Quotes about Debate
You may not know it, Mr. Earthbound, but the best way to advertise an idea is by attacking it.
- Napoleon Hill
Make no mistake about it: Law school is not a bastion of intellectual discourse.
- Tucker Max
What I think the political correctness debate is really about is the power to be able to define. The definers want the power to name. And the defined are now taking that power away from them.
- Toni Morrison
This debate has repercussions on how we live for God, how we relate to our neighbors both near and far, and how we connect with our Christian brothers. It affects the valuing of women, the quality of our marriages, and the teachings and behavioral patterns we pass on to our children. It shapes our ideas of what it means to be part of the body of Christ, how we develop and use our gifts, and what Jesus asks of us in fulfilling his mission for the world.
- Carolyn Custis James
Lawyers spend a great deal of time shovelling smoke.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
A difference of opinion is what makes horse racing and missionaries.
- Will Rogers
A Liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
- Robert Frost
A sophistical rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity.
- Benjamin Disraeli
Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it.
- Samuel Johnson
Every real thought on every real subject knocks the wind out of somebody or other.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
To try to preemptively shut down debate with name-calling is profoundly un-American and will harm this country.
- Eric Metaxas
If you try to assert wisdom before people have themselves walked it, be prepared for much resistance, denial, push-back, and verbal debate.
- Fr. Richard Rohr