Discourse Quotes

298 Discourse quotes by 242 unique authors

There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men. — John Locke
There cannot be greater rudeness than to interrupt another in the current of his discourse. — John Locke
Scientific knowledge is a kind of discourse. — Jean-Francois Lyotard
Public discourse has been polluted now for decades by corporate-funded disinformation - not just with climate change but with a host of health, environmental and… — Michael E. Mann
Where wise actions are the fruit of life, wise discourse is the pollination. — Bryant H. McGill
In America, we don't, in daily discourse, use the words 'capitalism' or 'socialism.' They've been kind of nonexistent words, I would say, amongst the general… — Michael Moore
I'd like to see much more understanding of emotional issues around hurt, abandonment, disappointment, longing, failure and shame, where they stem from and how they… — Susie Orbach
For the sake of public discourse, for the demands of the free market, and for the value we place in citizen advocacy, Rush Limbaugh must… — Christine Pelosi
A good discourse is that from which nothing can be retrenched without cutting into the quick. — Saint Francis de Sales
When something really bad is going on in a culture, the average guy doesn't see it. He can't. He's average and is surrounded by and… — George Saunders
Preaching to the choir actually arms the choir with arguments and elevates the choir's discourse. There's a reason the right does it and does it… — Dan Savage
Proposition 19 already is a winner no matter what happens on election day. The mere fact of its being on the ballot has elevated and… — George Soros
There is that lovely feeling of one reader telling another, 'You must read this.' I've always wanted to write a book like that, with the… — Abraham Verghese
Almost anything is better than three network TV outlets completely controlling the national discourse with their nightly broadcasts. We've moved a long way from that,… — Jimmy Wales
Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue. — Izaak Walton
Let your Discourse with Men of Business be Short and Comprehensive. — George Washington
To be clear, I worry as much about the impact of the Internet as anyone else. I worry about shortening attention spans, the physical cost… — Andrew Weil
Racism is a moral catastrophe, most graphically seen in the prison industrial complex and targeted police surveillance in black and brown ghettos rendered invisible in… — Cornel West
This discourse, and the present frame of my mind, lead me rather to speak to those, who by feeling Satan's fiery darts, know assuredly that… — George Whitefield
With Barack Obama as president and the super-happening Michelle Obama as First Lady, you would think a new tone, a new tune, a kicky new… — James Wolcott
Discourse has ended in America. It's all just shouting and ranting and demonization. Do you know how the rest of the world laughs at you… — Felix Dennis
Make no mistake about it: Law school is not a bastion of intellectual discourse. — Tucker Max
The appearance in nineteenth-century psychiatry, jurisprudence, and literature of a whole series of discourses on the species and subspecies of homosexuality, inversion, pederasty, and "psychic… — Michel Foucault
Everything in our background has prepared us to know and resist a prison when the gates begin to close around us . . . But… — Neil Postman
it is my lady! *sighs* o, it is my love! o, that she knew she were! she speaks, yet she sais nothing. what of that?… — William Shakespeare

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