Quotes about Disagreement
Christianity supplies a Hell for the people who disagree with you and a Heaven for your friends.
- Elbert Hubbard
Respect your fellow human being, treat them fairly, disagree with them honestly, enjoy their friendship, explore your thoughts about one another candidly, work together for a common goal and help one another achieve it.
- Bill Bradley
It is possible to greatly disagree on the meaning of the symbols in the book of Revelation, yet agree entirely and substantially on the matter of Christ's coming and kingdom.
- JC Ryle
There's nothing in this world more instinctively abhorrent to me than finding myself in agreement with my fellow-humans.
- Malcolm Muggeridge
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.
- Ben Carson
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.
- CS Lewis
People are making the most unbelievable statements about the other based on that kind of insistence that the person who disagrees with you fundamentally can't exist. These are political statements as well as biological and everything else.
- Nikki Giovanni
This soul, or life within us, by no means agrees with the life outside us. If one has the courage to ask her what she thinks, she is always saying the very opposite to what other people say.
- Virginia Woolf
This idea that it's intolerant to object to anyone else's position, hovever, is a complete perversion of the historic understanding of tolrance, which was that one had to have the respect to listen to anyone else's point of view, even one with which one might profoundly disagree. Tolerance did not reject truth claims; it respected them.
- Charles Colson
To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.
- Thomas Paine
They're a pack of dimpled fuckwits and you can tell them I said so.
- Cormac McCarthy
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.
- Jimmy Carter