#discourse

Every educational system is a political means of maintaining or of modifying the appropriation of discourse, with the knowledge and the powers it carries with it. ↗

— Micel Foucault "The Discourse on Language"

#education #foucault #knowledge #power #education

Open debate and full discourse on the topic of torture is a double-edged sword. ↗

— Charles D. Ellison

#discourse #double-edged #double-edged sword #full #open

Informed opponents of Obama's healthcare initiative have expressed dismay at the low level of discourse. ↗

— Carl Hiaasen

#dismay #expressed #healthcare #informed #initiative

Change of weather is the discourse of fools. ↗

— Thomas Fuller

#discourse #fools #weather

Scientific knowledge is a kind of discourse. ↗

— Jean-Francois Lyotard

#kind #knowledge #scientific #scientific knowledge

Language is not merely a set of unrelated sounds, clauses, rules, and meanings; it is a total coherent system of these integrating with each other, and with behavior, context, universe of discourse, and observer perspective. ↗

— Kenneth L. Pike

#clauses #coherent #context #discourse #each

Fruitful discourse in science or theology requires us to believe that within the contexts of normal discourse there are some true statements. ↗

— Kenneth L. Pike

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The poet's spoken discourse often depends on a mystique, on the spiritual freedom that finds itself enslaved on earth. ↗

— Salvatore Quasimodo

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When something really bad is going on in a culture, the average guy doesn't see it. He can't. He's average and is surrounded by and immersed in the cant and discourse of the status quo. ↗

— George Saunders

#average guy #bad #cant #culture #discourse

A moral lesson is better expressed in short sayings than in long discourse. ↗

— Johann Georg Zimmermann

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