Discourse Quotes
Discourse Quote of the day
The debates are part of the unconscionable fraud that our political campaigns have become a format that defies meaningful discourse. They should be charged with sabotaging the electoral process.
Expose every belief to the light of reason, discourse, facts, scientific observations; question everything, be sceptical because this is the only chance at life you will ever get.
But one did not do feminist theory, as such, in those days, not only because male academic discourse did not recognize such a term, but especially because the womens movement did not either.
Cities, like dreams, are made of desires and fears, even if the thread of their discourse is secret, their rules are absurd, their perspectives deceitful, and everything conceals something else.
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 our pinching cave, shall we discourse The freezing hours away?
Discourse on virtue and they pass by in droves. Whistle and dance the shimmy, and you've got an audience.
To counter the fixation on a rhetoric of victimhood, black folks must engage in a discourse of self-determination.
Prayer is not a discourse. It is a form of life, the life with God. That is why it is not confined to the moment of verbal statement.
Spokespeople sell women the Iron Maiden and name her "Health": if public discourse were really concerned with women's health, it would turn angrily upon this aspect of the beauty myth.
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 there is a devil.
Allegories, when well chosen, are like so many tracks of light in a discourse, that make everything about them clear and beautiful.
A film is one small voice among other large ones. The film is a tiny part of the discourse. You do what you can but under no illusions of what a film can do.
If things are too similar, the dialogue is not very interesting. If you put in contrast, big and small, abstract and representational, you set up the possibility of a discourse.
In poetry, even discourse about doubts must be cast in a discourse that cannot be doubted.
There cannot be greater rudeness than to interrupt another in the current of his discourse.
I'm not shy about heated debate or passionate discourse, but when people get crazy or rude, that's a buzz kill. There's got to be a better code of conduct, some basic etiquette.
A man's behavior is the index of the man, and his discourse is the index of his understanding.
Two truths are all too often overshadowed in today's political discourse: Public service is a most honorable pursuit, and so is bipartisanship.
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 immersed in the cant and discourse of the status quo.
The skilful class of flatterers praise the discourse of an ignorant friend and the face of a deformed one.
Every discourse, even a poetic or oracular sentence, carries with it a system of rules for producing analogous things and thus an outline of methodology.
Profanity is the parlance of the fool. Why curse when there is such a magnificent language with which to discourse?
To write or speak is to communicate. To communicate is to share meanings, make them ‘common’ to all participants in the discourse. (The etymological root of communication means ‘common.’)
We atheists can argue that, with the modern revolution in attitudes toward homosexuals, we have become the only group that may not reveal itself in normal social discourse.
The French equate intelligence with rational discourse, the Russians with intense soul-searching. For the Mexican, intelligence is inseparable from maliciousness.
I think a Play the best divertisement that wise men have: but I do also think them nothing so who do discourse so formallie about the rules of it, as if 'twere the grand affair of humane life.
The search for the means to put an end to things, an end to speech, is what enables the discourse to continue.
There is not one but many silences, and they are an integral part of the strategies that underlie and permeate discourses.
A lawsuit is to ordinary life what war is to peacetime. In a lawsuit, everybody on the other side is bad. A trial transcript is a discourse in malevolence.
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, commerce, religion.
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 public discourse.
I hold to the idea that civility, understood as the willingness to engage in public discourse, is the first virtue of citizens.
how can a democratic discourse exist in a corporate owned informational system? Who, for example, possesses freedom of speech in such a society?
I'm in the civil discourse business. I think it takes all kinds. And more power to everybody.
As the growing emphasis on feelings crowds out reason, facts will play a smaller role in public discourse.
A good discourse is that from which nothing can be retrenched without cutting into the quick.
Every leader, and every regime, and every movement, and every organization that steps across the line to terrorism must be banished from the discourse of civilized human life.
Man has much power of discourse which for the most part is vain and false; animals have but little, but it is useful and true, and a small truth is better than a great lie.
Be not too hasty to trust or to admire the teachers of morality; they discourse like angels, but they live like men.