"A flourishing, morally credible media is a vital component in the maintenance of genuinely public talk, argument about common good."

Argument, Media, Public, Talk

34

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"A flourishing, morally credible media is a vital component in the maintenance of genuinely public talk, argument about common good."

Exlpore more Argument quotes

"It's not about whether or not someone is a bigot, but whether or not the argument which that someone is arguing is worth being a bigot about."

Criss Jami, American Philosopher

Argument, Truth, Power, Regret, Wisdom

"In Vegas, I got into a long argument with the man at the roulette wheel over what I considered to be an odd number."

Steven Wright, American Comedian

Argument, Man

"Bigotry and intolerance, silenced by argument, endeavors to silence by persecution, in old days by fire and sword, in modern days by the tongue."

Charles Simmons, American Author

Argument, Bigotry, Fire, Intolerance

"When a thing is said to be not worth refuting you may be sure that either it is flagrantly stupid - in which case all comment is superfluous - or it is something formidable, the very crux of the problem."

Percy Bysshe Shelley, English Poet

Argument, May, Worth

"We go round and round trying to convince one another that our opinion makes more sense. And the only winner is time for making us look like fools by wasting it."

S. A. Tawks, British Author

Argument, Debate, Opinion, Time, Wisdom

"To make the argument that the media has a left- or right-wing, or a liberal or a conservative bias, is like asking if the problem with Al-Qaeda is do they use too much oil in their hummus."

Al Franken, American Comedian

Argument, Conservative, Liberal, Media

"My argument has always been that this is not an anti-Bush film, it's a pro-democracy film. And if Bush comes out on the wrong side of democracy, that's his problem."

John Sayles, American Director

Argument, Democracy, Film, Wrong

"The conservative argument is that the economy is like the weather, that it just operates automatically."

Sidney Blumenthal, American Journalist

Argument, Conservative, Economy, Weather

"A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments."

Georg C. Lichtenberg, German Physicist

Argument, Arguments, Soldiers

"Euclid taught me that without assumptions there is no proof. Therefore, in any argument, examine the assumptions."

E. T. Bell, Scottish Mathematician

Argument, Proof

Explore more quotes by Rowan D. Williams

"To conclude: good journalism is one of the models of good conversation and communication in the wider social context."

Communication

"The answer was that in Burundi, having a clean bill of health has taken on a very particular meaning: unless and until you have paid for your hospital treatment, you simply can't leave, you are in effect a captive."

Health

"The Church exists to connect people at the level of their hunger for a new world."

People

"Incidentally, one of the most worrying problems in the impact of Western modernity on traditional culture is that it quite rapidly communicates its own indifference or anxiety or even hostility about age and ageing."

Age

"Economists are coming to acknowledge that measures of national wealth and poverty in terms strictly of average income tell you little that is significant of the health or viability of a society."

Health

"In loving his own productive, generative, generous love, God loves all those ways in which that love can be realised in creation."

Love

"Well, today, the diocese is more than ever a microcosm."

Today

"Actual human discourse happens within a number of contexts, not in some sort of unified public forum."

Public

"The world's creation has a beginning from the world's point of view, not from God's."

God

"So every creative act strives to attain an absolute status; it longs to create a world of beauty to triumph over chaos and convert it to order."

Beauty