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Quotes About Disagreement

Level noise is when judges show different levels of severity. Pattern noise is when they disagree with one another on which defendants deserve more severe or more lenient treatment. And part of pattern noise is occasion noise—when judges disagree with themselves.
~ Daniel Kahneman
It is more useful to pay attention to people who disagree with you than to pay attention to those who agree.
~ Daniel Kahneman
Since when has your team ever functioned smoothly? You're Israelis. You fight with one another constantly. - Sarah Bancroft
~ Daniel Silva
The first is "divide and conquer." Here related themes are split apart from each other and isolated so one is early and another is late. The second principle is that "difference equals either disagreement or a distinct theology," so we can again lift out and separate what goes back to Jesus and what the church came to say later.
~ Darrell L. Bock
It is not our job to defeat those we disagree with. Instead, we are to speak the truth in love with respect, honor, and compassion for the listener
~ Dave Burchett
I have no time to justify you, fool, youre blind, step aside from me
~ Dave Matthews Band
It is therefore no exaggeration to observe that Social Justice Theorists have created a new religion, a tradition of faith that is actively hostile to reason, falsification, and disagreement of any kind
~ James Lindsay
Interestingly, one of the most important times to listen well is when you disagree with the message, especially as it relates to how we affect others.
~ James M. Kouzes
In fact, respect, compassion, and sensitivity are undervalued gifts for dealing with conflict and disagreement in general, gifts that can be shared with the wider culture.
~ James Martin
El error fundamental en el argumento de las diferencias culturales es que trata de sacar una conclusión sustantiva acerca de un tema del mero hecho de que hay un desacuerdo acerca de él.
~ James Rachels
Folks never understand the folks they hate.
~ James Russell Lowell
It wasn't so much that my mother always had to have her own way; it was more that if you disagreed with her, the rhetorical power this unleashed would shock you into seeing things from her point of view. The minute she sensed resistance, all of her intellect would be summoned into an irresistible arrowhead of purpose, and the most sensible strategic approach was therefore never to disagree with her too forcefully.
~ James Scudamore
We must be ready to employ trickery, deceit, law-breaking, withholding and concealing truth …We can and must write in a language which sows among the masses hate, revulsion, and scorn toward those who disagree with us.
~ James Simpson
Diversity and independence are important because the best collective decisions are the product of disagreement and contest, not consensus or compromise.
~ James Surowiecki
We had trench warfare in America way before World War I. Most people don't know that.
~ Donna Tartt
If he is mad, I can agree with him.' 'He isn't mad,' said Jerott.
~ Dorothy Dunnett
My husband would do anything for me ...' It's degrading. No human being ought to have such power over another. It's a very real power, Harriet. Then ... we won't use it. If we disagree, we'll fight it out like gentlemen. We won't stand for matrimonial blackmail.
~ Dorothy L. Sayers
She suffered much from the adjacent presence of her daughter-in-law, whose misfortune it was to become disagreeable when she was unhappy--perhaps the heaviest curse that can be laid on man, who is born to sorrow.
~ Dorothy L. Sayers
Controversy is bad for the spirit, however enlivening to the wits.
~ Dorothy L. Sayers
Then making the noise usually written "Tut-tut," he
~ Dorothy L. Sayers
For years I have been crouching in corners hissing small and ladylike anathema of Theodore Dreiser.
~ Dorothy Parker
Rob McKenna was a miserable bastard and he knew it because he'd had a lot of people point it out to him over the years and he saw no reason to disagree with them except the obvious one which was that he liked disagreeing with people, particularly people he disliked, which included, at the last count, everybody.
~ Douglas Adams
Rob McKenna was a miserable bastard and he knew it because he'd had a lot of people point it out to him over the years and he saw no reason to disagree with them except the obvious one which was that he liked disagreeing with people, particularly people he disliked, which included, at the last count, everybody.
~ Douglas Adams
So long as you can keep disagreeing with each other violently enough and slagging each other off in the popular press, and so long as you have clever agents, you can keep yourselves on the gravy train for life. How does that sound?
~ Douglas Adams