Our Discourse Quotes
- 'As a man who knows how to make his education into a rule of life not a means of showing off; who can control himself… — Michel de Montaigne
- Words themselves - the very material of our discourse increasingly take on masks or disguises — Dennis Potter
- Our growing ability to eliminate the slow-moving aspects of entertainment and go hopping from one peak to another is not without cost. Stand-up comics, movie-makers… — William Raspberry
- 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
- Civility is not not saying negative or harsh things. It is not the absence of critical analysis. It is the manner in which we are… — Richard Dreyfuss
- If we wish to know about a man, we ask 'what is his story--his real, inmost story?'--for each of us is a biography, a story.… — Oliver Sacks
- While believing strongly, without evidence, is considered a mark of madness or stupidity in any other area of our lives, faith in God still holds… — Sam Harris
- The moment our discourse rises above the ground-line of familiar facts, and is inflamed with passion or exalted thought, it clothes itself in images. A… — Ralph Waldo Emerson