatow

There's been an awful lot of discussion about what is or isn't simple, and people have gotten a pretty sophisticated notion of…

— Ward Cunningham

I can't recall any difficulty in making the C language definition completely open - any discussion on the matter tended to mention…

— Dennis Ritchie

If you talk to a British officer or NCO about the strategic objectives of the end state, you'll often get a spirited…

— Stanley A. McChrystal

I still love Marvel to death and I had a great experience, and it was a really tough decision to leave Marvel.…

— David Finch

My profession brought me in contact with various minds. Earnest, serious discussion on the condition of woman enlivened my business room; failures…

— Harriot Kezia Hunt

You know, this is a very strange phenomenon. I keep reading that in American newspapers, and I keep reading extensive speculations. I…

— Henry A. Kissinger

If Hillary Clinton would have left Bill, that would have ended his presidency, not via impeachment but that would have elevated his…

— Rush Limbaugh

Since my first discussions of ecological problems with Professor John Day around 1950 and since reading Konrad Lorenz's "King Solomon's Ring," I…

— Allan McLeod Cormack

I know politicians are going to be judged on everything they say but sometimes in the heat of discussion you go a…

— Tony Abbott

Those who won our independence believed that the final end of the state was to make men free to develop their faculties…

— Louis D. Brandeis

Russian law on banning nontraditional relationships basically says you cannot have any portrayal, neutral or positive, of homosexual relationships or nontraditional families,…

— Masha Gessen

I have known only one way of carrying on missionary work, viz., by personal example and discussion with searchers for knowledge.

— Anonymous

Rare indeed is the nature that does not become a little more intense when its own affairs come under discussion.

— Alice Duer Miller

I don't really like discussions about a supposed Russian national character.

— Garry Kasparov

Freedom and order are not incompatible... truth is strength... free discussion is the very life of truth.

— Thomas Huxley

The real test of compassion is not what we say in abstract discussions but how we conduct ourselves in daily life.

— Dalai Lama

I don't worry too much about the fundamentalist principles that are in almost any discussion about Jazz.

— Pat Metheny

Teaching Authority of the Church does not forbid ... research and discussions ... with regard to the doctrine of evolution.

— Pope Pius XII

Anyone who says that Iran will commit suicide with its nuclear power is a moron and has no business in discussion.

— Reza Aslan

My grandfather and mother were school teachers, so there was always some discussion around books.

— Sudha Murty

Much of the discussion about socialism and individualism is entirely pointless, because of failure to agree on terminology.

— Theodore Roosevelt

All I want is compliance with my wishes, after reasonable discussion.

— Winston Churchill

I hate intellectual discussion. When I hear the words 'phenomenology' or 'structuralism', I reach for my buck knife.

— Edward Abbey

It's my job that if somebody wants to have a discussion about something, I'm certainly sensitive to that, and I'm willing to…

— Joe Torre

No discussion between two persons can be of any use, until each knows clearly what it is that the other asserts.

— Lewis Carroll

“He had not been invited to the discussion, but invitations were not Ben's strong point.”

— Tim Baer

Folklore provides a socially sanctioned outlet for the discussion of the forbidden and taboo.

— Alan Dundes