Quotes About Disagreement

The eurosceptics, many of whom are my friends and are highly intelligent people with strong views, they are entirely respectable in every way, I just don't agree with them.

In a healthy, normal society, people can disagree with one another, even have diametrically opposing views, and this does not at all mean that they must hate one another. The Polish authorities, however, have made the division of Poles their primary task.

I can tell you that there are lots of ways for people to express their views and their disagreements. For me, the idea of doing it through an anonymous op-ed is about the furthest thing from my mind.

Whenever I or the Sena make our views known, we are dubbed anti-government.

The idea that all Israelis are villains is a childish idea. Israel is the most deeply divided, argumentative society. You'll never find two Israelis that agree with one another - it's hard to find even one who agrees with himself or herself.

It's one thing to say, 'I don't like what you said to me and I find it rude and offensive,' but the moment you threaten violence in return, you've taken it to another level, where you lose whatever credibility you had.

We have a toxic ideology, hopefully very small, within Islam; certainly most people, most Muslims, don't agree with this violent, jihadist approach.

I have tried to maintain civil relationships with everyone I meet - and, even if I violently disagree with them, try to be respectful.

It's always fascinating - and sometimes a little disquieting - when two first-rate critics violently disagree.

I've been working with Pat Robertson on Africa debt-relief, and we disagree on virtually everything except certain very specific, inalienable rights, and the truth is that morality and patriotism come in all shapes and sizes.

Although it may be true that the notion of teaching virtues such as honesty or integrity arouses little controversy, it is also true that vague consensus on the goodness of these virtues conceals a great deal of actual disagreement over their definitions.

Beneatha Younger:]... He said everybody ought to learn how to sit down and hate each other with good Chrisitan fellowship. [excerpt from Act II, Scene 3]

Polly's embarrassment revealed her regret that she should have given in to the age-old temptation of saying something disagreeable even to her oldest and most useful friend. But she had committed herself now. "I relate it," she replied in a bolder tone, "to my apprehension that you are using your perfectly proper wish to do great and noble things with Eric's money to disguise your equally natural desire to keep it out of the greedy hands of his family.

The amazing thing since so many variables enter into historical judgments, is not that historians disagree but that they agree as often as they do.

And so, as often happens when men of God disagree, a war erupted.

That what one person sees as a difference of opinion can be, to the other person, a sign of great disrespect.

Some said, John, print it, others said, Not so. Some said, It might do good, others said, No.

Terry Gilliam has spoken scathingly about my preference for physical comfort. I have come to the conclusion that this is very much his problem.

An Argument needs no reason; Nor any friendship.

If you pour oil and vinegar into the same vessel, you would call them not friends but opponents.

Christianity supplies a Hell for the people who disagree with you and a Heaven for your friends.

I rather argue with you than be right all by myself.

I had a lover's quarrel with the world.

I'm completely against [feminism]. I have no desire to give up my privileges.