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Sermons remain one of the last forms of public discourse where it is culturally forbidden to talk back.
— Harvey Cox
Bad faith likes discourse on friendship and loyalty.
— Mason Cooley
Change of weather is the discourse of fools.
— Thomas Fuller
The lover's discourse is usually a smooth envelope which encases the Image, a very gentle glove around the loved being.
— Roland Barthes
To glorify democracy and to silence the people is a farce; to discourse on humanism and to negate people is a lie.
— Paulo Freire
I hold to the idea that civility, understood as the willingness to engage in public discourse, is the first virtue of citizens.
— Mark Kingwell
Things it is not polite to discuss at the dinner table: politics, religion, and the walking dead.
— Mira Grant
How can a democratic discourse exist in a corporate owned informational system? Who, for example, possesses freedom of speech in such a society?
— Herbert Schiller
Political discourse has been reduced to "Where's the beef?" "Read my lips," and "Make my day." Where are the assassins when we really need them?
— George Carlin
Two truths are all too often overshadowed in today's political discourse: Public service is a most honorable pursuit, and so is bipartisanship.
— Olympia Snowe
truisms at least have the merit of being true, which distinguishes them from a good deal of political discourse. And
— Noam Chomsky
Bid me discourse, I will enchant thine ear
— William Shakespeare
The grandest discourse ever delivered is an ostentatious failure if the doctrine of the grace of God be absent from it.
— Charles Spurgeon
False attributions are the bane of legitimate discourse.
— Winston Smith
It is an impertinent and unreasonable fault in conversation for one man to take up all the discourse.
— Richard Steele
To counter the fixation on a rhetoric of victimhood, black folks must engage in a discourse of self-determination.
— Bell Hooks
Political discourse has become so rotten that it's no longer possible to tell the stench of one presidential candidate from the stink of another.
— P. J. O'Rourke
There cannot be greater rudeness than to interrupt another in the current of his discourse.
— John Locke
It is still possible to have friendly discourse in America, as long as you don't bring up any subject.
— Robert Breault
Where two discourse, if the anger of one rises, he is the wise man who lets the contest fall.
— Plutarch
It seems to be my destiny to discourse on truth, insofar as I discover it, in such a way that all possible authority is simultaneously demolished.
— Soren Kierkegaard
you don't get far in political discourse with counterfactual arguments that "it would have been even worse.
— Alan S. Blinder
Words themselves - the very material of our discourse increasingly take on masks or disguises
— Dennis Potter
But why at least? What a business it is, the human discourse. I
— John Banville
Dostoevsky's hero is not an objectified image but an autonomous discourse, pure voice; we do not see him, we hear him;
— Mikhail Bakhtin
A sat note crept into his voice. "But something's missing now from political discourse.""What?"
"Caring about others," he said. — Ellen Levine
Neuter discourse is a false idol.
— Richard M. Weaver
Let your Discourse with Men of Business be Short and Comprehensive.
— George Washington
Words are mostly used to keep us asleep, not to wake us.
— Richard Flanagan
I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient.
— Roland Barthes
When feminist discourse is unable to discriminate the drunken fraternity brother from the homicidal maniac, women are in trouble.
— Camille Paglia
Good as is discourse, silence is better and shames it.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Particular reinscription in the cinema of a discourse of the image and the look in indigenous conventions.
— Anonymous
If Shakespeare required a word and had not met it in civilized discourse, he unhesitatingly made it up.
— Amy Koppelman
Discourse on virtue and they pass by in droves. Whistle and dance and shimmy, and you've got an audience!
— Diogenes Laertius
It's fun talking to you ... like walking on the edge of a precipice. At first one's nervous but then courage takes over from somewhere.
— Ivan Turgenev
It's very much the currency of discourse on social media where political disagreements very quickly become very personalised.
— Nicola Sturgeon
Allegories, when well chosen, are like so many tracks of light in a discourse, that make everything about them clear and beautiful.
— Joseph Addison
The beautiful is powerless but always exceeds what frames it, and what always frames it is discourse.
— Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe
good writing and brilliant discourse are perpetual allegories. This
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The discourse of the West and the attitudes of its leaders are important because they influence public debate in Turkey.
— Safak Pavey
The most tedious of all discourses are on the subject of the Supreme Being.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
I love any discourse of rivers, and fish and fishing.
— Izaak Walton
The unsaid part is the best of every discourse.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Profanity is the parlance of the fool. Why curse when there is such a magnificent language with which to discourse?
— Theodore Roosevelt
But why discourse Upon the Virtues of the Horse? They are too numerous to tell Save when you have a Horse to Sell.
— Josh Billings
What we won't do is pretend that the work of lunatic charlatans is the equivalent of "true scientific discourse." It isn't.
— Jimmy Wales
A man's behavior is the index of the man, and his discourse is the index of his understanding.
— Ali Ibn Abi Talib
Scientific knowledge is a kind of discourse.
— Jean-Francois Lyotard
As the growing emphasis on feelings crowds out reason, facts will play a smaller role in public discourse.
— Paul Craig Roberts
No Discourse whatsoever, can End in absolute Knowledge of Fact.
— Thomas Hobbes
The meetings and marches and vigils are cool, but if the enemy isn't present, you're just talking slick to a can of oil.
— Darnell Lamont Walker
Cosmopolitan discourse ... provides one with a _public gaze_ with which one can relate oneself to others in a different way.
— Namsoon Kang
Author describes one monarch's impressive table but conveys a contemporary's observation, "the weightiest thing at dinner was the conversation".
— Peter Heather
As I say, I'm a discourse advocate. What form it comes is less important to me than the fact that there is discourse.
— Jim Lehrer
It is dangerous to engage in even the most innocuous-seeming discourse with the FBI/ Homeland Security/ a local detective.
— Ingrid Newkirk
I am comfortable with my level of public discourse.
— Neil Armstrong
I grew up in the sort of cultural milieu that always regarded conversations about the political discourse as tremendously low-brow.
— Joseph Brodsky
There is nothing in discourse that is not to be found in a sentence.
— Roland Barthes
All letters, methinks, should be free and easy as one's discourse, not studied, as an oration, nor made up of hard words like a charm ...
— Dorothy Osborne
The level of discourse reaching a mailbox simply cannot be limited to that which would be suitable for a sandbox.
— John Paul Stevens
The reduction of political discourse to sound bites is one of the worst things that's happened in American political life.
— John Silber
I think the best grace of wit will shortly turn into silence, and discourse grow commendable in none only but parrots.
— William Shakespeare
The unconscious is the discourse of the Other.
— Jacques Lacan
Literature is my Utopia ... No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourse of my book-friends
— Helen Keller
Discourse says, 'You are.' Rhetoric preserves the freedom to say, 'I am not.
— Samuel R. Delany
A good discourse is that from which nothing can be retrenched without cutting into the quick.
— Saint Francis De Sales
Good discourse sinks differences and seeks agreements.
— Amos Bronson Alcott
... CEOs are the ghost writers of the political discourse ...
— Paulo Da Costa
Debates educated a nation. That educative function had atrophied during decades of making decisions behind closed doors.
— Robert A. Caro
The search for the means to put an end to things, an end to speech, is what enables the discourse to continue.
— Samuel Beckett
Now no discourse, except it be of Love;Now I can break my fast, dine, sup and sleep
Upon the very naked name of Love. — William Shakespeare
