Public Discourse Quotes

• ¿Se ha dado cuenta alguna vez de que la única metáfora que tenemos en nuestro discurso público para resolver los problemas es declararle la guerra? Tenemos la guerra contra el crimen, la guerra contra el cáncer, la guerra contra las drogas.
  cáncer, la guerra contra las drogas. ¿Pero te has dado cuenta de que no tenemos guerra contra los sin techo? ¿Saben por qué? Porque no hay dinero en ese problema. No se gana dinero con los sin techo. Si puedes encontrar una solución para los sin techo en la que las corporaciones y los políticos puedan ganar unos cuantos millones de dólares cada uno, ¡verás cómo las calles de América empiezan a despejarse bastante rápido!

  George Carlin

  War, Cancer, America

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• I hold to the idea that civility, understood as the willingness to engage in public discourse, is the first virtue of citizens.

  Mark Kingwell

  Ideas, Citizens, Firsts

  "The World We Want: Virtue, Vice, and the Good Citizen". Book by Mark Kingwell, 2000.

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• El discurso público requiere argumentar a favor de un punto de vista, no discutir, como en una pelea.

  Deborah Tannen

  Fighting, Views, Argument

  Deborah Tannen (2012). “The Argument Culture: Moving from Debate to Dialogue”, p.4, Ballantine Books

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• El discurso humano real se produce en diversos contextos, no en una especie de foro público unificado.

  Rowan Williams

  Números, Foros, Discurso

  "Esta tribu mediática desfigura la vida pública", por Rowan Williams, www.theguardian.com. 16 de junio de 2005.

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• Que su discurso con los hombres de negocios sea breve y completo.

  George Washington

  Attitude, Business, 4th Of July

  George Washington (1871). “Words of Washington”, p.8

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• I think it is very difficult today to have a reasoned public discourse on any controversial subject. Certainly, election years present a complicating factor.

  John Poindexter

  Thinking, Years, Today

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• Los sermones siguen siendo una de las últimas formas de discurso público en las que está culturalmente prohibido replicar.

  Harvey Cox

  Dura, Forma, Prohibido

  Harvey Cox (2013). "La ciudad secular: Secularization and Urbanization in Theological Perspective", p.261, Princeton University Press.

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• At least in the West, politicians, corporations and media moguls can no longer take for granted their power to control the public discourse - and have it go unchallenged.

  David Puttnam

  Media, Moguls, Corporations

  "Post-Leveson, the press must become as accountable as the rest of us" by David Puttnam, www.theguardian.com. September 11, 2012.

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• Los ateos tienen tanto derecho al discurso público como cualquier ... persona de cualquier fe religiosa en este país.

  Al Gore

  País, Religioso, Ateo

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• Secularists are often wrongly accused of trying to purge religious ideals from public discourse. We simply want to deny them public sponsorship.

  Wendy Kaminer

  Religious, Atheism, Trying

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

  Bob Etheridge

  Discurso

  "Bob Etheridge Attacks Student: North Carolina Congressman Gets Rough With Interviewer" by Nick Wing, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 14, 2010.

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• Por el bien del discurso público, por las exigencias del libre mercado y por el valor que concedemos a la defensa ciudadana, Rush Limbaugh debe irse.

  Christine Pelosi

  Citizens, Demand, Sake

  "Long Time Coming: Why Rush Limbaugh Must Go" por Christine Pelosi, www.huffingtonpost.com. 6 de marzo de 2012.

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• As the growing emphasis on feelings crowds out reason, facts will play a smaller role in public discourse.

  Paul Craig Roberts

  Play, Feelings, Liberty

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• I am comfortable with my level of public discourse.

  Neil Armstrong

  Levels, Discourse, Comfortable

  "Armstrong's Code" by Kathy Sawyer in Washington Post Magazine (p. 10), www.washingtonpost.com. July 11, 1999.

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• Racism is a moral catastrophe, most graphically seen in the prison industrial complex and targeted police surveillance in black and brown ghettos rendered invisible in public discourse.

  Cornel West

  Ghetto, Racism, Police

  "Dr. King Weeps From His Grave". www.nytimes.com. August 25, 2011.

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• It may be that there is so much ambiguity and ideology attached to the term 'terrorism' that it is best to avoid its use altogether, as it is likely to be twisted in public discourse to demonise the enemies of the established order, while exempting state violence from legal and moral scrutiny.

  Richard A. Falk

  Order, Enemy, Violence

  Fuente: www.counterpunch.org

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• Es nuestra tendencia a abordar cada problema como si fuera una lucha entre dos bandos. Lo vemos en los titulares que siempre utilizan metáforas bélicas. Es una atmósfera general de animosidad y contención que se ha apoderado de nuestro discurso público.

  Deborah Tannen

  Guerra, Tomada, Lucha

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• One of the greatest challenges facing civilization in the twenty-first century is for human beings to learn to speak about their deepest personal concerns-about ethics, spiritual experience, and the inevitability of human suffering-in ways that are not flagrantly irrational. We desperately need a public discourse that encourages critical thinking and intellectual honesty. Nothing stands in the way of this project more that the respect we accord religious faith.

  Sam Harris

  Spiritual, Religious, Honesty

  Sam Harris (2006). "Carta a una nación cristiana", Alfred a Knopf Incorporated

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• La izquierda está entrando en una nueva fase de agitación ideológica en la que ya no intenta ganar el debate, sino detenerlo por completo, desterrando del discurso público toda oposición. La palabra adecuada para esta actitud es totalitaria. Declara terminadas ciertas controversias e impone graves consecuencias, desde el ostracismo social hasta la defenestración profesional, a quienes se niegan a ser silenciados.

  Charles Krauthammer

  Attitude, Winning, Trying

  "Charles Krauthammer: Thought police on patrol". www.washingtonpost.com. April 10, 2014.

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• Charles Bernstein's pairs of jingles of 'public discourse' are 'simultaneous double narrative / the space between's the other narrative/as if they're opposite.' In the space between, outside representation but in the 'presence' of it, we are provoked to laugh. Bernstein alters our language to open a double range that's public and mind at once and inseparable, that is 'Poetry is patterned thought in search of unpatterned mind.' Girly Man is doing it.

  Leslie Scalapino

  Girly, Men, Opposites

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• The failures of the press have contributed immensely to the emergence of a talk-show nation, in which public discourse is reduced to ranting and raving and posturing. We now have a mainstream press whose news agenda is increasingly influenced by this netherworld.

  Carl Bernstein

  News, Agendas, Mainstream

  "The idiot culture". Carl Bernstein, The New Republic, June 8, 1992.

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• You learn in America to speak two ways. You learn in public discourse not to be very specific about your religious life. Or, if we talk about it, we'll find a secular way of doing it that will not be offensive to people of non-belief. So, that you go through life with these alternate voices.

  Richard Rodríguez

  Religious, Two, Voice

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• Proponents of so-called pluralism feel compelled to ban religious considerations from public discourse because they know, instinctively if not intellectually, that their faith is in direct conflict with the God of the Bible, and that in the end the two positions are irreconcilable.

  Benjamin Hart

  Christian, Religious, Two

  Benjamin Hart (1988). "Fe y libertad: Las raíces cristianas de la libertad americana"

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• The world of public discourse - political, social, diplomatic, commercial - has so corrupted language that we are rightly more suspicious of the meaning of words than we are convinced of their veracity. Language has been turned on its head.

  Deena Metzger

  Political, World, Language

  Deena Metzger (2009). “Writing for Your Life: Discovering the Story of Your Life's Jou”, p.7, Harper Collins

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• Jay-Z's a guy that wears the Che Guevara t-shirt and he doesn't realize Che Guevara was a racist. Che Guevara was a murderer and a killer. So look, he's an entertainer, obviously. He's not in the middle of any public discourse here. But I think it's important to point out when people take stances like this that are absurd.

  Marco Rubio

  Pensar, Gente, Guy

  Fuente: alter.newsweek.msnbc.com

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