Discourse Quotes

298 quotes by 242 authors

I am interested in levels of brain discourse. How articulate are the voices in your head? You know, there's a different voice for the phone,… — Anne Enright
I have and I will always work to promote a civil public discourse. — Bob Etheridge
A lot of people who voted for Barack Obama expected and were led to expect something new in politics: a new tone of political discourse… — Bernard Goldberg
A truly great university is a nucleus of artistic expression. It fosters creative, critical thought, and serves as a platform for civil discourse. — Gordon Gee
You need to go and find someone to teach you the rudiments of irrational discourse. — Larry Wall
It is becoming plain that our liberal regime of equality and personal freedom depends, more than most theorists of liberalism have been willing to admit,… — Mary Ann Glendon
The unification of opposites which characterizes the commercial and political style is one of the many ways in which discourse and communication make themselves immune… — Herbert Marcuse
Just as a moral distinction is drawn between "those at risk" and "those posing a risk", health education routinely draws a distinction between the harm… — Deborah Lupton
Health education emphasizing risks is a form of pedagogy, which, like other forms, serves to legitimize ideologies and social practices. Risk discourse in the public… — Deborah Lupton
No longer is the body a temple to be worshipped as the house of God; it has become a commodified and regulated object that must… — Deborah Lupton
In Israel, there is this reduction of the political discourse to something that is very limited. It's as if you have that pitch that only… — Etgar Keret
Somaaesthetics can be provisionally defined a the critical meliorative study of one's experience and use of one's body as a locus of sensory-aesthetic appreciation (aesthesis)… — Richard Shusterman
Politics isn't something that really interested me; I, of course, care about what's going on in the world, but so much of political discourse now… — Mike O'Malley
The good news is you can get a lot of information off the Internet for free and in a hurry. But I think the breaking… — William J. Clinton
Virtually all political discourse in the days of my youth was devoted to the ferreting out of hypocrisy... Because they were hypocrites, the Victorians were… — Neal Stephenson
The discourses of the table among true loving friends are held in strict silence. — Thomas Browne
O admirable necessity! O powerful action! What mind can penetrate your nature? What language can express this marvel? None, to be sure. This is where… — Leonardo da Vinci
The skilful class of flatterers praise the discourse of an ignorant friend and the face of a deformed one. — Juvenal
I love any discourse of rivers, and fish and fishing. — Izaak Walton
The spoken discourse may roll on strongly as the great tidal wave; but, like the wave, it dies at last feebly on the sands. It… — Albert Pike

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