Quotes About Disagreement

Just for the record, I personally do agree with some of the sentiments of Rabbi Meir Kahane. I think he was right about certain things, wrong about other things, but I have absolutely nothing, no association whatsoever with Kahane Chai leaders.

Of course, when people work together, there can be tension and disagreement. But policing informal behavior makes it hard for people to speak freely for fear they will say the wrong thing. Even self-aware individuals can doubt their judgement and start to rely on the diversity trainer to judge if something is offensive.

Every country has an aspect to it that rubs up people the wrong way.

For the longest time, Cena would be, and still is, filibustered by half the WWE universe.

I got fired from a movie that ended up being called 'Windows,' which Gordon Willis, the cinematographer, directed. I got fired because he refused to cast Meryl Streep, who at the time was at Yale. I told him I thought he was an idiot, and he fired me.

Our citizens never hesitate to take sides against one another, whether it's Democrats versus Republicans, Coke drinkers opposed to Pepsi enthusiasts or Yankee loyalists against Red Sox aficionados.

They think that, if we were just smart enough, we'd be able to understand their policies. And I so want to tell 'em, and I do tell 'em, Oh, we're plenty smart, oh yeah - we know what's goin' on. And we don't like what's goin' on. And we're not gonna let them tell us to sit down and shut up.

My wife and I tried two or three times in the last 40 years to have breakfast together, but it was so disagreeable we had to stop.

Our country, if you read the 'Federalist Papers,' is about disagreement. It's about pitting faction against faction, divided government, checks and balances. The hero in American political tradition is the man who stands up to the mob - not the mob itself.

The American tradition rests on pillars of self-questioning, self-actualization, and disagreement.

I stood respectfully as Ronald Reagan was sworn in to his second term though I disagreed with him on many issues. I stood as well for the inauguration of George W. Bush's second term though I thought his war in Iraq was a tragic mistake.

It used to be that we disagreed over the basic facts we were fighting over, and we had different opinions about them. Now I think we accept different sources of authority. ... And people can establish credibility on their own say-so as long as nobody follows the trail and calls them out on it.

Perhaps Real Madrid fans won't like me saying this but they say Real Madrid fans transmit enthusiasm but I don't think they do. That's not the reality.

under his breath with rancor and unconcealed disdain. "We hold these truths, that all men are created equal!" Momin spat on the ground and swore aloud in Bengali, forever proclaiming his disagreement. "Equal? No! Shob manush shristitay shoman? Ashombhob!" They were just infidels, deserving death and destruction. The West would never be equal to Allah. And they would never turn from their Christian false god; therefore, they must die! The Koran commanded it!

My method is to call in support of my statements the evidence of a single witness, the man I am arguing with, and to take his vote alone; the rest of the world are nothing to me; I am not talking to them.

So many writers fight an uphill battle trying to interest their readers in matters that have no inherent conflict.

you're not only wrong, you're wrong at the top of your voice

Ich stimme mit der Mathematik nicht überein. Ich meine, dass die Summe von Nullen eine gefährliche Zahl ist.

It is clear that the disagreement between the authorities completely paralyzed action. Not

Does truth prevail more if we are not on speaking terms with those whose view of truth differs from ours?

My parents argued more than I remembered, about money and all the little things that disguise the truth that you are still arguing about money.

Truth, as any dictionary will tell you, is a property of certain of our ideas. It means their agreement, as falsity means their disagreement, with reality.

Some people are antagonized by the truth.

There is no consensus, there is no homogeneity, there is no truth.