Discourse Quotes

“Sort by controversial.”

“We can disagree without being disagreeable.”

“We can't be afraid to have a debate.”

“If we don’t have a debate, something is wrong.”

“The politician should be a good listener and should be able to change his or her mind.”

“Discursive psychology starts from the assumption that psychology is constructed, managed, and displayed in discourse.”

“I like the noise of democracy.”

“There is no power relation without the correlative constitution of a field of knowledge, nor any knowledge that does not presuppose and constitute at the same time power relations.”

“We have to be able to talk about the complex issues of race and gender and class and sexuality.”

“The remedy for speech that is false is speech that is true.”

“Fact construction is a central feature of discourse.”

“A great university is a conversation. It's an argument.”

“It must provide a forum for public criticism and compromise.”

“If we don't have a vigorous debate, we're not going to get good policy.”

“We've become a nation of yellers. And the yellers are drowning out the thinkers.”

“Our aim is to move from treating participants' discourse as a transparent medium...to a concern with discourse as a topic in its own right.”

“The question is not, 'Do you have a right to your own opinion?' The question is, 'Is your opinion informed?'”

“Discourse is not life; its time is not your time; in it, you will not be reconciled to death.”

“The problem with America is that we've forgotten how to argue.”

“My view is that you never argue with a crazy person. And you don't give a platform to a crazy person.”