Contemporary Quote by Albert Schweitzer

We must have real debates where disagreements exist, listen to each other, not shy away from ideas different from our own and treat people…

— Will Hurd

We must learn to outgrow our egos in exchange for constructive dialogue rather than debate. In addition, we must be capable of stating problems…

— Jacque Fresco

We need to get back to reasoning and thinking things through. The future generation is being brought up in greed and without a true…

— Richard Dreyfuss

There are people here [in South Africa] who, whatever the debate is on a particular issue, their dominating idea is that at the end…

— Nelson Mandela

We make progress only when people are willing to speak about what their lives are like and what they care about. We make it…

— Maggie Hassan

There are some things more important than ourselves - more important than the limits of the present, and the whims of the now. There…

— Dan Wells

In America, we debate everything except capitalism. If there's an institution in your society that's above criticism, you're giving it a free pass to…

— Richard D. Wolff

Whatever the field under discussion, those who engage in debate must not only believe in each other's good faith, but also in their capacity…

— W. H. Auden

“Our civic life is heavily marked—indeed, pocked—by debates in which each side is so certain of its position that any movement is effectively impossible.…

— Leah Hager Cohen

“The opinions prevalent in one age, as truths above the reach of controversy, are confuted and rejected in another, and rise again to reception…

— Samuel Johnson

The goal of any worthwhile and effective journal of opinion analysis in navigating what is an increasingly tribal and divisive period in American history…

— Ben Domenech

You've never seen me debate anybody. On anything. Ever. My investment of time, as an educator, in my judgment, is best served teaching people…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson