The public discourse online is not done through the polite language of debate. — Hozier Copy Share Image
“Our public discourse appears permanently riven by conspiracy theories.” — Sam Harris 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
Atheists have just as much of a right to the public discourse as any ... people of any religious faith in this country. — Al Gore Copy Share Image
I hold to the idea that civility, understood as the willingness to engage in public discourse, is the first virtue of citizens. — Mark Kingwell Copy Share Image
I think it is very difficult today to have a reasoned public discourse on any controversial subject. Certainly, election years present a… — John Poindexter Copy Share Image
The one thing that is distinctive about America historically has been the fact that we are all able to engage in public… — Ajit Pai 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
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
“Trump broke free of this constraint, and it is safe to say that political correctness will never have the stranglehold on public… — David Horowitz Copy Share Image
The left is entering a new phase of ideological agitation no longer trying to win the debate but stopping debate altogether, banishing… — Charles Krauthammer 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
“The willingness to reexamine lifelong beliefs because of conflicting data takes enormous courage, and contrasts sharply with recent examples of public discourse… — Donal O'Shea 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
“Lay the blame where you will: the internet, 940 television channels, social media, the ubiquity of high-fructose corn syrup, whatever you like.… — Anonymous 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
“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
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
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
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
Have you ever noticed that the only metaphor we have in our public discourse for solving problems is to declare war on… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
“But it is not time constraints alone that produce such fragmented and discontinuous language. When a television show is in process, it… — Neil Postman 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
“We may say then that the contribution of the telegraph to public discourse was to dignify irrelevance and amplify impotence. But this… — Neil Postman 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
“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
“The television commercial has mounted the most serious assault on capitalist ideology since the publication of Das Kapital. To understand why, we… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
“There is nothing wrong with entertainment. As some psychiatrist once put it, we all build castles in the air. The problems come… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
For the sake of public discourse, for the demands of the free market, and for the value we place in citizen advocacy,… — Christine Pelosi Copy Share Image
Let me make the Workers' Party's position clear: When we deal with public discourse, I think it's very helpful, in fact it's… — Pritam Singh Copy Share Image
At least in the West, politicians, corporations and media moguls can no longer take for granted their power to control the public… — David Puttnam Copy Share Image
Secularists are often wrongly accused of trying to purge religious ideals from public discourse. We simply want to deny them public sponsorship. — Wendy Kaminer Copy Share Image
Trigger warnings are an instantiation of the West's zeitgeist of perpetual offense and victimhood that defines much of public discourse. — Gad Saad 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
Spokespeople sell women the Iron Maiden and name her "Health": if public discourse were really concerned with women's health, it would turn… — Naomi Wolf 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 guess I understand a public intellectual to be somebody who moves public discourse forward: someone who either says something new or… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
The good news is you can get a lot of information off the Internet for free and in a hurry. But I… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image