Discourse Quotes

298 Discourse quotes by 242 unique authors

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… — Unknown Author
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 this… this country was founded on the principles of the Enlightenment… It was the idea that people… — Wesley Clark
Discourse says, 'You are.' Rhetoric preserves the freedom to say, 'I am not. — Samuel R. Delany
If there is an ‘overabundance' of an idea in the absence of direct governmental action -- which there well might be when compared with some… — Elena Kagan
If you listen to the political discourse in America today, you would think that all our problems have been caused by the Mexicans of the… — Fareed Zakaria
An anecdote is related of Sir Anthony Ashley Cooper (1621-1683), who, in speaking of religion, said, "People differ in their discourse and profession about these… — Gilbert Burnet
There is in the chemist a form of thought by which all ideas become visible in the mind as strains of an imagined piece of… — Justus von Liebig
Without approval and without scorn, but carefully studying the sentences word by word, one should trace them in the Discourses and verify them by the… — Gautama Buddha
A man's behavior is the index of the man, and his discourse is the index of his understanding. — Ali ibn Abi Talib
[T]here is a methodological bias in favor of taking natural discourse literally, other things being equal. For example, unless there are clear reasons for construing… — Tyler Burge
When I look at the Republicans, I am tempted to dismiss them as the Treason Party. Seriously, were a band of traitors to concoct a… — Neil Steinberg
A written discourse on any subject is bound to contain much that is fanciful. — Plato

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