Discourse Quotes

298 quotes by 242 authors

This was a good example of the fascist policing of public discourse in this country by nominal liberals who have become as unthinkingly wedded to… — Camille Paglia
What does it really mean to be a leftist in the early part of the 21st century? What are we really talking about? And I… — Cornel West
The most tedious of all discourses are on the subject of the Supreme Being. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
What should we speak of When we are old as you? when we shall hear The rain and wind beat dark December? how, In this… — William Shakespeare
It is still possible to have friendly discourse in America, as long as you don't bring up any subject. — Robert Breault
The violent illiteracies of the graffiti, the clenched silence of the adolescent, the nonsense cries from the stage-happening, are resolutely strategic. The insurgent and the… — George Steiner
TV serves us most usefully when presenting junk-entertainment; it serves us most ill when it co-opts serious modes of discourse - news, politics, science, education,… — Neil Postman
The force of what was called Panther rhetoric or word mongering resided not in elegant discourse but in strength of affirmation (or denial), in anger… — Jean Genet
The French equate intelligence with rational discourse, the Russians with intense soul-searching. For the Mexican, intelligence is inseparable from maliciousness. — Carlos Fuentes
Prose-it might be speculated-is discourse; poetry ellipsis. Prose is spoken aloud; poetry overheard. — Joyce Carol Oates
I think it is very difficult today to have a reasoned public discourse on any controversial subject. Certainly, election years present a complicating factor. — John Poindexter
Relations of power "are indissociable from a discourse of truth, and they can neither be established nor function unless a true discourse is produced, accumulated,… — Michel Foucault
... we are obliged to produce the truth by the power that demands truth and needs it in order to function: we are constrained, we… — Michel Foucault
As one might expect, authoritarianism will at times cause children and students to adopt rebellious positions, defiant of any limit, discipline, or authority. But it… — Paulo Freire
Actual human discourse happens within a number of contexts, not in some sort of unified public forum. — Rowan Williams
My method is related to an attempt to do something that might be understood by today's world, or that could at least provide understanding. In… — Gerhard Richter
In the Phaedrus, Plato argued that the new arrival of writing would revolutionize culture for the worst. He suggested that it would substitute reminiscence for… — Marshall McLuhan
At least in the West, politicians, corporations and media moguls can no longer take for granted their power to control the public discourse - and… — David Puttnam
A moral lesson is better expressed in short sayings than in long discourse. — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann
I believe in poetic discourse, in the value of speech in a non-naturalistic way; it's speculative. — Howard Barker

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