489 Quotes About Debate

She gasped. “You know what your problem is? You don’t take yourself… or anything… seriously enough!”She sat rigidly, her teeth and her buttocks clenched tight, nostrils flaring with each impassioned breath, tears burning the back of her eyelids. Was she really having this debate with Bruce Koczynski? A man she believed incapable of these intense opinions and complex ideas? She didn’t even know he had the vocabulary. It was utterly disorienting.

...Society needs to open its collective mind to all ideas and ideologies. It needs to give its people the chance to listen to the opinions of others, and then examine them critically instead of rejecting them prematurely. Such a creative dialogue based on positive critical thinking can enhance and develop ideas.

You win a debate with a better argument, not by force.

Free speech and debate are essential in our search for the truth.

An over-eating mouth tortures whole body and over-speaking mouth tortures everybody.

Question the opinions, don't question the facts.

Anything worth fighting for requires us to be willing to suffer to protect it.

Online debates become personal, emotional, and irresolvable almost as soon as they begin.

You don’t win a debate by suppressing discussion; you win it with a better argument.