Political discourse Quote by Alan S. Blinder

“If people literally applied counterfactual religious principles and prescriptions to factual navigation of everyday environments they would likely be either dead or in the…

— Scott Atran

“counterfactual emotions,” or the feelings that spurred people’s minds to spin alternative realities in order to avoid the pain of the emotion. Regret was…

— Michael Lewis

“The fact that counterfactual thinking seems to hone in on the controllable aspects of a situation only increases the chances that a person will…

— Barry Schwartz

Look closer at the stress in your own life and you can identify that negative emotions are always built on counterfactual statements.

— Anonymous

“Regret as a learning tool happens through something called counterfactual thinking—a dynamic with two razor-sharp edges.5 When we look back on a decision and…

— David DiSalvo

“Most people can suppress counterfactual thoughts before they spin too far down a spiral, those who suffer from clinical depression may not be able…

— Barry Schwartz

What I have learned from studying counterfactual history is that the law of unintended consequences always kicks in no matter how secure you are…

— Gavriel David Rosenfeld

In counterfactual history, nothing is certain.

— Robert Dallek

It's fine to talk about politics with people you agree with. But it is rude to argue about politics with people you disagree with.…

— Lawrence Lessig

Virtually all political discourse in the days of my youth was devoted to the ferreting out of hypocrisy... Because they were hypocrites, the Victorians…

— Neal Stephenson

If you listen to the political discourse in America today, you would think that all our problems have been caused by the Mexicans of…

— Fareed Zakaria

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

— Joseph Brodsky