Quotes About Debaters

#1. True words are not fancy. Fancy words are not true. The good do not debate. Debaters are not good.

Lao-Tzu

#2. Some writers are so enthralled by ideas (one thinks of Doris Lessing) that their characters become debaters, and their fables approach allegory.

Edmund White

#3. The difference between a debater and a polemicist is that unlike debaters, who try to seek a common ground, a polemicist intends to establish the truth of a controversial point of view while refuting the opposing point of view - there is no room for compromise.

Henrik O. Lunde

#4. It is beginning to be doubtful whether Parliament and Congress sit in Westminster and Washington, or in the editorial rooms of the leading journals,
so thoroughly is everything debated before the authorized and responsible debaters get on their legs.

James Russell Lowell

#5. The power of real debate is in the language and intellectual honesty of the debaters, alongside the engagement of spectators.

Ruzwana Bashir

#6. The greatest injustice I had ever seen humans perpetrate against themselves was unwholesome as I was yet to come to terms with the pitiable situation where well-meaning people argued about the lives of soccer players who did not even know that they, the debaters, existed.

S.A. David

#7. If all men saw the fair and wise the same men would not have debaters' double strife.

Euripides

#8. Hell is just stupidity
and blundering
and crassness;
a gross assault
on the sensitivities
of the least

Dennis Brutus

#9. The only book that is worth writing is the one we don't have the courage or strength to write. The book that hurts us (we who are writing), that makes us tremble, redden, bleed

Helene Cixous

#10. Fit the parts together, one into the other, and build your figure like a carpenter builds a house. Everything must be constructed, composed of parts that make a whole ...

Henri Matisse

#11. We put great confidence in the Holy Rosary for the healing of evils which afflict our times.

Pope Pius X

#12. To win true peace, a man needs to feel himself directed, pardoned, and sustained by a supreme power, to feel himself in the right road, at the point where God would have him be - in order with God and the universe. This faith gives strength and calm.

Henri Frederic Amiel

#13. Jack Benny really liked my book. I know because he called me up from the library and told me.

Bob Hope

#14. So might we ourselves look down into some rock-pool where lowly creatures repeat with naive zest dramas learned by their ancestors aeons ago.

Olaf Stapledon

#15. It is seriously time for a miracle.

Farrah Fawcett

#16. The stretch of Bruce Highway between Gin Gin and Miriam Vale was long and lonesome.

S.A. Tawks

#17. It is the sheer ugliness and banality of everyday life which turns my blood to ice and makes me cringe in terror.

Jean Lorrain

#18. In the extreme, fads can arise, spread through, and then disappear from a community in a fraction of a human generation.

Hal Whitehead

#19. I recognize the widest possible difference-so wide, that to receive the one as good, pure, and holy, is of necessity to reject the other as bad, corrupt, and wicked. To be the friend of one, is of necessity to be the enemy of the other.

Frederick Douglass

#20. Starry, starry night, flaming flowers that brightly blaze, swirling clouds in violet haze reflect Vincent's eyes of china blue.

Don McLean