Discourse Quotes

298 Discourse quotes by 242 unique authors

The simple record of these three short years of active life has done more to regenerate and soften mankind than all the discourses of philosophers… — William Edward Hartpole Lecky
But at a time when our discourse has become so sharply polarized - at a time when we are far too eager to lay the… — Barack Obama
It was the first and most striking characteristic of Socrates never to become heated in discourse, never to utter an injurious or insulting word --… — Epictetus
Where two discourse, if the anger of one rises, he is the wise man who lets the contest fall. — Plutarch
Once infected, the individual [infected with a god virus] cannot detect major contradictions in his beliefs and behavior. Belief systems become self-evident to him, and… — Darrel Ray
The poet's spoken discourse often depends on a mystique, on the spiritual freedom that finds itself enslaved on earth. — Salvatore Quasimodo
We will convert the entire world to Islam with our logic. We are confident that the Islamic logic, culture, and discourse can prove their superiority… — Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
Every single empire in its official discourse has said that it is not like all the others, that its circumstances are special, that it has… — Edward Said
The reduction of political discourse to sound bites is one of the worst things that's happened in American political life. — John Silber
The unconscious is the discourse of the Other. — Jacques Lacan
My curiosity, alas, is not the kind that can be satisfied by objective knowledge. Plato said that opinion is worthless and that only knowledge counts,… — Hayden Carruth
Moralists love to discourse on the hollowness of success; about the hollowness of failure they are silent. — Mason Cooley
The short interregnum of civil society built on the ruins of the Bastille came to its end with the establishment of the Jews as the… — Israel Shamir
Good as is discourse, silence is better and shames it. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Let us not look east and west for materials of conversation, but rest in presence and unity. A just feeling will fast enough supply fuel… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
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

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