Public Discourse Quotes - Page 2

• Si los conservadores llegan a controlar la Casa Blanca y las dos Cámaras del Congreso, habrá muy pocos cambios en Hollywood, los noticiarios nocturnos de las cadenas, las universidades, las burocracias eclesiásticas, el New York Times o el Washington Post. Las instituciones que son abrumadoramente liberales de izquierda seguirán desinformando al público y distorsionando el discurso público.

  Robert Bork

  Christian, Religious, New York

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• 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 influenced by antislavery sentiment.

  Eric Foner

  Malo, Hombres, Gente

  "Eric Foner on the Perennial Relevance of Abraham Lincoln". Entrevista con Aaron Leonard, historynewsnetwork.org. 4 de octubre de 2010.

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• Ese es otro tema del libro [Sueños de mi padre]. ¿Cómo ejercer más empatía en nuestro discurso público? ¿Cómo conseguimos que el negro vea a través de los ojos del blanco? ¿O que el ciudadano vea a través de los ojos del inmigrante? ¿O que los heterosexuales vean a través de los ojos de los homosexuales? Esa ha sido siempre una lucha en nuestra política.

  Barack Obama

  Dream, Father, Book

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• Permítanme presentarme. Soy un traidor y un idiota. Además, mi madre debería haberme abortado y abandonado en un contenedor de basura, pero como no lo hizo, debería "suicidarme".

  Kathleen Parker

  Mother, Should Have, League

  Interview with Howard Kurtz, transcripts.cnn.com. October 5, 2008.

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• Our culture's tolerance wears thin when religion intrudes on the public discourse... Our schools, courtrooms, and libraries set the tone for the entire society. The message they currently communicate is harsh and unambiguous: religion is offensive and should be kept out of public view.

  Ralph E. Reed, Jr.

  Cristiano, Religioso, Escuela

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• I set my life since then attempting to figure out how to do that, basically how to have a sort of public discourse in which anything and everything are open to conversation and in which the thought experiment is a means by which to posit all manner of different realities, potential futures.

  Jonathon Keats

  Mean, Reality, Anything And Everything

  Fuente: therumpus.net

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• Me han dicho que en algunos de mis discursos públicos mi reverencia por el intelecto me ha hecho injustamente frío a las relaciones personales. Pero ahora casi me encojo al recordar tales palabras despectivas. Porque las personas son el mundo del amor, y el filósofo más frío no puede contar la deuda de la joven alma que vaga aquí en la naturaleza con el poder del amor, sin sentirse tentado a no decir, como traición a la naturaleza, algo despectivo para los instintos sociales.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Amor, Recuerdo, Alma

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). "Obras completas Delphi de Ralph Waldo Emerson (Ilustradas)", p.1329, Delphi Classics.

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• The good news is you can get a lot of information off the Internet for free and in a hurry. But I think the breaking up of the media, which is otherwise kind of healthy, has contributed to less actual reporting and a louder, more contentious, more divisive public discourse, highlighting conflict, sometimes falsely.

  William J. Clinton

  Thinking, Media, Healthy

  "Bill Clinton: Alguien con quien todos podemos estar de acuerdo". Entrevista con Charles P. Pierce y Mark Warren, www.esquire.com. 18 de enero de 2012.

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• I find this in all these places I've been travelling - from India to China, to Japan and Europe and to Brazil - there is a frustration with the terms of public discourse, with a kind of absence of discussion of questions of justice and ethics and of values.

  Michael Sandel

  Frustration, Japan, Europe

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• The language we share is at the core of our identity as citizens, and our ticket to full participation in American political life. We can speak any language we want at the dinner table, but English is the language of public discourse, or the marketplace and of the voting booth.

  S. I. Hayakawa

  Political, Voting, Identity

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• It is becoming plain that our liberal regime of equality and personal freedom depends, more than most theorists of liberalism have been willing to admit, on the existence and support of certain social assumptions and practices: the belief that each and every human being possesses great and inherent value, the willingness to respect the rights of others even at the cost of some disadvantages to one's self, the ability to defer some immediate benefits for the sake of long-range goals, and a regard for reason-giving and civility in public discourse.

  Mary Ann Glendon

  Rights, Self, Practice

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• I'd like to see much more understanding of emotional issues around hurt, abandonment, disappointment, longing, failure and shame, where they stem from and how they drive people and policies brought into public discourse.

  Susie Orbach

  Hurt, Disappointment, Emotional

  "Britain's intellectuals: leading thinkers have their say" by Alain de Botton, AC Grayling, Susie Orbach, Paul Gilroy, Will Self, Mary Beard, Brian Cox, Lionel Shriver, James Lovelock and Lisa Jardine, www.theguardian.com. May 7, 2011.

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• Proposition 19 already is a winner no matter what happens on election day. The mere fact of its being on the ballot has elevated and legitimized public discourse about marijuana and marijuana policy in ways I could not have imagined a year ago.

  George Soros

  Marijuana, Years, Matter

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• The public discourse on global warming has little in common with the standards of scientific discourse. Rather, it is part of political discourse where comments are made to secure the political base and frighten the opposition rather than to illuminate issues. In political discourse, information is to be 'spun' to reinforce pre-existing beliefs, and to discourage opposition.

  Richard Lindzen

  Issues, Political, Littles

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• La necesidad de civismo en la sociedad nunca ha sido tan importante. Los cimientos de la amabilidad y el civismo empiezan en nuestros hogares. No es de extrañar que nuestro discurso público haya decaído en la misma medida que la desintegración de la familia. La familia es la base del amor y del mantenimiento de la espiritualidad. La familia promueve una atmósfera en la que puede florecer la observancia religiosa. De hecho, hay belleza por todas partes cuando hay amor en casa.

  Quentin L. Cook

  Religious, Kindness, Home

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• Para que los blogueros mejoren nuestro discurso público -ayudando a personas ocupadas y normalmente desinformadas a dar sentido al mundo- es necesario utilizar algún tipo de norma con la que juzgar su fiabilidad. Tal vez la respuesta (estrictamente consultiva) sea un organismo de sus pares. Tal vez no.

  Eric Alterman

  Gente, Juzgar, Pares

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• If there is an ‘overabundance’ of an idea in the absence of direct governmental action - which there well might be when compared with some ideal state of public debate - then action disfavoring that idea might ‘un-skew,’ rather than skew, public discourse.

  Elena Kagan

  Ideas, Might, Action

  "Kagan Argued for Government 'Redistribution of Speech'" by Matt Cover, www.cnsnews.com. May 11, 2010.

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• Los portavoces venden a las mujeres la Doncella de Hierro y la bautizan con el nombre de "Salud": si el discurso público se preocupara realmente por la salud de las mujeres, se volvería airadamente contra este aspecto del mito de la belleza.

  Naomi Wolf

  Autoestima, Nombres, Hierro

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• But once you publish a book, doesn’t it by definition become the realm of public discourse? Otherwise, wouldn’t we just write books and print them out ourselves, and give them to specific people we felt comfortable giving them to–like gifts? Isn’t publishing sort of a social contract?

  Jonathan Evison

  Libro, Escritura, Personas

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• Este fue un buen ejemplo de la vigilancia fascista del discurso público en este país por parte de liberales nominales que se han vuelto tan irreflexivamente apegados al dogma como cualquier miembro subalterno de la Inquisición española.

  Camille Paglia

  País, Ejemplo, Política

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• Public discourse has been polluted now for decades by corporate-funded disinformation - not just with climate change but with a host of health, environmental and societal threats. The implications for the planet are grim.

  Michael E. Mann

  Environmental, Climate, Host

  "Death threats, intimidation and abuse: climate change scientist Michael E. Mann counts the cost of honesty" by Robin McKie, www.theguardian.com. March 03, 2012.

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