Quotes About Disagreement

Apparently being right frustrates people who are wrong.

If you resist reading what you disagree with, how will you ever acquire deeper insights into what you believe? The things most worth reading are precisely those that challenge our convictions.

The host of Protestant differences only rarely erupted into full-scale doctrinal battle, though Protestant violence against Anabaptists was a sad reality throughout the sixteenth century, and intra-Protestant disagreement leading to violence was known in several places throughout Europe.

dissensus politics

After all, the Beatitudes don't tend to look a lot like modern Christianity. We choose a political team. We select a denominational preference. We hitch our cart to a branch of philosophy. Anyone that disagrees is quickly and succinctly judged, and simultaneously disregarded as worthless. Big problem with that approach. We are supposed to be loving those who don't agree with us to Jesus—and you can't love those whom you deem worthless.

It were not best that we should all think alike; it is difference of opinion that makes horse-races.

It is not best that we should all think alike it is a difference of opinion that makes horse races.

Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.

To disagree with three-fourths of the British public is one of the first requisites of sanity.

Parenthood is the passing of a baton, followed by a lifelong disagreement as to who dropped it.

If one official signals Falcons ball and Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson signals Seahawks ball, is it a jump ball?

Come, agree, the law's costly.

However, if you do start crying in an argument and someone asks why, you can always say, "I'm just crying because of how wrong you are.

F*ck you guys, I'm goin' home.

People do not always argue because they misunderstand one another, they argue because they hold different goals.

Usually if nobody hates a piece, nobody loves it, either; and a magazine which sets itself the goal of provoking thought is not doing its job if everybody agrees with what it does.

The problem we've got now in Washington is that the goals are completely the opposite from each other.

I got in an argument with a girlfriend inside of a tent. That's a bad place for an argument, because I tried to walk out, and had to slam the flap.

If you can't answer a man's arguments, all is not lost; you can still call him vile names.

To submit to anyone less than Christ is difficult in a marriage. Yet it is Christ who commands women to be submissive to their sinful, fallible husbands. In this sense Christ is the silent partner of the marriage. It is hard for a wife to submit when she disagrees with her husband. But when she knows her submission is an act of obedience to Christ and honors Christ, it is much less difficult.

To fight is a radical instinct; if men have nothing else to fight over they will fight over words, fancies, or women, or they will fight because they dislike each other's looks, or because they have met walking in opposite directions.

Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree

A friend is someone who doesn't like the same people you do.

A mere friend will agree with you, but a real friend will argue.