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Compromise is most likely when both parties respect each other no matter how much they disagree. In stressful situations where you need a consensus, respect sometimes means saying nothing and refraining from name-calling even when irritated.
- Ben Carson
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.
- William James
Whenever you write on a subject that questions the status quo, there are bound to be many who wrestle with the issues
- Ted Dekker
The author says those who often claim to be tolerant are tolerant of those who agree with them — which is no one's definition of tolerance.
- Frank Turek
If you cannot answer a man's argument, all it not lost; you can still call him vile names.
- Elbert Hubbard
There are two answers to every question - God's answer and everybody else's - and everybody else is wrong when they disagree with him.
- Tony Evans
The world may disagree with the Church, but the world knows very definitely with what it is disagreeing. In the future as in the past, the Church will be intolerant about the sanctity of marriage, for what God has joined together no man shall put asunder; she will be intolerant about her creed, and be ready to die for it, for she fears not those who kill the body, but rather those who have the power to cast body and soul into hell.
- Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
Religious leaders have agreed not to disagree and those beliefs for which some of our ancestors would have died they have melted into a spineless Humanism.
- Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
Why do grownups quarrel so easily, so much, and over the most idiotic things? Up till now I thought that only children squabbled and that wore off as you grew up.
- Anne Frank
Have you not learned the most in your life from those with whom you disagreed - those who saw it differently from you?
- Walt Whitman
there are always people who can't forgive an able man for differing from them.
- George Eliot
Without personal commitment to the attributes of fair play and integrity, the United States is in grave danger. Malice and intolerance stalk our society, staking claim to our minds, and not one corner of our social order is unaffected. This darkness is a significant threat to our national good, perhaps the most significant threat in our history, for it strikes at the heart of democracy. Where people are not free to disagree, there can be no democracy, since that is what democracy is.
- Marianne Williamson