Quotes about discussion (1215 quotes, page 13)

“I’ve also seen both sexes mistreat their servants, servants’ children, and scream abuses at poor people in the markets. In Pakistan, abuse is not as openly discussed as it is in the West. Abuse seems to be more acceptable as long as one maintains a luxury lifestyle.”

Cynthia D. Ritchie

Cynthia D. Ritchie attributed in Who let the dogs out?, Pakistan Today . Com https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2020/06/21/who-let-the-dogs-out-3/ 2020 June, 21.

Sex , Children , People

“The contradiction between Christian exclusivism and true liberalism is seldom discussed openly and perhaps even privately.”

Rajiv Malhotra book Being Different

Source: Being Different: An Indian Challenge to Western Universalism (2011)

“Now, if we establish right here at the beginning that all three of us are supporters of all laws that protect trans people, that we believe in all the dignity, equality, and respect that can be afforded to trans people, can we have an honest, free discussion about this?”

Bill Maher (1956) American stand-up comedian

Source: Andrew Yang & John McWhorter on Dave Chappelle and 'Transphobia', (2021)

People , Law , Support

“The steps taken today serve to preserve the basic features of socialist renewal. All the reforms will be continued in an atmosphere of order, businesslike discussion and discipline, also economic reform.”

Wojciech Jaruzelski (1923–2014) Polish military officer and politician

Source: Excerpts of Martial law speech (14 December 1981)

“In discussing tradition, we are not discussing arbitrary rules and conventions. We are discussing answers that have been discovered to enduring questions.”

Roger Scruton book How to Be a Conservative

Source: How to Be a Conservative (2014), p. 21

Question

“I hope that we can have discussions. Even if we disagree we should be able to leave with good will towards each other. If we don't we are both poorer for it and we're not a better Canada”

Mark Donnelly (1960) Canadian singer

Source: Anthem singer sings and believes in O Canada https://web.archive.org/web/20150725124144/http://www.bccatholic.ca/the-news/1775-anthem-singer-sings-and-believes-in-o-canada (23 June 2012)

Hope

“It is known that very distant nebulae, probably galactic systems like our own, show remarkably high receding velocities whose magnitude increases with the distance. This curious phenomenon promises to provide some important clues for the future development of our cosmological views. It maybe of advantage, therefore, to point out some of the principal facts which any cosmological theory will have to account for. Then a brief discussion will be given of different theoretical suggestions related to the above effect. Finally, a new effect of masses upon light will be suggested which is a sort of gravitational analogue of the Compton effect.”

Fritz Zwicky (1898–1974) Swiss astronomer

Source: Fritz Zwicky, [On the redshift of spectral lines through interstellar space, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 15, 10, 1929, 773–779, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC522555/] (quote from p. 773)

Light , Distant , Future

“A civilized society is one which never ceases having a discussion with itself about what human life should best be.”

A. C. Grayling (1949) English philosopher

Source: Life, Sex, and Ideas: The Good Life Without God (2002), “Introduction” (p. xiii)

Life

“There’s something about writing books that gives us the permission to discuss things that aren’t as easy to talk about in everyday life. To me, the whole point of writing books is to look at the unexamined, the unspeakable, and the unarticulated.”

Susan Cain (1968) self-help writer

Mineo, Liz (interviewer), "That feeling you get when listening to sad music? It's humanity", The Harvard Gazette, May 11, 2022.

Books , Life

“Immigration was, and is, an issue. In my constituency it has for years been question number one, into which discussion of every other political topic—housing, health, benefits, employment—promptly turned.”

Enoch Powell (1912–1998) British politician

'Tories in the Wilderness', The Sunday Telegraph (18 October 1964), quoted in Paul Corthorn, Enoch Powell: Politics and Ideas in Modern Britain (2019), p. 79
1960s

Housing , Health , Question

“Before discussing specific situations and conflicts it is essential to acknowledge that problems can be solved only after the primacy of conscience has been recognized.”

Marco Respinti (1964)

"Tai Ji Men Dizi as Global Ambassadors of Good Will" https://bitterwinter.org/tai-ji-men-dizi-global-ambassadors-of-good-will/

Problem

“Russians go away, Russian soldiers have to go away from our home country - and after that we are ready to discuss.”

Vitali Klitschko (1971) Ukrainian boxer and politician

2022

Home , Country

“Although Christ commits many acts that might be considered revolutionary, as we discussed in Rule I, He is nonetheless explicitly portrayed in the Gospels as the master of tradition.”

Jordan Peterson book Beyond Order

Source: Books, Beyond Order (2021), p. 197

Christ

“The logic of the sanctions is arguably to starve the people and reduce the political consensus for the authorities and thereby overthrow the government. But as a Pastor, I see that people suffer from poverty and it doesn't seem to me that discussions about democracy are a priority for them.”

Joseph Tobji (1971) archeparch of Maronite Catholic Archeparchy of Aleppo

Archbishop Tobji of Aleppo after the presidential election: "Sanctions cause hunger and do not lead to more democracy" http://www.fides.org/en/news/70210-ASIA_SYRIA_Archbishop_Tobji_of_Aleppo_after_the_presidential_election_Sanctions_cause_hunger_and_do_not_lead_to_more_democracy (28 May 2021)

Democracy , People , Suffering

“The woman who does not provoke any discussion has no interest in you.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: La donna che non provoca alcuna discussione non ha alcun interesse per te.
Source: prevale.net

Quotes about discussion page 13

Quotes about discussion
page 13