Quotes about Debate

There is a difference between discussion and argument. A discussion airs the issues, but an argument alleges charges and appoint blame.

I don't know why Christians keep fighting over which is better-singleness or marriage-when it seems rather obvious, both from Scripture and from Church history, that both can glorify God.

I refuse to engage in an intellectual battle with an unarmed man.

I do admit to mocking atheists, because mockery is a legitimate form of debate according to my rule Book. God Himself mocks evil men who refuse His moral government (see Proverbs 1:26-27).

The line, often adopted by strong men in controversy, of justifying the means by the end.

The very man who has argued you down, will sometimes be found, years later, to have been influenced by what you said

The cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas.

If we know only our own side of the argument, we hardly know even that; it becomes stale, soon learned only by rote, untested, a pallid and lifeless truth.

through lowered educational standards, declining intellectual competence, diminished zest for substantive debate, and social sanctions against skepticism, our liberties can be slowly eroded and our rights subverted.

Trends working at least marginally towards the implantation of a very narrow range of attitudes, memories, and opinions include control of major television networks and newspapers by a small number of similarly motivated powerful corporation and individuals, the disappearance of competitive daily newspapers in many cities, the replacement of substantive debate by sleaze in political campaigns, and episodic erosion of the principal of the separation of powers.

Presumably no one would argue that the conservative view on the sum of 14 and 27 differs from the liberal view

The person who knows only his side of the argument knows little of that.