Debate Quotes - Page 2

To pull off successful attacks in debates, you have to execute with nuance and subtlety. It has to be artful.

Are you an Israeli? I don't debate with Israelis. I have been misled, sorry. I don't recognise Israel and I don't debate with Israelis.

Sincere words are not fine; fine words are not sincere. Those who are skilled (in the Tao) do not dispute (about it); the disputatious are not skilled in it. Those who know (the Tao) are not extensively learned; the extensively learned do not know it.

There would be no debate about who was the best footballer the world had ever seen - me or Pele. Everyone would say me.

There is no Soviet domination of Eastern Europe.

We are Americans and we have a right to debate and disagree with any administration!

The daughter of debate That still discord doth sow.

Mental health is often missing from public health debates even though it's critical to wellbeing.

Whatever the field under discussion, those who engage in debate must not only believe in each other's good faith, but also in their capacity to arrive at the truth.

Debate is masculine, conversation is feminine.

It is not he who gains the exact point in dispute who scores most in controversy - but he who has shown the better temper.

I take the debate on the method of promoting democracy seriously

He who frames the question wins the debate.

In all intellectual debates, both sides tend to be correct in what they affirm, and wrong in what they deny.

American Jewry makes any debate on whether the ‘Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion’ are an authentic document or a forgery irrelevant. American Jews do control the world.

Books and harlots have their quarrels in public.

The gospel is a declaration, not a debate.

Modernist discourse [...] incorporates semantic devices - such as the labeling of theism as 'religion' and naturalism as 'science' - that work to prevent a dangerous debate over fundamental assumptions from breaking out in the open.

What intrigued me most was not the technology as such but the questions about the human goods, the fundamental human values and virtues that are raised by debates over biotechnology.

If you know that God loves you, you should never question a directive from Him. It will always be right and best. When He gives you a directive, you are not just to observe it, discuss it, or debate it. You are to obey it.

Political debate is more interested in manipulating the truth, than finding the truth.

The tension between 'yes' and no', between 'I can' and 'I cannot,' makes us feel that, in so many instances, human life is an interminable debate with one's self.

Let me explain something when I'm talking about sin, and I'm talking about all sin. One of the biggest ones that has been talked about that has really become a debate in America is homosexuality.

Debate is so much better than denial.

I got to watch some of Hillary Clinton's debates against Barack Obama. She treated him with terrible disrespect.