Browsing Quotes With Tag: debate (3)
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Nobody has the right to not be offended. That right doesn’t exist in any declaration I have ever read.
If you are offended it is your problem, and frankly lots of things offend lots of people.
I can walk into a bookshop and point out a number of books that I find very unattractive in what they say. But it doesn’t occur to me to burn the bookshop down. If you don’t like a book, read another book. If you start reading a book and you decide you don’t like it, nobody is telling you to finish it.
To read a 600-page novel and then say that it has deeply offended you: well, you have done a lot of work to be offended.
Speaker: Salman RushdiePosted: 14 Feb 2015 at 2:40 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.
Speaker: Ralph Waldo EmersonPosted: 10 Nov 2014 at 10:58 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
It is very seldom that in debate any one of two evenly matched antagonists will succeed in actually convincing or converting the other. But it is equally seldom that, in a properly conducted argument, either antagonist will end up holding exactly the same position as that with which he began. Concessions, refinements, and adjustments will occur and each initial position will have undergone modification, even if it remains ostensibly the same.
Speaker: Christopher HitchensSource: Letters to a Young ContrarianPosted: 12 Jan 2014 at 3:40 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment!