Discourse Quotes

Scientific knowledge is a kind of discourse.

Liberty is like those solid and tasty foods or those full-bodied wines which are appropriate for nou...

One says the things which one feels the need to say, and which the other will not understand: one sp...

It may well be that we talk about sex more than anything else; we set our minds to the task; we conv...

Discourse is not life; its time is not your time; in it, you will not be reconciled to death; you ma...

Demetrius the grammarian finding in the temple of Delphos a knot of philosophers set chatting togeth...

We ought to punish pitilessly that shameful pretence of friendly intercourse. I like a man to be a m...

Of course, in television's presentation of the "news of the day," we may see the Now...this" mode of...

In America, everyone is entitled to an opinion, and it is certainly useful to have a few when a poll...

Marx understood well that the press was not merely a machine but a structure for discourse, which bo...

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

Voting, we might even say, is the next to last refuge of the politically impotent. The last refuge i...

We've taken on the major health problems of the poorest - tuberculosis, maternal mortality, AIDS, ma...

Today we live in a society in which spurious realities are manufactured by the media, by governments...

I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient.

I can do everything with my language but not with my body. What I hide by my language, my body utter...

as soon as we renounce fiction and illusion, we lose reality itself; the moment we subtract fictions...

If this constant sliding and hiding of meaning were true of conscious life, then we would of course ...

Whatever universe a professor believes in must at any rate be a universe that lends itself to length...

He was telling an interesting anecdote full of exciting words like "encyclopedia" and "rhododendron"...

How can we satisfy ourselves without going on in infinitum? And, after all, what satisfaction is the...

A government of, by, and for the people requires that people talk to people, that we can agree to di...

Let your Discourse with Men of Business be Short and Comprehensive.