It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it.
If I tell you that I would be disobeying the god and on that account it is impossible for me to keep quiet, you won't be persuaded by me, taking it that I am ionizing. And if I tell you that it is the greatest good for a human being to have discussions every day about virtue and the other things you hear me talking about, examining myself and others, and that the unexamined life is not livable for a human being, you will be even less persuaded.
Nothing like watching your relatives fight, I always say.
When you're in the Middle of an Argument, ask yourself: Do I want to be Right or be Happy?
When men abandon reason, physical force becomes their only means of dealing with one another and of settling disagreements.
Opinions are formed in a process of open discussion and public debate, and where no opportunity for the forming of opinions exists, there may be moods -moods of the masses and moods of individuals, the latter no less fickle and unreliable than the former -but no opinion.
I think that you can disagree with people and debate over their positions with issues without engaging in the politics of personal destruction.
I don't feel that an atmosphere of debate and total disagreement and argument is such a bad thing. It makes for a vital and alive field.
It may happen sometimes that a long debate becomes the cause of a longer friendship. Commonly, those who dispute with one another at last agree.
You've got to work things out in the cloakroom, and when you've got them worked out, you can debate a little before you vote.
Reliable data on the outsourcing of American jobs is sorely missing from the debate on globalization.
I put forward formless and unresolved notions, as do those who publish doubtful questions to debate in the schools, not to establish the truth but to seek it.
I took the Canal Zone and let Congress debate; and while the debate goes on, the canal does also.
The most important event I covered was the Panama Canal debate, which dragged on for months.
I heard Dennis Kucinich say in a debate, 'When I'm president... and I just wanted to stop him and say, 'Dude.'
I want you to know that also I will not make age an issue of this campaign. I am not going to exploit, for political purposes, my opponent's youth and inexperience.
Books and harlots have their quarrels in public.
We are all strong-willed, forceful personalities and the President encourages vigorous debate.
Defining the terms of the debate generally dictates who's gonna' win it.
The national debate on Social Security has been cheapened by demagoguery on all sides.
In the midst of fighting there is no place for public debate.
Much of the debate over global warming is predicated on fear, rather than science.
Religion enabled society to organise itself to debate goodness, just as Greek drama had once done.
I take the debate on the method of promoting democracy seriously
What takes place in the Security Council more closely resembles a mugging than either a political debate or an effort at problem-solving.
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