Discourse Quotes

Angling is somewhat like poetry, men are to be born so: I mean, with inclinations to it, though both may be heightened by discourse and practice

Within our lifetime, we can remember a time when Islamism wasn't the dominant form of discourse or the aim should be to minimise the absolutists within any religious community and contain them.

The unsaid part is the best of every discourse.

It seems to be my destiny to discourse on truth, insofar as I discover it, in such a way that all possible authority is simultaneously demolished.

If Shakespeare required a word and had not met it in civilized discourse, he unhesitatingly made it up.

Power is the ability to take one's place in whatever discourse is essential to action and the right to have one's part matter.

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 well and triumphs.

Gossip is the currency of the discourse, so you should shut up about yourself. Never confess, never explain, never apologize, and never complain.

A critical discourse that had respect for the mystery of art would look to the sense of life which finds expression in paradox, metaphor, tautology, and syntax.

I grew up in the sort of cultural milieu that always regarded conversations about the political discourse as tremendously low-brow.

I've been trolled lots on Twitter. But I understand trolls for what they are and I don't let them get to me. They take my bait, so I'm in charge of the discourse.

All I say is by way of discourse, and nothing by way of advice. I should not speak so boldly if it were my due to be believed.

Discourse says, 'You are.' Rhetoric preserves the freedom to say, 'I am not.

We are all full of discourses that we only half understand and half mean.

Talk lives in a man’s head, but sometimes it is very lonely because in the heads of many men there is nothing to keep it company - and so talk goes out through the lips.

I have and I will always work to promote a civil public discourse.

Atheists have just as much of a right to the public discourse as any ... people of any religious faith in this country.

The subject of feminism cannot be purely a fiction, as some postmodern writers suggest, produced by the discourses of power.

Good discourse sinks differences and seeks agreements.

Affectation hath always had a greater share both in the action and discourse of men than truth and judgment have.

In our democracy and our civic discourse, it seems as if folks who take religion the most seriously are sometimes also those who are suspicious of those not like them.

All discourses but my own afflict me; they seem harsh, impertinent, and irksome

When feminist discourse is unable to discriminate the drunken fraternity brother from the homicidal maniac, women are in trouble.

I think we do have a better understanding now of how moral thought and discourse function.

I felt like there wasn't a political discourse. I felt like there was just one set of values, and any one set of values was wrong; that there should at least be room for conversation.

This type of discourse in the campaign is just unwarranted. But it was started by Ms.[Hillary] Clinton. Ms. Clinton has started the idea of calling Donald Trump those types of names [bigot].

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 go.

I'm actually with the classics in general in terms of understanding truth in an existential mode. Therefore, philosophy becomes more a way of life as opposed to simply a mode of discourse.

At least in the West, politicians, corporations and media moguls can no longer take for granted their power to control the public discourse - and have it go unchallenged.

Public discourse requires making an argument for a point of view, not having an argument - as in having a fight.

Words themselves - the very material of our discourse increasingly take on masks or disguises

All letters, methinks, should be free and easy as one's discourse, not studied, as an oration, nor made up of hard words like a charm.

President Obama, right after the Gabby Gifford shooting said we need to usher in a new era of civil discourse in politics. But not heeding his own advice.

I actually felt diminished by watching [Donald Trump's]. If this is what discourse has become in America, who even wants to know about it? It's just too demoralizing and unsettling.

Sweet discourse makes short daies and nights. [Sweet discourse makes short days and nights.]

In thy discourse, if thou desire to please; All such is courteous, useful, new, or wittie: Usefulness comes by labour, wit byease; Courtesie grows in court; news in the citie.

A truly great university is a nucleus of artistic expression. It fosters creative, critical thought, and serves as a platform for civil discourse.

Ideas, aspirations, and objectives that, by their content, transcend the established universe of discourse and action are either repelled or reduced to terms of this universe.

I believe in poetic discourse, in the value of speech in a non-naturalistic way; it's speculative.

In common discourse we denominate persons and things according to the major part of their character; he is to be called a wise man who has but few follies.

There is a difference between being a political force, or a political apparent force or a potential force, and between a real discourse or a real argument.

Is political discourse still just shouting opinions about subjective, hot-button issues based on poor understanding and outright ignorance about which agreements can never be reached?

I wish we had a more open discourse. It's just a shame that with our 24-hour news media and the Internet, people have become so fragmented. They only want to support their own worldview.

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, and that's important.

It's difficult for a society to have a healthy discourse on its future when people are afraid to gather to express themselves and authorities won't allow it.

...But why discourse Upon the Virtues of the Horse? They are too numerous to tell Save when you have a Horse to Sell.

Prose-it might be speculated-is discourse; poetry ellipsis. Prose is spoken aloud; poetry overheard.

... unless the actor is able to discourse most eloquently without opening his lips, he lacks the prime essential of a finished artist.

I've been trolled lots. But I understand trolls for what they are and I don't let them get to me. They take my bait, so I'm in charge of the discourse.

It seems Korean women are enjoying a passive and fragile status, intoxicated by appearance. Not only feminism, but any serious discourse ends up being swept away by popular culture in Korea.