Terry Richardson

Over the course of my career, I have come to accept that some of my more provocative work courts controversy, and as an artist, I value the discourse that arises from this. I can only hope for this discourse to be informed by fact, so that whether you love my work or hate it, you give it, and me, the benefit of the truth.

American Photographer

Gina Miller

What has struck me about the political world, as opposed to the business world, is that rational discourse has become all but impossible. All too often, arguments are conducted not on the basis of facts but on the basis of emotion - and, honestly, it is no fun being abused in the pages of tabloid newspapers or online.

Guyanese Activist

Fred Tomaselli

The small amount of people that control the discourse around painting - I thought that the whole museum world was just a bunch of phonies, and I didn't really want to have anything to do with it. I guess I did installations, in a funny way, because they couldn't be commodified.

American Artist

Jackie Speier

It is important for us to be able to meet and greet the people that we serve. And if we start having police presence everywhere we go, it's going to create a chilling effect on discourse, and it creates an incredible assault on the democratic process.

American Politician

Sushma Swaraj

India believes that the world is a family, and the best means of resolution is shared discourse. A family is shaped by love and is not transactional; a family is nurtured by consideration, not greed; a family believes in harmony not jealousy.

Indian Politician

Kapil Sibal

Universities are not places where police can come and arrest people. Let the children have a discourse as they want to. They will learn as they move on in life. But to target individuals and institutions is dangerous.

Nina Tassler

I feel it's our responsibility to keep our ear tuned to public discourse. There's a lot of noise out there, and our responsibility is to pick up on the themes and issues that work their way through all of society.

American Businesswoman

Jimmy Wales

Almost anything is better than three network TV outlets completely controlling the national discourse with their nightly broadcasts. We've moved a long way from that, and that's important.

American Businessman

Jim Lehrer

As I say, I'm a discourse advocate. What form it comes is less important to me than the fact that there is discourse.

American Journalist

Joe Bob Briggs

Discourse is fleeting, but junk mail is forever.

American Critic

Use 'discourse' when referring to an extended speech which one person dominates.

Lengthy Monologue

'Discourse' implies a deep exploration of a subject, not just a casual chat.

Subject Depth

'Discourse' as a conversation involves active participation from all parties.

Mutual Exchange

Discourse' often entails a more serious, structured form of communication than casual talk.

Formal Dialogue

Use 'discourse' to refer to collective conversations reflecting a group's principles.

Shared Beliefs

'Discourse' can indicate a professional or scholarly discussion within a specific field.

Academic Context

When 'discourse' is a verb, it involves explaining a topic in depth, usually formally.

Detailed Explanation

'Discourse' is not used for everyday conversation; it's more serious and thorough.

Not Casual Talk

 because that's one of the key characteristics of power and privilege, the ability to go unexamined, lacking introspection, in fact being rendered invisible, in large measure, in the discourse about issues that are primarily about us. And this is amazing how this works in domestic and sexual violence, how men have been largely erased from so much of the conversation

Jackson Katz: Violence...

 to say it's possible for them to have beliefs and desires that reliably lead to needless human suffering just admitting this will transform our discourse about morality okay we live in it in a in a world in which the boundaries between nations mean less and less and they will one day mean nothing

Science can answer moral...

 But what really interests me, especially nowadays and because of what's happening politically around the world, is the language that's used, the narrative, the discourse, the images, the actual words. So we often are presented with the kind of words like that the private sector

Mariana Mazzucato:...

 to have beliefs and desires that reliably lead to needless human suffering. Just admitting this will transform our discourse about morality. We live in a world in which the boundaries between nations mean less and less, and they will one day mean nothing.

 so I am continuing to raise this alarm, because even if one day we do have strong rules in place, it will take all of us to fix this. When I started shifting my focus from threats abroad to the breakdown in civil discourse at home,

Dear Facebook, this is...

 I realized that now I needed to learn. I needed to listen. This has been at the front of my mind lately, because I can't help but see in our public discourse so many of the same destructive impulses that ruled my former church.

I grew up in the...

 they are an extremist and when they act on that there are a violent extremists so first and foremost basic psychological discourse on nature versus nurture and this is how we grow up observing and absorbing from our parents

An inside look at...

 That's it. Just certain. The more afraid we are, the more vulnerable we are, the more afraid we are. This is what politics looks like today. There's no discourse anymore. There's no conversation. There's just blame.

The power of vulnerabilit...

 our public discourse during this time has become hollowed out, empty of larger moral meaning. For fear of disagreement, we shrink from these questions. But once we see that markets change the character of goods,

Michael Sandel: Why we...

 see how important it is to have full representation to show that Americans need to include first Americans as part of the national discourse I think it would mean that we're taking another