Debate Quotes

I will only debate with my equals. All others I teach.

The cure for crime is not the electric chair, but the high chair.

Do not debate! is one of my inventions.

The extreme positions of the Crossfire Syndrome require extreme simplification - framing the debate in terms which ignore the real issues.

Debate and divergence of views can only enrich our history and culture.

Now, since the time of Newton there had been a debate about whether light was a wave - that is, a traveling disturbance in some background medium - or a particle, which travels regardless of the presence of a background medium. The observation of Maxwell that electromagnetic waves must exist and that their speed was identical to that of light ended the debate: light was an electromagnetic wave.

Be a student, not a follower. Take interest in what someone says, then debate it, ponder it, and consider it from all angles.

To cut 1930s jobless, FDR taxed corps and rich. Govt used money to hire many millions. Worked then; would now again. Why no debate on that?

Those who cannot understand how to put their thoughts on ice should not enter into the heat of debate.

I fear that, in the end, the famous debate among materialists, idealists, and dualists amounts to a merely verbal dispute that is more a matter for the linguist than for the speculative philosopher

The use of God in moral debate is so problematic as to be almost worthless.

Say the first word. Set the tone for the conversation. Be poised, prepared, and ready to say the first word in any debate or meeting.

Debate is healthy and no one in this chamber - starting with me - has a monopoly on being right.

Reproductive freedom means economic freedom. And that's what this debate is about.

Debates conceal rather than reveal the truth. Truth is revealed in solitude.

I am for secret, dark debates.

Is the Labour Party to remain a democratic party in which the right of free criticism and free debate is not merely tolerated but encouraged? Or are the rank and file of the party to be bludgeoned or cowed into an uncritical subservience towards the leadership?

Is there any point in public debate in a society where hardly anyone has been taught how to think, while millions have been taught what to think?

In debates between anarchists and statists, the burden of proof clearly should rest on those who place their trust in the state. Anarchy's mayhem is wholly conjectural; the state's mayhem is undeniably, factually horrendous.

Necessity does not submit to debate.

We must learn to outgrow our egos in exchange for constructive dialogue rather than debate. In addition, we must be capable of stating problems and proposing solutions clearly and succinctly, without distortion of meaning or misunderstanding, even when these solutions are radically opposed to accepted norms.

What I want is to create a discussion about what is happening around the world and to provoke some debate with these pictures. Nothing more than this.

In all debates, let truth be thy aim, not victory, or an unjust interest.

What scared me in that debate is that it's not about the ownership rules at all. The vast majority of people don't even know what the rules say, to be perfectly candid. Name all six of them.

That's what we're missing. We're missing argument. We're missing debate. We're missing colloquy. We're missing all sorts of things. Instead, we're accepting.