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Discussion Quotes by John Stuart Mill
- All silencing of discussion is an assumption of infallibility.
- To refuse a hearing to an opinion, because they are sure that it is false, is to assume that their certainty is the same thing…
- There is never any fair and thorough discussion of heretical opinions... The greatest harm done is to those who are not heretics, and whose whole…
- Every great movement must experience three stages: ridicule, discussion, adoption.
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- Every thing secret degenerates, even the administration of justice; nothing is safe that does not show how it can bear discussion and… — Lord Acton
- Machiavelli's teaching would hardly have stood the test of Parliamentary government, for public discussion demands at least the profession of good faith. — Lord Acton
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- Power is action; the electoral principle is discussion. No political action is possible when discussion is permanently established. — Honore de Balzac
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- I just like making people laugh, and buried in that I like to bring up topics and start discussions. — Albert Brooks