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Debatable Quotes (page 6)

The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum.... Noam Chomsky
Ronald Reagan quote: "If you're explaining, you're losing." Ronald Reagen to Fritz..."
If you're explaining, you're losing." Ronald Reagen to Fritz Mondale during presidential debate: 1984 Ronald Reagan
Rabindranath Tagore quote: "Let me light my lamp", says the star, "And never debate if it..."
Let me light my lamp", says the star, "And never debate if it will help to remove the darkness Rabindranath Tagore
We have, on the whole, more liberty and less equality than Russia has. Russia has less liberty and more equality. Whether democracy should be defined primarily in terms of liberty or equality is a source of unending debate. Reinhold Niebuhr
[Sam is kneeling beside Frodo's lifeless body in Shelob's lair, debating his next move] Now he tried to find strength to tear himself away and go on a lonely journey -- for vengeance. If once he could go, his anger would bear him down all the roads of the world, pursuing, until he had him at last: Gollum. Then Gollum would die in a corner. J. R. R. Tolkien
The world today is ruled by harassed politicians absorbed in getting into office or turning out the other man so that not much room is left for debating the great issues on their merits Winston Churchill
J. R. R. Tolkien quote: "Where there are so many, all speech becomes a debate without..."
Where there are so many, all speech becomes a debate without end. But two together may perhaps find wisdom. J. R. R. Tolkien
Bob Woodward quote: "Obama said, 'I welcome debate among my team, but I won't..."
...Obama said, 'I welcome debate among my team, but I won't tolerate division. Bob Woodward
If Mr. Blood had condescended to debate the matter with these ladies, he might have urged that having had his fill of wandering and adventuring, he was now embarked upon the career for which he had been originally intended and for which his studies had equipped him; that he was a man of medicine and not of war; a healer, not a slayer. Rafael Sabatini
Most moral philosophers consciously or unconsciously assume the essential correctness of our cultural sexual code? family, monogamy, continence, the postulate of privacy, ... restriction of intercourse to the marriage bed, etcetera. Having stipulated our cultural code as a whole, they fiddle with details - even such piffle as solemnly discussing whether or not the female breast is an "obscene" sight! But mostly they debate how the human animal can be induced or forced to obey this code,... Robert A. Heinlein
The reason the founders chafed at the idea of an American standing army and vested the power of war making in the cumbersome legislature was not to disadvantage us against future enemies, but to disincline us toward war as a general matter... With citizen-soldiers, with the certainty of a vigorous political debate over the use of a military subject to politicians' control, the idea was for us to feel it- uncomfortably- every second we were at war. But after a generation or two of shedding... Rachel Maddow
Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers who can cut through the argument debate and doubt to offer a solution everybody can understand. Colin Powell
A culture's ability to understand the world and itself is critical to its survival. But today we are led into the arena of public debate by seers whose main gift is their ability to compel people to continue to watch them. George Saunders
You have to remember, rights don't come in groups we shouldn't have 'gay rights'; rights come as individuals, and we wouldn't have this major debate going on. It would be behavior that would count, not what person belongs to what group. Ron Paul
The 'pre-emption' versus 'prevention' debate may be a distinction without much difference. The important thing is to have it understood that the United States is absolutely serious. The jihadists have in the past bragged that America is too feeble and corrupt to fight. A lot is involved in disproving that delusion on their part. Christopher Hitchens

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