Quotes About Disagreement

It would be hard enough to win the Empire to Christianity without Christians arguing among themselves about what they were supposed to believe.

The believer will fight another believer over a shade of difference; the doubter fights only with himself.

Hannah set down her paperwork. "That's complete bullshit.

If we have no commonly agreed criterion for measuring length, we will never agree about how much land is yours, and how much is mine, or how to cut lengths of wood when we build a house. There would be chaos.

It is a no that means maybe, and the more passionate the no, the more definite the maybe.

Russia and China completely disagree with the international order that was established after World War II, and they're trying to take it apart right before our eyes.

I can open up any can of worms and get people upset.

Partisanship has gotten worse and worse.

We do our worst when we're surrounded by a lot of people who agree with us.

The worst thing you can do if you want to start a fight is to use derogatory terminology.

Well, I think if somebody says something that I don't agree with, I don't think that I should bite my tongue. I don't think anyone should bite their tongue. And if I have said over and over I don't like something and it's constantly being done or I'm being disrespected, then you've got hell to pay.

I realize there are a lot of folks in my political party who disagree with me on this, but I think the Patriot Act is an important law enforcement tool, and it makes our country safer.

Reasonable, even intelligent people can, and frequently do, disagree on how best to achieve peace in the Middle East, but, peace must be the goal of our foreign policy tools, whether they be by the stick or by the carrot.

Honest discussions - even and perhaps especially on topics about which we disagree - can help us resist hypocrisy and arrogance. They can also help us live up to the basic ideals, such as liberty and justice for all, on which our country was founded.

I've never done any cross-party stuff. I've no interest in sitting down discussing pensions or whatever with Tories.

I don't agree with the Tories on most things.

The situation around Terri Schiavo was a deeply held conflict over what to do if someone isn't going to return to consciousness or competence. Who will decide? Even there, where we had settled legal rules, we still had disagreement. We're torn about these things.

You get fifteen democrats in a room, and you get twenty opinions.

Some people do have faces like that. Though I've been told mine is one, and I disagree. I have never wanted to punch myself in the

Like all good lawyers, Mort pretends he's agreeing with her, while he's actually disagreeing. It's patronizing, but it works. "In general, Your Honor, that's true. On the other hand, when a video has been tampered with as this one has, or there is a substantial likelihood that it could be taken out of context, it could be unfairly damaging evidence.

I love how your Christianity only comes into play when you don't have a rational argument for something you don't like.

Mace watched his beautiful sister. She took after their mother. He took after his father. And they got along about as well as that pair did.

Europeans have quarrelled since the beginning of time.

Over time even two armed blind men in a room can do enormous damage to each other, not to speak of the room.