Quotes about Disagreement
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
If I am angry, I am angry. If I am angry, then I have to be calm, and to be calm, I have to tell you to your face what I think about you. If we don't agree, then okay, 'Bye!' It's no problem.
— Claudio Ranieri
Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the work is new, complex, and vital. When critics disagree, the artist is in accord with himself.
— Oscar Wilde
The foolish race of mankind are swarming below in the night; they shriek and rage and quarrel -- and all of them are right.
— Heinrich Heine
RULE 10, and it can be expressed thus: WHEN YOU DISAGREE, DO SO REASONABLY, AND NOT DISPUTATIOUSLY OR CONTENTIOUSLY.
— Mortimer Adler
You must be able to say, with reasonable certainty, I understand, before you can say any one of the following things: I agree, or I disagree, or I suspend Judgment.
— Mortimer Adler
Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?
— George Eliot
A gentleman is man who can disagree without being disagreeable.
— Anonymous
A difference of opinion is what makes horse racing and missionaries.
— Will Rogers
Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it.
— Samuel Johnson
Arguing with my wife is like this: "I came! I saw! I concurred!"
— Anonymous
When it comes to divide an estate, the politest men quarrel.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson