Discussion Quotes

In a society like this there is no negotiation, no discussion, except to tell you that power can crush you any time they want — not only you, your whole family and all people like you.

Businesses that run well are almost like marriages. Everything has to be up for discussion, or there will be real problems.

The most striking thing about Graham's discussion of how to allocate your assets between stocks and bonds is that he never mentions the word "age".

Teach not with your words, but with your actions; not with discussion but with demonstration. For it is what you do that your children will emulate, and how you are that they will become.

The belief that words have a meaning of their own account is a relic of primitive word magic, and it is still a part of the air we breathe in nearly every discussion.

I can't think of any time we had a discussion [with Dre] about the aftermath of what happened the night before. We just had too much going on.

No discussion between two persons can be of any use, until each knows clearly what it is that the other asserts.

If we had more time for discussion we should probably have made a great many more mistakes.

For students, the evolution-creation discussion can be a useful exercise, for it can help develop their critical thinking skills.

We've always had issues up for discussion at Catholic universities.

There can be no settlement of a great cause without discussion, and people will not discuss a cause until their attention is drawn to it.

The formation of character in young people is educationally a different task from and a prior task to, the discussion of the great, difficult ethical controversies of the day.

My memory is not even what most peoples is, much less what it oughta be for a discussion like this.

Discussion in class, which means letting twenty young blockheads and two cocky neurotics discuss something that neither their teacher nor they know.

The next four years, there won't be a week that goes by without a discussion of climate change. It's a naturally Conservative issue.

There is no discussion inside this boardroom to say we've got to get into this or that. We look at every growth opportunity on its merits.

If the president is going to use so much language of theology and the Bible, then let's use that language for a serious discussion about the war in Iraq. And that was never done.

The discussion of ideas as opposed to the American narcissistic obsession with what's going on with the self, that's the general thing people are talking about.

Don't criticize in the sack. Discuss constructively later.

You can't have a discussion about bullying unless you also have a discussion against our culture's obsession with masculinity.

The drama may be called that part of theatrical art which lends itself most readily to intellectual discussion: what is left is theater.

I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion.

Well, visual language is another boring discussion about the nature of film.

People are mostly hot to have a discussion when you're not.

There isn't much discussion of ruling class in America even in Boston, probably one of the most class-conscious cities in the country?

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

Our ideas need to become part of everyday discussion.

I have always endeavoured to listen to what each and every person in a discussion had to say before venturing my own opinion.

The actual sight of a first-class house that a Negro has built is ten times more potent than pages of discussion about a house that he ought to build, or perhaps could build.

Human and moral factors must always be considered. They must never be missing from policies and from public discussion.

A genuinely political society, in which discussion and debate are an essential technique, is a society full of risks.

This freedom of political discussion on the highest level is something which Western civilization has in common with that of classical antiquity, but with no other

Anyone who in discussion relies upon authority uses, not his understanding, but rather his memory.

I never discuss discussions.

Machiavelli's teaching would hardly have stood the test of Parliamentary government, for public discussion demands at least the profession of good faith.

If I felt we had alienated the Unionists, it would worry me because we've spent a great deal of time trying to open up discussion and dialogue with the Unionist Parties.

Films must all have the same structure. All of this to guarantee box office bonanza, which of course it never does, but that's another discussion entirely.

If you can't add to the discussion, don't subtract by talking.

I liked discussion and debate and thought that these skills fit well with law. I also had an interest in justice - and later learned that sometimes law and justice actually agree!

The theory of the free press is not that the truth will be presented completely or perfectly in any one instance, but that the truth will emerge from free discussion

I hate intellectual discussion. When I hear the words 'phenomenology' or 'structuralism', I reach for my buck knife.

The theoretical postulate of all diplomatic discussion between nations is the assumed willingness of every nation to do justice.

Force loses its legitimacy when it is used instead of free and open discussion.

...discussion is also a most excellent means to avoid -decision-

There is one class of men, whom it especially behoves to be tenacious of the right of free discussion. I mean the poor.

Reserved people often really need the frank discussion of their sentiments and griefs more than the expansive.

All discussion of the ultimate nature of things must necessarily be barren unless we have some extraneous standards against which to compare them.

Until we have a serious discussion, this problem [racism] will continue to occur.

We have to really be intentional right now about holding the media accountable, and taking back the discourse and terms of discussion. It's been hijacked.

I'm a follower of the Christ path, and that opens a huge discussion about what we even mean by words like "Christian."