Quotes About Disagreement

Democrats never agree on anything, that's why they're Democrats. If they agreed with each other, they would be Republicans.

An association of men who will not quarrel with one another is a thing which has never yet existed, from the greatest confederacy of nations down to a town meeting or a vestry.

The duty of an Opposition is to oppose.

Personally, I'd rather have pins stuck in my eyes than endure a conversation with John Kerry, but I'd love to hang with Bush.

We live in an age where in politics, people can't disagree with each other without good faith being questioned, there is always an ulterior motive - in it for the money, advance a career.

In so much of politics you're not allowed to disagree with what's been agreed.

There is a tendency to think that if we engage too directly with moral questions in politics, that's a recipe for disagreement, and for that matter, a recipe for intolerance and coercion.

I hate the Republicans and everything they stand for...

Congress is so strange. A man gets up to speak and says nothing. Nobody listens then everybody disagrees.

It seems to be almost a law of human nature that it is easier for people to agree on a negative program - on the hatred of an enemy, on the envy of those better off - than on any positive task.

What all agree upon is probably right; what no two agree in most probably is wrong.

If you want to make enemies try to change something.

With due respect, Truck-off.

Democrats never agree on anything, that's why they're Democrats. If they agreed with each other, they would be Republicans.

I don't like politics.

You know what the Englishman's idea of compromise is? He says, Some people say there is a God. Some people say there is no God. The truth probably lies somewhere between these two statements.

There's always something to say on both sides, even when one's a wrong side. That's what makes it all so tiresome-makes you wish you were dead. Take the right side and stick to that.

We are not satisfied to be right, unless we can prove others to be quite wrong.

To be a real philosopher all that is necessary is to hate some one else's type of thinking.

Truth, as any dictionary will tell you, is a property of certain of our ideas. It means their "agreement," as falsity means their disagreement, with "reality."

Markov's not important,' she said. 'I'm not important. You're not important. Winning the war, that's the only important thing.' 'No,' I said, 'I disagree. Markov was important. So am I and so are you. That's why we have to win.

The fault of opposition", he remarked, "is a determination to make differences where few exist and those trifling.

Have you ever noticed that? We base our assessment of the intelligence of others almost entirely on how closely their thinking matches our own. I'm sure that there are people out there who violently disagree with me on most things, and I'm broad-minded enough to conceded that they might possibly not be completely idiots, but I much prefer the company of people who agree with me. You might want to think about that.

If 'national character' can really be said to exist, it can only be asa. result of such schismogenetic processes: English people trying to become as little as possible like French, French people as little like Germans, and so on. if nothing else, they will all definitely exaggerate their differences in arguing with one another.