Debating Quotes

Our civic life is heavily marked—indeed, pocked—by debates in which each side is so certain of its position that any movement is effectively impossible. For that matter, debate—in its original sense of “to consider something, to deliberate”—is impossible. We wind up with so much sound and fury and nothing gained.

Leah Hager Cohen

Excluding certain ideas and thoughts, calling them hate speech, is an important piece in the progressive movement’s puzzle. If you can’t win an argument logically, demonize your opponent, make him out to be a bad person and all of a sudden the ideas he stands for become bad as well.

Healthy debating enforces critical thinking principles - looking at things from the different angles, with increased perspective and less prejudgment.

Pearl Zhu

It’s not about some principled debate as to whether I should focus on what I have, or on what I don’t have. Rather, it’s about being thankful that I have the privilege to enjoy the former, and the opportunity to contemplate the latter.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

Pause your opinions, debating and absolute knowing for long enough to conceive gratitude.

I strongly object to wrong arguments on the right side. I think I object to them more than to the wrong arguments on the wrong side.

G.K. Chesterton

The key to holding a logical argument or debate is to allow oneself to understand the other person’s argument no matter how divergent their views may seem.

Auliq-Ice

I don’t even pretend to believe I know everything; I just believe in arguments God told me I had a pretty good chance of winning, while I was traveling through hell.

Shannon L. Alder

It is the nature of physics to hear the loudest of mouths over the most comprehensive ones.

Meanings with no purpose are useful for meaningless debates on what the "meaner" meant. And that's what #politics is all about - misreading.

Psychobabble attempts to redefine the entire English language just to make a correct statement incorrect. Psychology is the study of why someone would try to do this.

Psychobabble attempts to redefine the entire English language just to make a correct statement incorrect. Psychology is the study of why someone would try to do this.

These days when Christians bicker they exaggerate passion into a legalistic belief and prosperity into a lukewarm belief.

If you have to say or do something controversial, aim so that people will hate that they love it and not love that they hate it.