Debate Quotes

He who cannot put his thoughts on ice should not enter into the heat of dispute.

The thing that strikes me more and more, is the extraordinary viciousness and dishonesty of politica...

Bodisham insisted upon a series of conferences with practically all the Group present and participat...

Freedom means the right of people to assemble, organize, and debate openly.

If the leadership can't win a debate, then we should show true leadership and implement the democrat...

Dad was always that way: who's the candidate that's best for this country? We can debate theology la...

The idea that you have to be protected from any kind of uncomfortable emotion is what I absolutely d...

The beliefs which we have the most warrant for have no safeguard, but a standing invitation to the w...

It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it.

When a person's religious beliefs cause him to deny the evidence of science, or for whom public poli...

I hated discussing ideas with investors," he said, "because I then become a Defender of the Idea, an...

I put forward formless and unresolved notions, as do those who publish doubtful questions to debate ...

I fear that, in the end, the famous debate among materialists, idealists, and dualists amounts to a ...

The point is that television does not reveal who the best man is. In fact, television makes impossib...

He listened to their opinions, stated his own, and supported them with reasons; and from his being c...

The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable op...

They argued about the weather, sports, sex, war, race, politics, and religion; neither of them knew ...

You can sway a thousand men by appealing to their prejudices quicker than you can convince one man b...

If you've got the truth you can demonstrate it. Talking doesn't prove it.

Nonsense has taken up residence in the heart of public debate and also in the academy. This nonsense...

Scotland needs comedy more than ever. With the independence debate, finally after 300 years, reachin...

Ideas matter—and philosophy is the art of thinking about them rigorously. In my view, that should be...

If you held to principle so passionately, so inflexibly, indifferent in the particulars of circumsta...

The difference between bush and ladder also allows us to put a lid on a fruitless and boring debate....

A novel is an impression, not an argument; and there the matter must rest.

When describing the University of Virginia: Here, We are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may ...

Once a person has made some sort of stable, symbolic connection between two things, the connection w...

A lively discussion is usually helpful, because the hottest fire makes the hardest steel.

Politics is good; when it works properly, disagreements get solved without people beating each other...

A second marked characteristic of the Liberal in debate with the conservative is the tacit premise t...

Therefore, when a person refuses to come to Christ it is never just because of a lack of evidence or...

In all debates, let truth be thy aim, not victory, or an unjust interest.

Take the Pyramids. Great blocks of useless masonry, put up to minister to the egoism of a despotic b...

It's hard to have that debate around secret programs authorized by secret legal opinions issued by a...

[I retained] only the Habit of expressing my self in Terms of modest Diffidence, never using when I ...

Nothing is more dangerous to one's own faith than the work of an apologist. No doctrine of that fait...

By the very act of arguing, you awake the patient's reason; and once it is awake, who can foresee th...

[M]an has been accustomed, ever since he was a boy, to having a dozen incompatible philosophies danc...

Those at too great a distance may, I am well are, mistake ignorance for perspective.

Let's say that the consensus is that our species, being the higher primates, Homo Sapiens, has been ...

I'm very depressed how in this country you can be told "That's offensive" as though those two words ...

Some readers may have noticed an icy little missive from Noam Chomsky ["Letters," December 3], repud...

The 'pre-emption' versus 'prevention' debate may be a distinction without much difference. The impor...

About once or twice every month I engage in public debates with those whose pressing need it is to w...

I think in our desire to create a better America,we have to have civilized debate in this country an...

I'll stop eating steak when you stop killing spiders." Absurdity: comparing cows to spiders. Arachni...

There would be no debate about who was the best footballer the world had ever seen - me or Pele. Eve...

Has it ever struck you as odd, or unfortunate, that today, when the proportion of literacy is higher...

It may happen sometimes that a long debate becomes the cause of a longer friendship. Commonly, those...