“The left is entering a new phase of ideological agitation no longer trying to win the debate but stopping debate altogether, banishing from public discourse any and all opposition. The proper word for that attitude is totalitarian. It declares certain controversies over and visits serious consequences from social ostracism to vocational defenestration upon those who refuse to be silenced.” TryingCertainWinningLeftSocialAttitudeSeriousConsequenceRefuseDebateOppositionPhasesDiscourseStoppingEnteringControversyIdeologicalAgitationPublic DiscourseOstracismSocial Ostracism Author:Charles Krauthammer
“The discourse on the Text should itself be nothing other than text, research, textual activity, since the Text is that social space which leaves no language safe, outside, nor any subject of the enunciation in position as judge, master, analyst, confessor, decoder. The theory of the Text can coincide only with a practice of writing.” ShouldWritingLanguageSocialSpacePracticeSubjectsPositionJudgingMastersTheoryActivitySafeResearchDiscourseAnalysts Author:Roland Barthes
“We atheists can argue that, with the modern revolution in attitudes toward homosexuals, we have become the only group that may not reveal itself in normal social discourse.” MaySocialAttitudeGroupsModernRevolutionNormalAtheistArguingDiscourseHomosexual Author:Philip Warren Anderson
“Since I became a knitting humor writer, I seem to be understood a little better - at least for the purposes of social discourse.” LittlesSeemsPurposeSocialUnderstoodDiscourseKnitting Author:Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
“The world of public discourse - political, social, diplomatic, commercial - has so corrupted language that we are rightly more suspicious of the meaning of words than we are convinced of their veracity. Language has been turned on its head.” WorldHas BeensPoliticalLanguageSocialConvincedDiscourseSuspiciousDiplomaticVeracityPublic DiscourseMeanings Of Words Book:Writing for Your Life: Discovering the Story of Your Life's Jou Source: Writing for Your Life: Discovering the Story of Your Life's Jou
“Defining and celebrating the New Father are by far the most popular ideas in our contemporary discourse on fatherhood. Father as close and nurturing, not distant and authoritarian. Fatherhood as more than bread winning. Fatherhood as new-and-improved masculinity. Fathers unafraid of feelings. Fathers without sexism. Fatherhood as fifty-fifty parenthood, undistorted by arbitrary gender divisions or stifling social roles.” IdeasFeelingsFatherWinningSocialRolesGenderBreadContemporaryCelebrateFiftyDivisionSexismParenthoodDiscourseFatherhoodMasculinityArbitraryDefiningNurturingUnafraidStiflingNew FatherSocial Roles Author:David Blankenhorn
“I think it's always good when you're able to, as an actor, allow your work to be some kind of a conduit for social discourse, and an examination of where we are, as a society.” ThinkingKindAbleActorsSocialDiscourseExamination Author:Zachary Quinto