Quotes about Debate

You may not know it, Mr. Earthbound, but the best way to advertise an idea is by attacking it.

Make no mistake about it: Law school is not a bastion of intellectual discourse.

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.

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.

Lawyers spend a great deal of time shovelling smoke.

A difference of opinion is what makes horse racing and missionaries.

A Liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.

A sophistical rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity.

Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it.

Every real thought on every real subject knocks the wind out of somebody or other.

To try to preemptively shut down debate with name-calling is profoundly un-American and will harm this country.

If you try to assert wisdom before people have themselves walked it, be prepared for much resistance, denial, push-back, and verbal debate.