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Quotes About Disagreement

The challenge with Donald Trump is that he'll deny things he said the day before or even in the same interview. And then sometimes when you try and talk about a fact that he misstated or something that he said out loud that he now disagrees with himself on, it's very frustrating.
~ John Dickerson
I actually find it a lot easier to interview people I don't agree with because I'm far more curious about how they've arrived at that place.
~ Hailey Gates
The greatest evidence of authentic good will is the way we treat people with whom we passionately disagree.
~ Father Jonathan Morris
That's so unfair!" Carson protested.
~ Faye Kellerman
Humans are a cooperative, if argumentative, race.
~ Felix Dennis
En lo único que a primera vista todos estamos de acuerdo, es que no estamos de acuerdo con todos.
~ Fernando Savater
Th' dimmycratic party ain't on speakin' terms with itsilf.
~ Finley Peter Dunne
The little pedlar, it seemed, fancied that he had the tools to fix the wheel. The footmen were glad to hear this, and agreed with him that he should be paid handsomely for such a service. There was some disagreement as to what constituted 'handsome', however. The discussion of the attractiveness of various sums looked set to continue for some time.
~ Frances Hardinge
You, your grandmother, the chairman----YOU'RE ALL ABUNCH OF FRIGGIN' IDIOTS!!!" ~Haruhi
~ Bisco Hatori
Haruhi: This is a sibling squabble, not a fight to the death! You're both wrong, and acting like idiots only proves it!
~ Bisco Hatori
People always say things happen for a reason, until they disagree with the reason it happened.
~ black lewis iii
report adds fuel to the ongoing disagreement between those who believe branding is a fundamental component of human existence -- like eating, breathing, sex and shoplifting -- and those who believe it's just a load of marketing bullshit.
~ Bob Hoffman
A quarrel is like buttermilk, the more you stir it, the more sour it grows.
~ Bolivian Proverb
People rid the room of argument until they have no one left — except people who agree with them. It is understandable. But I like a good argument.
~ Bono
Congress is so strange. A man gets up to speak and says nothing. Nobody listens — and then everybody disagrees.
~ Boris Marshalov
Congress is so strange. A man gets up to speak and says nothing. Nobody listens -- and then everybody disagrees.
~ Boris Marshalov
I hate everything you say, but not enough to kill you for it.
~ Boris Pasternak
human rights" cannot serve as a stable, shared basis for morality in a society riven by fundamental disagreement about what "human" means, as is apparent from the abortion debate.
~ Brad S. Gregory
stopped her by raising his hand. "I don't want to argue with you, Sara. I know you feel differently. Suffice to say that this is how I see it.
~ Harlan Coben
Mr. Clinton," he had said, when Henry ventured to inquire about a particularly ambiguous examination, "you may write until doomsday for all I care, but if your answers do not coincide with my answers they are wrong. Wrong, sir.
~ Harper Lee
They had never been able to sustain fifteen minutes' conversation with one another without advancing irreconcilable points of view, invigorating in friendships, but in close blood relations producing only uneasy cordiality.
~ Harper Lee
The behavioral scientist Karen Stenner has written very eloquently about people who have what she calls an authoritarian predisposition, a personality type that is bothered by complexity and is especially enraged by disagreement. Trump has made himself into the spokesperson for precisely these American authoritarians.
~ Anne Applebaum
The minority is sometimes right; the majority always wrong.
~ George Bernard Shaw
Any time scientists disagree, it's because we have insufficient data. Then we can agree on what kind of data to get; we get the data; and the data solves the problem. Either I'm right, or you're right, or we're both wrong. And we move on. That kind of conflict resolution does not exist in politics or religion.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson