Quotes of: Discourse Keyword

There cannot be greater rudeness than to interrupt another in the current of his discourse.

John Locke

Freedom is secured not by the fulfilling of men's desires, but by the removal of desire.

The Discourses

Men are driven by two principal impulses, either by love or by fear.

The Discourses

The poet's spoken discourse often depends on a mystique, on the spiritual freedom that finds itself enslaved on earth.

Salvatore Quasimodo

I'm in the civil discourse business. I think it takes all kinds. And more power to everybody.

Jim Lehrer

I did learn that some of the things that are great for locker rooms are inappropriate for political discourse. That's a wisdom I've garnered.

George Allen

It is the province of poetry to be more realistic and present than the artificial narratives of an outer discourse, and not afraid of the truthful difficulty of the average human life.

David Whyte

Voting, we might even say, is the next to last refuge of the politically impotent. The last refuge is, of course, giving your opinion to a pollster, who will get a version of it through a desiccated question, and then will submerge it in a Niagara of...

Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business

It is not enough to have a good mind. The main thing is to use it well.

Discourse on Method

Fortify yourself with contentment for this is an impregnable fortress.

Enchiridion and Selections from the Discourses

Without needing to be theoretically instructed, consciousness quickly realizes that it is the site of variously contending discourses.

Seamus Heaney

The discourse of the West and the attitudes of its leaders are important because they influence public debate in Turkey.

Safak Pavey

We've taken on the major health problems of the poorest - tuberculosis, maternal mortality, AIDS, malaria - in four countries. We've scored some victories in the sense that we've cured or treated thousands and changed the discourse about what is poss...

Paul Farmer

Discourse on virtue and they pass by in droves. Whistle and dance and shimmy, and you've got an audience!

Diogenes Laërtius

The artificial separation of politics and culture is nowhere more pronounced than in the discourse of foreign policy and international affairs.

Ellen Willis

The first sentiment of man was that of his existence, his first care that of preserving it.

Discourse on the Origin of Inequality

God save me from fools with a little philosophy - no one is more difficult to reach.

The Discourses

The beautiful is powerless but always exceeds what frames it, and what always frames it is discourse.

Beauty and the Contemporary Sublime

Political discourse has become so rotten that it's no longer possible to tell the stench of one presidential candidate from the stink of another.

P. J. O'Rourke

A moral lesson is better expressed in short sayings than in long discourse.

Johann Georg Zimmermann

At least in the West, politicians, corporations and media moguls can no longer take for granted their power to control the public discourse - and have it go unchallenged.

David Puttnam