Quotes About Civil Discourse

#1. Our religion was the religion of a Book. Man must be educated on Earth for Heaven. John Quincy Adams

Paul C. Nagel

#2. To trust people is a luxury in which only the wealthy can indulge; the poor cannot afford it.

E. M. Forster

#3. Management means, in the last analysis, the substitution of thought for brawn and muscle, of knowledge for folkways and superstition, and of cooperation for force. It means the substitution of responsibility for obedience to rank, and of authority of performance for the authority of rank.

Peter Drucker

#4. What a shame. One loses so much when one can't forgive.

Karleen Koen

#5. I have and I will always work to promote a civil public discourse.

Bob Etheridge

#6. To a police officer, a sawed off shotgun is the ultimate nightmare. You can blow someone in half!

Steven Seagal

#7. Writers often torture themselves trying to get the words right. Sometimes you must lower your expectations and just finish it.

Don Roff

#8. In terms of our elected officials, I think we need to ask...: How far should we go with our need to know before we completely veer off into the personal and the private and leave behind any chance of having a legitimate debate or discussion or discourse about the issues at hand?

John Lewis

#9. We must protect the very things that make America so special - most certainly including our civil liberties. But we cannot do so without strong national security and a thoughtful and informed discourse.

Mike Pompeo

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

Jim Lehrer

#11. Integrity indicates wholeness or oneness. If we have integrity, we are sincere, truthful, fair, and honest.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

#12. [W]e would do better to treat terrorists as common criminals, people who have broken the laws recognized by all civil societies. To treat them as soldiers is to increase their power, respectability, and commitment.

Nel Noddings

#13. You know what else that settles then tonight. This hue and cry and controversy that has been spawned by the devil to try and bring dissention within the body of Christ that we are gods. I am a little god.

Paul Crouch

#14. Fear is killing us, but true love can survive. If we cooperate, we can beat doubt. But first, rebuild trust. Take responsibility. Happiness is still free, though not always apparent when it's right in front of us. So keep calm, it's gonna get better.

Patrick Stump

#15. Sometimes people can learn a lot about each other just by sitting in silence.

Louis Sachar

#16. A truly great university is a nucleus of artistic expression. It fosters creative, critical thought, and serves as a platform for civil discourse.

Gordon Gee

#17. The grace to read the Holy Bible is the strength of being.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#18. That is the ego which rises and sinks periodically. But you exist always. That which lies beyond the ego is consciousness - the Self.

Ramana Maharshi

#19. To the new president, Abraham Lincoln: Sir, if on attaining the presidency you are as happy as I am upon leaving it, then, sir, you are a happy man indeed.

James Buchanan

#20. I think you need the failures to get the success. You learn more from that.

Kevin Spacey

#21. Be who you seem to be.

Maggie Osborne

#22. We need to in this country begin again to raise civil discourse to another level. I mean, we shout and scream and yell and get very little accomplished, but you can disagree very much with the next guy and still be friends and acquaintances.

Leah Ward Sears

#23. How do we nurture both families and communities, promote a civil discourse, and approach problems with solutions and hope instead of fear and blame?

Jim Wallis

#24. I find the ass in compound with the major part of your syllables.

William Shakespeare