Discourse Quotes
298 quotes by 242 authors
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Is political discourse still just shouting opinions about subjective, hot-button issues based on poor understanding and outright ignorance about which agreements can never be reached?
— Jeffrey Rowland
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It's very fashionable to talk about human trafficking in this fantastic AC hall. It's very nice for discussion, discourse, making films and everything. But it…
— Sunitha Krishnan
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But one did not do feminist theory, as such, in those days, not only because male academic discourse did not recognize such a term, but…
— Teresa de Lauretis
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To write or speak is to communicate. To communicate is to share meanings, make them ‘common’ to all participants in the discourse. (The etymological root…
— Robin Lakoff
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A new race-neutral language was developed for appealing to old racist sentiments, a language accompanied by a political movement that succeeded in putting the vast…
— Michelle Alexander
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The Olivet Discourse is not about the Second Coming of Christ. It is a prophecy of the destruction of Jerusalem in A.D. 70.
— David Chilton
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The tragedy is that in the name of resisting the internal deterioration of faith and the corruption of the world around them, many Christians -…
— James Davison Hunter
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Why is one view permissible and the other criminally barred-other than because the force of law is being used to control political discourse and one…
— Glenn Greenwald
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I wish to note that the level of discourse in Nigeria is abysmally low, and, usually, garnished with character assassination. We allow our personal frustrations…
— Unknown Author
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Power is the ability to take one's place in whatever discourse is essential to action and the right to have one's part matter.
— Carolyn Heilbrun
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Nima Shirazi is a rare voice of rational analysis and political insight that provides an eloquent counter to the pervasive absurdities that make up popular…
— Susan Abulhawa
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The grandest discourse ever delivered is an ostentatious failure if the doctrine of the grace of God be absent from it.
— Charles Spurgeon
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That if you be honest and fair, your honesty should admit no discourse to your beauty.
— William Shakespeare
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All discourse of which others cannot partake is not only an irksome usurpation of the time devoted to pleasure and entertainment, but, what never fails…
— Samuel Johnson
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Love is not a word that describes my feelings; it is not a technique by which I fulfill my needs; it is not an ideal,…
— Eugene H. Peterson
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But till all graces be in one woman, one woman shall not come in my grace. Rich she shall be, that's certain; wise, or I'll…
— William Shakespeare
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The wisest thing to do with a fool is to encourage him to hire a hall and discourse to his fellow-citizens . Nothing chills nonsense…
— Woodrow Wilson
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Is not birth, beauty, good shape, discourse, Manhood, learning, gentleness, virtue, youth, liberality, and such like, the spice and salt that season a man
— William Shakespeare
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O' thinkest thou we shall ever meet again? I doubt it not; and all these woes shall serve For sweet discourses in our times to…
— William Shakespeare
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The agentive mind is not only active in nature, but it seeks out dialogue and discourse with other active minds. And it is through this…
— Jerome Bruner
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