Debate Quotes
Once a ruler becomes religious, it becomes impossible for you to debate with him. Once someone rules in the name of religion, your lives become hell.
Too often character assassination has replaced debate in principle here in Washington. Destroy someone's reputation, and you don't have to talk about what he stands for.
A real leader uses every issue, no matter how serious and sensitive, to ensure that at the end of the debate we should emerge stronger and more united than ever before.
Let me light my lamp", says the star, "And never debate if it will help to remove the darkness
You can sway a thousand men by appealing to their prejudices quicker than you can convince one man by logic.
I only debate with serious political youth formations. Not a group of the racist Helen Zille's garden boys.
The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum.
The most important event I covered was the Panama Canal debate, which dragged on for months.
Tolerance once meant that we could use our reason to discern good and evil in open debate. Today tolerance has been used to call good evil and evil good.
The extreme positions of the Crossfire Syndrome require extreme simplification - framing the debate in terms which ignore the real issues.
If we left the European Union, it would be a one-way ticket, not a return. So we will have time for a proper, reasoned debate. At the end of that debate you, the British people, will decide.
The idea of a liberal media bias is simply a myth. If only it were true, we might have a more humane, open-minded, and ultimately effective public debate on the issues facing the country.
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In a body [like Congress] where there are more than one hundred talking lawyers, you can make no calculation upon the termination of any debate.
Be a student, not a follower. Take interest in what someone says, then debate it, ponder it, and consider it from all angles.
It is extremely important that individuals in the state of California do not own assault weapons. I mean that is just so crystal clear, there is no debate, no discussion.
To cut 1930s jobless, FDR taxed corps and rich. Govt used money to hire many millions. Worked then; would now again. Why no debate on that?
Those who cannot understand how to put their thoughts on ice should not enter into the heat of debate.
Listen first. Give your opponents a chance to talk. Let them finish. Do not resist, defend or debate. This only raises barriers. Try to build bridges of understanding.
I fear that, in the end, the famous debate among materialists, idealists, and dualists amounts to a merely verbal dispute that is more a matter for the linguist than for the speculative philosopher
Say the first word. Set the tone for the conversation. Be poised, prepared, and ready to say the first word in any debate or meeting.
Debate is healthy and no one in this chamber - starting with me - has a monopoly on being right.
I took the Canal Zone and let Congress debate; and while the debate goes on, the canal does also.
While people are free to draw different conclusions from the facts, there should be no debate over whether the American public is entitled to have all of the facts.
We now have an opportunity, though, to do something we didn't do in the industrial age, and that is to get a leg up on this, to bring the public in quickly, to have an informed debate.
Honest difference of views and honest debate are not disunity. They are the vital process of policy among free men.
Is there any point in public debate in a society where hardly anyone has been taught how to think, while millions have been taught what to think?
The federal government seeks to control and regulate the Internet, but the last thing this Congress should be doing is trying to stifle public debate online.
I do admit to mocking atheists, because mockery is a legitimate form of debate according to my rule Book. God Himself mocks evil men who refuse His moral government (see Proverbs 1:26-27).
I try with my pictures to raise a question, to provoke a debate, so that we can discuss problems together and come up with solutions.
We work on macro issues and macaroni and cheese issues. When women are in the halls of power, our national debate reflects the needs and dreams of American families.
What I want is to create a discussion about what is happening around the world and to provoke some debate with these pictures. Nothing more than this.
What scared me in that debate is that it's not about the ownership rules at all. The vast majority of people don't even know what the rules say, to be perfectly candid. Name all six of them.
We need to teach our children how to debate the major life issues. Debate strengthens their beliefs and enables them to defend themselves against ideologies that are going to come their way.
What we have to do... is to find a way to celebrate our diversity and debate our differences without fracturing our communities.
Are you an Israeli? I don't debate with Israelis. I have been misled, sorry. I don't recognise Israel and I don't debate with Israelis.
To pull off successful attacks in debates, you have to execute with nuance and subtlety. It has to be artful.
That's what we're missing. We're missing argument. We're missing debate. We're missing colloquy. We're missing all sorts of things. Instead, we're accepting.