Quotes About Disagreement

Extremists think communication means agreeing with them.

What's all this love of arguing? No one ever convinces anyone else.

Family pulls together, mija, even though we sometimes disagree.

If you're yelling and calling names, your kid thinks, 'If I get in a disagreement, the way to resolve it is to speak more forcefully, more loudly, and to say harsher things to get my way.

It was impossible to quarrel with words, whose tremulous inequality showed indisposition so plainly.

To be sure—our discordancies must always arise from my being in the wrong.

There is no disputing about taste.

I cannot quite agree with you there.

I am sorry you think so; but if that be the case, there can at least be no want of subject. We may compare our different opinions.

Family squabbling is the greatest evil of all

a whole day's tête-à-tête between two women can never end without a quarrel.

The two or so times we actually fought she smashed a plate and stormed out into the night. I have always disliked an argument. When I tried to be the voice of reason, when I pointed out that it might be wiser to continue what I mildly referred to as, "the discussion," she flew off the handle again. Later, in jest, she accused me of being more even and mature than any reasonable person could tolerate.

You're scum, Morelli! You're scum!

So why'd you part ways with this Dickie Orr person?" Lula asked. "He's a jerk." "Good enough for me," she said. "I hate him already.

It is the central bank governor, unlike other regulators or government secretaries, who has command over significant policy levers and has to occasionally disagree with the most powerful people in the country.

The problem is that no ethical system has ever achieved consensus. Ethical systems are completely unlike mathematics or science. This is a source of concern.

What is good about the United States is the sense that you can disagree with the government and not be seen as unpatriotic, although many in the government will try to make you seem unpatriotic.

Unfortunately, after Sept. 11, there was an outburst in America of intense suffering and patriotism, and the Bush administration was very shrewd and effective in painting anyone who disagreed with the policies as unpatriotic or even traitorous.

Zidane was the most unpleasant among my colleagues. I have never liked him on the pitch and we have always clashed. Albeit a champion for his class, I have never managed to see his fair play.

I am not unaware how unpopular on this floor are the sentiments I am about to advocate.

Nothing guarantees that reasonable people will agree about everything, of course, but the unreasonable are certain to be divided by their dogmas. It is time we recognized that this spirit of mutual inquiry, which is the foundation of all real science, is the very antithesis of religious faith.

The truth of the matter is, 'uncomfortable' does not equal 'unsafe,' and 'disagreement' does not equal 'danger.'

If we are all in agreement on the decision - then I propose we postpone further discussion of this matter until our next meeting to give ourselves time to develop disagreement and perhaps gain some understanding of what the decision is all about.

There will be a meeting of the great powers who will disagree, and the next noise we hear will be the screeching of elevators going up and down from heaven to hell.