Quotes for All
Love is not a word that describes my feelings; it is not a technique by which I fulfill my needs; it is not an ideal, abstract and pure, on which I meditate or discourse. It is acting in correspondence with or in response to God in relation to persons. Eugene H. Peterson
In Israel, there is this reduction of the political discourse to something that is very limited. It’s as if you have that pitch that only dogs can hear. Sometimes I feel I speak at such a pitch that very few people around me communicate with what I’m saying. Etgar Keret
I actually felt diminished by watching [Donald Trump’s]. If this is what discourse has become in America, who even wants to know about it? It’s just too demoralizing and unsettling. Errol Morris
If we ban whatever offends any group in our diverse society, we will soon have no art, no culture, no humor, no satire. Satire is by its nature offensive. So is much art and political discourse. The value of these expressions far outweighs their risk. Erica Jong
In a democratic society, as Max Weber said, what is possible is only possible because some people have demanded the impossible. The abolitionists helped to create a public discourse in which men like Lincoln become possible. That doesn’t mean Lincoln is an abolitionist. It means there is a public opinion out there which is being … Read more
Some of the parables that Matthew records and that Jesus delivered as part of his Olivet Discourse-such as the ten virgins and their lamps or the servants and the talents they were given-are some of the best known of Jesus’ teachings. Reading them in the context of his prophecies about the end of the world, … Read more
If bloggers are to improve our public discourse – helping busy and usually uninformed people make sense of the world – it is necessary to use some sort of standard with which to judge their reliability. Perhaps the answer (strictly advisory) is a body of their peers. Perhaps not. Eric Alterman
President Obama promised to usher in a new era of civility in our political discourse. We should make sure that, quote, talk to each other in ways that heal, not in ways that wound, close quote. Eric Bolling
President Obama, right after the Gabby Gifford shooting said we need to usher in a new era of civil discourse in politics. But not heeding his own advice. Eric Bolling
It was the first and most striking characteristic of Socrates never to become heated in discourse, never to utter an injurious or insulting word — on the contrary, he persistently bore insult from others and thus put an end to the fray. Epictetus