If you held to principle so passionately, so inflexibly, indifferent in the particulars of circumstance – the full range of what human beings, with all their flaws and foibles, might endure or create – if...

Politics is good; when it works properly, disagreements get solved without people beating each other up. But when a regime knows its days are numbered, there’s always the chance it may use its position to...

If I tell you that I would be disobeying the god and on that account it is impossible for me to keep quiet, you won’t be persuaded by me, taking it that I am ionizing....

I think in our desire to create a better America,we have to have civilized debate in this country and not just yelling.

Diversity and independence are important because the best collective decisions are the product of disagreement and contest, not consensus or compromise.

So I’m going to reveal something to you. As there is a public debate, I had one too with my assistant coaches and we have decided, for the first time, that we will not reveal...

We’re at a critical time in the debate and we want the American public to receive a positive message. We don’t want to do anything to create a backlash.

You can’t compare any book on earth to that which God has created. It has visionless humans as flat characters and those with vision as round characters. It has lucifer as the antagonist and himself...

Michael’s position is in the minority. The consensus is the scientific debate is all but over.

We think that the debate set for March 24 would not benefit the new election so the government decided not to join the debate.

There has been great debate and interest around the NAB Cup with these rules and there will be plenty of debate for weeks to come and we look forward to it.

As for the majority, it is not so much race as it is political affiliation that really divides it today. What was once an issue of physical difference is now one of intellectual difference. Men...

Opinions are formed in a process of open discussion and public debate, and where no opportunity for the forming of opinions exists, there may be moods /moods of the masses and moods of individuals, the...

The free economic zone itself is still an ongoing debate in the National Assembly; we don’t know what the FEZ actually is.

This vacillation between assertion and denial in discussions about organised abuse can be understood as functional, in that it serves to contain the traumatic kernel at the heart of allegations of organised abuse. In his...

If you’ve got the truth you can demonstrate it. Talking doesn’t prove it.

So why don’t they face us… examine our evidence, debate, talk… act like real historians instead of thought-police? Why shut us out of the media, pass laws against our speaking, persecute us, sue us, and...

Rather than the debate being about how immigration impacts neighborhoods, schools and hospitals, maybe you’ll now see discussion about how it impacts the business sector.

There’s going to be a great national debate on this subject.

When making a point, there are 2 types of people who may disagree with you: those who can support their reasons, and the childish ones who are too worried about being told what to do.

These are very important findings that come at a critical moment in the immigration debate. What the study indicates is that if we view the contribution of immigrants to the total economy there may be...

The beliefs which we have the most warrant for have no safeguard, but a standing invitation to the whole world to prove them unfounded.

We have to consider the historical context of this debate,

With a study like this coming from someone like Topol, the debate becomes more apparent to physicians and consumers.

And is it not the artists that make art? Well, no: criticism is now the substance of art making to such a degree that many of today’s public artists do away with the product as...

In any open society, there is going to be a continuum between freedom and security, and I think any debate about how to strike that balance is a good debate, … I do believe the...

Republican leaders snuck this into a complicated budget bill in the dead of night with no public debate.

In a battle of believability, the winner is the one with the best body language, not the clearest logic.

We would like to take cars out of the environmental debate.

I’ll stop eating steak when you stop killing spiders.” Absurdity: comparing cows to spiders. Arachnids are pure evil. They’re like a cigarette manufacturer or a terrorist. They’re organized religion on eight legs.

It is important to open up the dialogue and debate this issue given the pronouncement by the Supreme Court justices coupled with his (Lee’s) desire to ensure that the death penalty remains a policy in...

Opponents on both sides want the debate to be about science, … mainly because of the apparent legitimacy science carries as compared to debating actual values, which these debates are about anyway.

Recently, the government has agreed to join a debate for which the University Presidents Council of Thailand (UPCT) has offered to act as a mediator.

I think that it will be another factor in the debate ? that wolves can kill people.

Whenever we want to combat our enemies, first and foremost we must start by understanding them rather than exaggerating their motives.

Lincoln had entirely outgrown juvenile delight in religious argument. Talking with God seemed to the mature Lincoln more important than talking about Him.

The real debate around this witch hunt isnt between us and the Vatican, its between the Vatican and the truth,

Allegations of multi-perpetrator and multi-victim sexual abuse emerged to public awareness in the early 1980s contemporaneously with the denials of the accused and their supporters. Multi-perpetrator sexual offences are typically more sadistic than solo offences...

[On CBS’s] Face the Nation, … instead of a debate between the drab and the dreary.

When describing the University of Virginia: Here, We are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead, nor to tolerate any error so long as reason is left free to combat it.

n order to capture someone’s attention, you must allow them to have the mental and emotional space to let you in.

About once or twice every month I engage in public debates with those whose pressing need it is to woo and to win the approval of supernatural beings. Very often, when I give my view...

The vanity of intelligence is that the intelligent man is often more committed to ‘one-upping’ his opponent than being truthful. When the idea of intelligence, rather than intelligence itself, becomes a staple, there is no...

What we’re looking at in Seattle is a debate over the rules of the game and how the environment and labor will be treated — whether they will be debated elsewhere or whether they will...

Deliberation and debate is the way you stir the soul of our democracy.

To leave a man’s ego bigger, retweet him. To leave his faculty of reasoning better, challenge his tweet.

SOAR changed the debate. Developers will still develop. But we said they should develop within these lines. And that is what has happened. When I drive through Ventura County, it is still awfully pretty.

I had 15 months there to debate it and back forth. At times, I was certain I was going to play and there were other times I was certain I wasn’t going to play, …...

I thought it was a good, informative, positive debate,

We can debate anything they want, even terrorists who misrepresent our faith, but the Prophet Muhammad is off limits. The attack on the prophet is an attack on us.