#polemic

Even a polemic has some justification if one considers that my own first poetic experiments began during a dictatorship and mark the origin of the Hermetic movement. ↗

— Salvatore Quasimodo

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When reason and unreason come into contact, an electrical shock occurs. This is called polemics. ↗

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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In early church polemics, Jews are deemed no longer worthy of their own Scriptures because they have failed to accept Christ as the Messiah. ↗

— Jack Schwartz

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Any work of architecture that has with it some discussion, some polemic, I think is good. It shows that people are interested, people are involved. ↗

— Richard Meier

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An important work of architecture will create polemics. ↗

— Richard Meier

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Well, I am not 100 percent sure of the definition of polemic, but it wasn't meant to convince anybody of anything. ↗

— Art Spiegelman

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It is better to discuss things, to argue and engage in polemics than make perfidious plans of mutual destruction. ↗

— Mikhail Gorbachev

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Genuine polemics approach a book as lovingly as a cannibal spices a baby. ↗

— Walter Benjamin

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