Quotes About Disagreement

How shall the state be most vigorous? It shall be most vigorous when it is without conflict. How shall it be without conflict? When it is without disagreement. How shall disagreement be banished? By banishing the four causes of disagreement: lies, foolish talk, boastful talk, and talk which serves only to incite quarrels. How shall the four causes be banished? By speaking only Correct Thought.

How is it possible to have a civil war?

The status quo sucks.

The only difference between lilies and turds is whatever difference humans have agreed upon; and I don't always agree.

there are always people who can't forgive an able man for differing from them.

There are going to be times when we disagree with our leadership, but ultimately, we've got to work hard to pull our leadership to the right and to move a conservative agenda forward and unite as conservatives if we're going to get things done.

You need people who have their own views, whose views you respect, whom you can have a productive disagreement with, and work out ideas which you might not have come up with, or who improve on ideas you had.

There is a way to disagree with someone, but it doesn't have to be threatening.

Ah, but it's nice to be in the opposition, nice to be a bone in somebody's throat.

There is nothing wrong with having a difference of opinion, or throwing a little shade every now and then.

I like debate and argument, so I'm usually all right with disagreement, and I'm even all right if the critic doesn't come to a clear thumbs up or thumbs down. But I need the disagreement to have some kind of line I can follow on the map. I like following an interesting mind along it.

Thus, we see that one of the obvious origins of human disagreement lies in the use of noises for words.

I saw how important it is not to shun those with whom we disagree. As the theologian Reinhold Niebuhr once said, 'We must always seek the truth in our opponent's error and the error in our own truth.' This is just as important in our domestic politics as in our foreign dealings.

I have never written on any subject unless I believed that the authorities on it were hopelessly wrong.

I have found you an argument; but I am not obliged to find you an understanding.

Doing diversity work has taught me that agreeing to something is one of the best ways of stopping something from happening. Agreeing to something is an efficient technique for stopping something because organizations can avoid the costs of disagreement.

Luci (Shaw) captured it well when she wrote to Madeleine, in Friends for the Journey, "And you, on your part, can make radical theological statements with which I may disagree, but again, because of our bond of love we accept each other for who we are , flawed and failing, but always truth-seeking.

Always talk, talk, talk with you people," Pearl said. "You know, sometimes violence really is the answer.

If I had to resign every time the Cabinet disagrees with me, I could not last as a Defense Minister one week.

My father didn't think running was sensible. He told me running is just wasting time.

I spend a lot of time talking to people who disagree with me - I would go so far as to say that it's my favourite leisure activity.

Any time the country is split 50/50, the leader is wrong.

Any time you get two people in a room who disagree about anything, the time of day, there is a scene to be written. That's what I look for.

I believe that Virtual Reality will hit it big time. I know that some of my colleagues disagree, but I believe in it.