Discourse Quotes

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Discourse has ended in America. It's all just shouting and ranting and demonization. Do you know how the rest of the world laughs at you… — Felix Dennis
Make no mistake about it: Law school is not a bastion of intellectual discourse. — Tucker Max
The appearance in nineteenth-century psychiatry, jurisprudence, and literature of a whole series of discourses on the species and subspecies of homosexuality, inversion, pederasty, and "psychic… — Michel Foucault
Everything in our background has prepared us to know and resist a prison when the gates begin to close around us . . . But… — Neil Postman
it is my lady! *sighs* o, it is my love! o, that she knew she were! she speaks, yet she sais nothing. what of that?… — William Shakespeare
What is a man, if his chief good and market of his time be but to sleep and feed? a beast, no more. Sure he… — William Shakespeare
Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider. Some… — Francis Bacon
Television is our culture's principal mode of knowing about itself. Therefore -- and this is the critical point -- how television stages the world becomes… — Neil Postman
Reading makes a full man, meditation a profound man, discourse a clear man. — Benjamin Franklin
God himself, finding he was in the midst of spirits and glory, because he was more intelligent, saw proper to institute laws whereby the rest… — Joseph Smith, Jr.
Part of the puzzle, surely, lies in the disconnect between official rhetoric and lived realities. Americans are constantly extolling â€œtraditionsâ€; litanies to family values are… — Susan Sontag
The search for the means to put an end to things, an end to speech, is what enables the discourse to continue. — Samuel Beckett
We can either have a twenty-first-century conversation about morality and the human well-being - a conversation in which we avail ourselves of all scientific insights… — Sam Harris
The idea, therefore, that religious faith is somehow a sacred human conventionâ€”distinguished, as it is, both by the extravagance of its claims and by the… — Sam Harris
This progressive effacement of human relationships is not without certain problems for the novel. How, in point of fact, would one handle the narration of… — Michel Houellebecq
Most artists are brought to their vocation when their own nascent gifts are awakened by the work of a master. That is to say, most… — Lewis Hyde
Of our thinking it is but the upper surface that we shape into articulate thought; underneath the region of argument and conscious discourse lies the… — Thomas Carlyle
Cities, like dreams, are made of desires and fears, even if the thread of their discourse is secret, their rules are absurd, their perspectives deceitful,… — Italo Calvino
And I want to rise up, throw my arms open for a vast embrace, address an ample, luminous discourse to the invisible crowds. I would… — Vladimir Nabokov
Bound to seek recognition of its own existence in categories, terms, and names that are not of its own making, the subject seeks the sign… — Judith Butler

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