Discourse Quotes

298 quotes by 248 authors

The public discourse on global warming has little in common with the standards of scientific discourse. Rather, it is part of political discourse where comments… — Richard Lindzen
...But why discourse Upon the Virtues of the Horse? They are too numerous to tell Save when you have a Horse to Sell. — Josh Billings
During depression the world disappears. Language itself. One has nothing to say. Nothing. No small talk, no anecdotes. Nothing can be risked on the board… — Kate Millett
Without a rigorous, self-critical discourse, one risks lapsing into pious platitudes and unexamined generalizations. — Stephen Batchelor
I am comfortable with my level of public discourse. — Neil Armstrong
Whenever I become discouraged (which is on alternate Tuesdays, between three and four) I lift my spirits by remembering: The artists are on our side!… — Howard Zinn
To describe this film as dishonest and demagogic would almost be to promote those terms to the level of respectability. To describe this film as… — Christopher Hitchens
Much of the left's hate speech bears greater similarity to a psychological disorder than to standard political discourse. The hatred is blinding, producing logical contradictions… — Ann Coulter
We are all full of discourses that we only half understand and half mean. — Rae Armantrout
The dominance of [an ideology] is shown by the fact that the dominated classes live their conditions of political existence through the forms of dominant… — Nicos Poulantzas
The need for civility in society has never been more important. The foundation of kindness and civility begins in our homes. It is not surprising… — Quentin L. Cook
I rarely speak about God. To God, yes. I protest against Him. I shout at Him. But to open a discourse about the qualities of… — Elie Wiesel
Reason is a faculty far larger than mere objective force. When either the political or the scientific discourse announces itself as the voice of reason,… — Ursula K. Le Guin
Be advised what thou dost discourse of, and what thou maintainest whether touching religion, state, or vanity; for if thou err in the first, thou… — Walter Raleigh
We are being at once wisely aware of our own frivolity if we avoid hitting and whacking and prefer 'striking' and 'smiting'; talk and chat… — J.R.R. Tolkien
One-dimensional thought is systematically promoted by the makers of politics and their purveyors of mass information. Their universe of discourse is populated by self-validating hypotheses… — Herbert Marcuse
What makes power hold good, what makes it accepted, is simply the fact that it doesn't only weigh on us as a force that says… — Michel Foucault
We are wont to see friendship solely as a phenomenon of intimacy in which the friends open their hearts to each other unmolested by the… — Hannah Arendt
Discourse, the sweeter banquet of the mind. — Homer
I think we should be very clear on thisâ€¦ this country was founded on the principles of the Enlightenmentâ€¦ It was the idea that people… — Wesley Clark

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