Discussion Quotes

• Power is action; the electoral principle is discussion. No political action is possible when discussion is permanently established.

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • Power
  • Discussion
  • Established

• Upon the whole I doubt whether the Benefits of opposition to the Constitution opposition to the Constitution will not ultimately be productive of more good than evil; it has called forth, in its defence, abilities which would not perhaps have been otherwise exerted that have thrown a new light upon the science of government, It has given the rights of man a full and fair discussion, and explained them in so clear and forcible a manner, as cannot fail to make a lasting impression.

  

  George Washington
  • Men
  • Evil
  • Doubt

• Any work of architecture that has with it some discussion, some polemic, I think is good. It shows that people are interested, people are involved.

  

  Richard Meier
  • Involved
  • Discussion
  • Polemics

• Change requires decision making, and decision making requires action. Most churches don't make turnarounds because they never get to the action. Discussion only begets more discussion. Together, and led by the pastor, the church must decide on a course of action.

  

  Ed Stetzer
  • Change
  • Action
  • Decision

• It is a mistake to look to the Bible to close a discussion; the Bible seeks to open one.

  

  William Sloane Coffin
  • Mistake
  • Looks
  • Bible

• A strong-willed child - a strong-willed child, more than anyone else, needs to learn to use emotion and discussion to resolve issues. That's the last child in the whole world you want to hit.

  

  Sean Hannity
  • World
  • Children
  • Emotion

• I don't know how much more discussion is necessary for the network to decide what to do about it. I think our actions speak for themselves for now and we'll just see how it plays out.

  

  Jonathan Klein
  • Speak
  • Actions
  • Discussion

• Rare indeed is the nature that does not become a little more intense when its own affairs come under discussion.

  

  Alice Duer Miller
  • Nature
  • Discussion
  • Affairs

• You know, we live in a country where if you want to go bomb somebody, there's remarkably little discussion about how much it might cost, even though the costs almost inevitably end up being orders of magnitude larger than anybody projected at the outcome.

  

  Andrew Bacevich
  • People
  • Country
  • Suffering

• While self-interest arising from the enjoyment of meat eating is obviously one reason for its entrenchment, and inertia another, a process of language usage engulfs discussions about meat by constructing the discourse in such a way that these issues need never be addressed. Language distances us from the reality of meat eating, thus reinforcing the symbolic meaning of meat eating, a symbolic meaning that is intrinsically patriarchal and male-oriented. Meat becomes a symbol for what is not seen but is always there--patriarchal control of animals and of language.

  

  Carol J. Adams
  • Reality
  • Reason
  • Language

• I just think the whole discussion of class is wrong. It's not what we do here in America. I don't think there's anything called 'middle class values' that are different from the values of other people in this country.

  

  Jon Kyl
  • Country
  • Values
  • Class

• One of the most serious problems that our country has inherited an unwillingness to talk to anyone who disagrees with us or who won't accept, before a discussion, all the premises that we demand.

  

  Jimmy Carter
  • Country
  • Problems
  • Discussion

• There have been no discussions to my knowledge about it.

  

  Eric Gill
  • Knowledge
  • Discussion

• It was a little more raw than they had been used to hearing. From our discussion, I gathered there was a feeling the players had become a little complacent. He brought back to them they've got to play hard. He brought a lot of competitiveness.

  

  Bob Golic
  • Players
  • Discussion
  • Competitiveness

• Whenever there is discussion, I make it clear that I do not want any grey zones, just black and white.

  

  Andreas Nikolaus "Niki" Lauda
  • White
  • Discussion
  • Grey Zones

• I don't think that the leadership of Montgomery was prepared to capitalize, let's put it, on the projection that had come out of the Montgomery situation. Certainly, they had not reached the point of developing an organizational format for the expansion of it. So discussions emanated, to a large extent, from up this way.

  

  Ella Baker
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Leadership

• The people currently in charge have forgotten the first principle of an open society, namely that we may be wrong and that there has to be free discussion. That it's possible to be opposed to the policies without being unpatriotic.

  

  George Soros
  • Society
  • Principle
  • Unpatriotic

• [My mother] was taking me to Shakespeare In The Park when I was like 6. There was just a lot of theater-going and a lot of movie-going and a lot of discussion about it afterwards, dissecting it and stuff.

  

  Cynthia Nixon
  • Movie
  • Mother
  • Stuff

• Open discussion of many major public questions has for some time now been taboo. We can't open our mouths without being denounced as racists, misogynists, supremacists, imperialists or fascists. As for the media, they stand ready to trash anyone so designated.

  

  Saul Bellow
  • Political
  • Racist
  • Taboo

• We should take stock on Iran and discuss how we might best pursue the nuclear file over the coming weeks, ... This might also be an opportunity to discuss what Iran's new government and its breaking of the Paris Agreement means for EU-Iran relations over the coming months.

  

  Jack Straw
  • Opportunity
  • Paris
  • Stock

• I am attempting to move away from the exclusionary practices of feminist theory, particularly anti-pornography rhetoric, in order to amplify the discussion about the complexity of pleasure for women.

  

  Barbara DeGenevieve
  • Pleasure
  • Move
  • Rhetoric

• One of course is to insure greater supply of energy for California's needs now and in the future in the sense that we are in discussions with representatives of Oregon and Washington, where they do have a surplus supply of energy available, and at what we hope will be a very reasonable price.

  

  George Deukmejian
  • Energy
  • Needs
  • California

• I don't want anyone to appreciate the light or the palette of tones. I want my pictures to inform, to provoke discussion - and to raise money.

  

  Sebastiao Salgado
  • Light
  • Appreciate
  • Provoking

• Golf is a game, and talk and discussion is all to the interests of the game. Anything that keeps the game alive and prevents us being bored with it is an advantage. Anything that makes us think about it, talk about it, and dream about it is all to the good and prevents the game becoming dead.

  

  Alastair Mackenzie
  • Golf
  • Talk
  • Interests

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