Discourse Quotes

Before the US (2006) mid-term elections, my rabbi was taking a lot of flak. The congregation is exclusive-liberal, yet he is a self-described independent (read "conservative") and he was driving the flock wild. Why? Because a) he never discussed politics; and b) he taught that the quality of political discourse must be addressed first; that Jewish law teaches that it is incumbent upon one to hear the other fellow out. `So I, like many of the liberal congregation, began - teeth grinding - to attempt to do so. And in doing so I recognised that I held two views of America. `One was of a state where everything was magically wrong and must be immediately corrected at any cost; and the other (the world in which I actually functioned day to day) was made up of people who were in the main reasonably trying to maximise their comfort by getting along with one another (in the workplace, the marketplace, the jury room, even the school meeting). `And I realised that the time had come for me to avow my participation in the country in which I chose to live - and that this country was not a schoolroom teaching values, but a marketplace.

It is hard to know what you are talking about in mathematics, yet no one questions the validity of what you say. There is no other realm of discourse half so queer.

On the other side, I do believe that the rhetoric we are seeing from the Democrats today is unprecedented, is a new low in presidential politics and goes beyond political discourse and amounts to political hate speech.

Discourse is fleeting, but junk mail is forever.

I`m in the civil discourse business. I think it takes all kinds. And more power to everybody.

As I say, I`m a discourse advocate. What form it comes is less important to me than the fact that there is discourse.

There cannot be greater rudeness than to interrupt another in the current of his discourse.

We`ve taken on the major health problems of the poorest - tuberculosis, maternal mortality, AIDS, malaria - in four countries. We`ve scored some victories in the sense that we`ve cured or treated thousands and changed the discourse about what is possible.

Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.

Where wise actions are the fruit of life, wise discourse is the pollination.

This discourse, and the present frame of my mind, lead me rather to speak to those, who by feeling Satan`s fiery darts, know assuredly that there is a devil.

Fruitful discourse in science or theology requires us to believe that within the contexts of normal discourse there are some true statements.

Language is not merely a set of unrelated sounds, clauses, rules, and meanings; it is a total coherent system of these integrating with each other, and with behavior, context, universe of discourse, and observer perspective.

But ultimately what I was impressed by during my years in government was how much the intellectual climate and the prevailing intellectual notions constrained and represented the universe within which the discourse took place.

Fancy your having no sunshine in London yesterday! Here it was glorious, like full summer, and I sat up with the window wide open, listening to the discourse of two amorous thrushes.

I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient.

The poet`s spoken discourse often depends on a mystique, on the spiritual freedom that finds itself enslaved on earth.

It appears that ABC Radio has caved to an organization that condemns talk radio hosts like me, but has never condemned Hamas, Hezbollah, and one that wouldn`t specifically condemn al-Qaida for three months after 9-11.As a fan of talk radio, I find it absolutely outrageous that pressure from a special interest group like CAIR can result in the abandonment of free speech and open discourse on a talk radio show. As a conservative talk host whose job is to have an open, honest conversation each day with my listeners, I believe caving to this pressure is a disaster.

I?m part of the discourse now. I?m not just on the fringe commentating about the auto industry.