The language we share is at the core of our identity as citizens, and our ticket to full participation in American political… — S. I. Hayakawa Copy Share Image
That is another theme in the book [Dreams from My Father]. How do we exercise more empathy in our public discourse? How… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Jay-Z's a guy that wears the Che Guevara t-shirt and he doesn't realize Che Guevara was a racist. Che Guevara was a… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
The failures of the press have contributed immensely to the emergence of a talk-show nation, in which public discourse is reduced to… — Carl Bernstein 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
“I should go so far as to say that embedded in the surrealistic frame of a television news show is a theory… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
Allow me to introduce myself. I am a traitor and an idiot. Also, my mother should have aborted me and left me… — Kathleen Parker 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
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 world of public discourse - political, social, diplomatic, commercial - has so corrupted language that we are rightly more suspicious of… — Deena Metzger Copy Share Image
If there is an ‘overabundance' of an idea in the absence of direct governmental action -- which there well might be when… — Elena Kagan Copy Share Image
Charles Bernstein's pairs of jingles of 'public discourse' are 'simultaneous double narrative / the space between's the other narrative/as if they're opposite.'… — Leslie Scalapino 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
I have been told, that in some public discourses of mine my reverence for the intellect has made me unjustly cold to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson 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
But once you publish a book, doesn’t it by definition become the realm of public discourse? Otherwise, wouldn’t we just write books… — Jonathan Evison Copy Share Image
It is becoming plain that our liberal regime of equality and personal freedom depends, more than most theorists of liberalism have been… — Mary Ann Glendon Copy Share Image
If conservatives come to control the White House and both Houses of Congress, there will be very little change in Hollywood, the… — Robert Bork 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
Our culture's tolerance wears thin when religion intrudes on the public discourse... Our schools, courtrooms, and libraries set the tone for the… — Ralph E. Reed, Jr Copy Share Image
“argument na moją obronę, myślę: 'This is why I say McEnroe’s an idiot. I hesitate because it’s possible he was just trying… — The Guardian Copy Share Image
It's our tendency to approach every problem as if it were a fight between two sides. We see it in headlines that… — Deborah Tannen Copy Share Image
In a democratic society, as Max Weber said, what is possible is only possible because some people have demanded the impossible. The… — Eric Foner Copy Share Image
“In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, print put forward a definition of intelligence that gave priority to the objective, rational use of… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
This was a good example of the fascist policing of public discourse in this country by nominal liberals who have become as… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
