Quotes About Disagreement

Going to school on a campus where the faculty overwhelmingly disagrees with you, and where the student body overwhelmingly disagrees with you, is challenging. If you go in without a firm foundation, it can undermine what you believe.

And I've always said, 'If two people think the same thing about everything, one of them isn't necessary.' We need to be able to understand that if we're going to make real progress.

There are people out there who disagree with me politically, and understand the limits of that disagreement. It doesn't mean we disagree as people on basic human needs.

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

Listening is a crucial aspect of democracy. Listening creates understanding, and understanding permits one of the most important things about every democracy, which is civilized disagreement.

Better to quarrel with a friend than to support enemies.

We can't live in fear. There are going to be people who will disagree with us, but it's important for us to stand up and say what's right and what's wrong.

It seems that Gerard Houllier did not appreciate my personality. It bothers him to have someone around who could stand up to him.

I'm offended by things and take pathetic little stands against them.

I am anti-Bush. A lot of what he stands for is the antithesis of what I stand for.

It would be better for me ... that multitudes of men should disagree with me rather than that I, being one, should be out of harmony with myself.

If you must hate a man for the many things about which you disagree, remember that you should also love him for the many things about which you agree.

Men are separated by so many petty things.

Quarrelling means trying to show that the other man is in the wrong. (And) There is no sense in trying to do that unless you and he had some sort of agreement as to what Righ and Wrong are.

In Washington, a man gets up to speak and doesn't say a thing, and the other men disagree with him for three hours.

Men are much more apt to agree in what they do than in what they think.

I never agree with Communists or any other kind of kept men.

No matter what side of the argument you are on, you always find people on your side that you wish were on the other.

Originality is a thing we constantly clamour for, and constantly quarrel with.

We don't necessarily always agree, but hopefully we make each other think, and that's what matters.

We all agree on the necessity of compromise. We just can't agree on when it's necessary to compromise.

When people agree with you, they'll just like it and keep it moving, but when people don't agree with you, that's when they come for your whole neck.

A fundamentalist can't bring himself or herself to negotiate with people who disagree with them because the negotiating process itself is an indication of implied equality.

When you start to work with someone, there's a negotiation that takes place involving what's going to happen when you have a difference of opinion. Most attempts at collaboration never survive the negotiation. Merely being agreeable is not enough.