Joyce Appleby Quotes

That's what we're missing. We're missing argument. We're missing debate. We're missing colloquy. We're missing all sorts of things. Instead, we're accepting.

I love argument, I love debate. I don't expect anyone just to sit there and agree with me, that's not their job.

If you don't like what someone has to say, argue with them.

And I think both the left and the right should celebrate people who have different opinions, and disagree with them, and argue with them, and differ with them, but don't just try to shut them up.

Discussion in America means dissent.

Truth springs from argument amongst friends.

The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

I don’t expect anyone to just sit there and agree with me, that’s not their job.

I embark upon discussion and argument with great ease and liberty

I love a spirited debate.

I want people to have conversations, to have controversy because it creates dialogue and builds bridges.

I don't feel that an atmosphere of debate and total disagreement and argument is such a bad thing. It makes for a vital and alive field.

Debate is so much better than denial.

Education is a kind of continuing dialogue, and a dialogue assumes different points of view.

It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it.

This country is about, in my judgment, aggressive, open debate. There is an old saying: When everyone is thinking the same thing, no one is thinking very much.

You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.

Dialogue means debates and everyone's point of view.

I love disagreements. I love the democratic process. If I'm in a room where everybody agrees, I start to nod off.

There's always merit to having a debate.

Freedom rings where opinions clash.

Argument is to me the air I breathe. Given any proposition, I cannot help believing the other side and defending it.

Writers should provoke disagreement.

I never learned from a man who agreed with me.

The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.