Discourse Quotes

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

“Sort by controversial.”

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

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

“We can disagree without being disagreeable.”

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

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

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

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

“I like the noise of democracy.”

“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.”

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

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

“Fact construction is a central feature of discourse.”

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

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

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

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

“Attributions of stake and interest are potent rhetorical devices for discounting or undermining a person's account.”