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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

I take the debate on the method of promoting democracy seriously

He who frames the question wins the debate.

Books and harlots have their quarrels in public.

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.

The gospel is a declaration, not a debate.

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.

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.

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.

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

Debate is masculine, conversation is feminine.

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

Debate is so much better than denial.

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.

My statements aren't incomplete, they're just in-progress. It's a debate and a discussion.

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