Discourse Quotes

298 quotes by 242 authors

Perhaps in time, Ella, the words we have lost will fade, and we will all stop summoning them by habit, only to stamp them out… — Mark Dunn
None of us should be ashamed to speak of our class power or lack of it. Overcoming fear, even the fear of being immodest, and… — Bell Hooks
It is taboo in our society to criticize a persons religious faith... these taboos are offensive, deeply unreasonable, but worse than that, they are getting… — Sam Harris
He looked at a world of incredible loveliness. Old distaff Celt's blood in some back chamber of his brain moved him to discourse with the… — Cormac McCarthy
An average Christian, in an average church, listen to an average Sunday sermon has achieved a level of arrogance simply unimaginable in scientific discourse --… — Sam Harris
Man has much power of discourse which for the most part is vain and false; animals have but little, but it is useful and true,… — Leonardo da Vinci
Then I speak to her in a language she has never heard, I speak to her in Spanish, in the tongue of the long, crepuscular… — Pablo Neruda
He had not breathed a word of love, or dropped one hint of tenderness or affection, and yet I had been supremely happy. To be… — Anne Bronte
In a word, literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourse… — Helen Keller
If we wish to know about a man, we ask 'what is his story--his real, inmost story?'--for each of us is a biography, a story.… — Oliver Sacks
While believing strongly, without evidence, is considered a mark of madness or stupidity in any other area of our lives, faith in God still holds… — Sam Harris
The lover`s discourse was of an extreme solitude. The solitude was extreme because it wasn`t physical. It was extreme because you felt it while in… — Jeffrey Eugenides
Education may well be, as of right, the instrument whereby every individual, in a society like our own, can gain access to any kind of… — Michel Foucault
A desire for privacy does not imply shameful secrets; Moglen argues, again and again, that without anonymity in discourse, free speech is impossible, and hence… — Nick Harkaway
The more familiar two people become, the more the language they speak together departs from that of the ordinary, dictionary-defined discourse. Familiarity creates a new… — Alain de Botton
Is it that they think it a duty to be continually talking,' pursued she: 'and so never pause to think, but fill up with aimless… — Anne Bronte
To glorify democracy and to silence the people is a farce; to discourse on humanism and to negate people is a lie. — Paulo Freire
There is not one but many silences, and they are an integral part of the strategies that underlie and permeate discourses. — Michel Foucault
One who â€knows,â€ knows there is no need to discourse; knowing is enough — Rajneesh
When a natural discourse paints a passion or an effect, one feels within oneself the truth of what one reads, which was there before, although… — Blaise Pascal

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