Quotes about Debate
Controversy is bad for the spirit, however enlivening to the wits.
- Dorothy Sayers
Alcoholism is a disease. People will debate whether it is a disease of the mind, of genetics, or of circumstances. I don't have the answer to that debate, and frankly I don't care because when you try to pinpoint 'why,' it can often lead to blaming another person, an incident in your past, or circumstances.
- Eva Marie
There is an air of unreality in debating these arcane points when the world is changing in such dramatic ways right in front of our eyes because of global warming.
- Al Gore
The conversation on global warming has been stalled because a shrinking group of denialists fly into a rage when it's mentioned.
- Al Gore
Out of Plato come all things that are still written and debated about among men of thought.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Evolution is unobservable. It's based on blind faith in a few dry bones and on unreliable dating systems in which the gullible trust. Kids should be allowed to make up their own minds about this issue, and not be censored to 'one side is all we will let you hear.'
- Ray Comfort
Atheists don't hate fairies, leprechauns, or unicorns because they don't exist. It is impossible to hate something that doesn't exist. Atheists — like the painting experts hated the painter — hate God because He does exist.
- Ray Comfort
Evolution is the key to avoiding the whole issue of God. When you challenge evolution, you're basically challenging someone on a spiritual level.
- Frank Peretti
For centuries many of the world's distinguished philosophers have assaulted Christianity as being irrational, superstitious and absurd.
- Josh McDowell
I am surprised that anyone can profess to be an atheist.
- Ray Comfort
No man thoroughly understands a truth until he has contended against it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man who is furnished with arguments from the mint will convince his antagonist much sooner than one who draws them from reason and philosophy.
- Joseph Addison