Disagree Quotes - Page 32

• I'm not a conservative or a republican but I know that there's conservative republicans who I probably vigorously disagree with but I also am smart enough, or something enough, to understand that they really think that they're right, and they're looking at me like I'm crazy.

  Henry Rollins

  Crazy, Smart, Thinking

  4 Copy quote

• If you are offended by reading views that disagree with yours, then yes, you will be offended. However, it is not gratuitously offensive, it simply puts an argument, and if your views are strong enough, as I believe they are, you will be able to defend your views. You will not say, "Oh, it's offensive, it's offensive." You will say "No, you are wrong here and you are wrong here," and that's what you should do.

  Richard Dawkins

  Strong, Fear, Believe

  6 Copy quote

• The punishment itself is something I respectfully disagree with, but for thousands and thousands of years it was practiced everywhere.

  Werner Herzog

  Years, Punishment

  "Werner Herzog's Abyss Stares Back". Interview with Leah Carroll, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 10, 2011.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• It's a no win situation. It's a mug's game. The religions have contrived to make it impossible to disagree with them critically without being rude. They play the hurt feelings card at every opportunity.

  Daniel Dennett

  Hurt, Winning, Opportunity

  24 Copy quote

• Perhaps the most radical thing we followers of Jesus can do in the information age is treat each other like humans-not heroes, not villains, not avatars, not statuses, not Republicans, not Democrats, not Calvinists, not Emergents-just humans. This wouldn't mean we would stop disagreeing, but I think it would mean we would disagree well.

  Rachel Held Evans

  Jesus, Hero, Mean

  12 Copy quote

• Ill seemes (sayd he) if he so valiant be,
  That he should be so sterne to stranger wight;
  For seldom yet did living creature see
  That courtesie and manhood ever disagree.

  Edmund Spenser

  Stranger, Courtesy, Should

  Edmund Spenser, George Gilfillan (1859). “The poetical works of Edmund Spenser: With memoir and critical dissertations”, p.45

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• Unfortunately civility is hard to codify or legislate, but you know it when you see it. It's possible to disagree without being disagreeable.

  Sandra Day O'Connor

  Conflict, Civility, Manners

  65 Copy quote

• If you disagree with your government, that's political. If you disagree with your government that is approaching theocracy, then you're evil.

  Margaret Atwood

  Government, Evil, Political

  24 Copy quote

• It is a mark of a superior mind to be able to disagree without being disagreeable.

  Ann Landers

  Mind, Able, Conflict

  Ann Landers (1979). “The Ann Landers Encyclopedia, A to Z: Improve Your Life Emotionally, Medically, Sexually, Socially, Spiritually”

  14 Copy quote

  Show source

• 'Murphys law of economic policy': Economists have the least influence on policy where they know the most and are most agreed; they have the most influence on policy where they know the least and disagree most vehemently.

  Alan Blinder

  Law, Influence, Economics

  "New ball game, same old team" by Faisal Islam, www.theguardian.com. March 6, 2004.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• The American people want solutions to the problems our country faces. They may disagree on exactly how to address the issues, but they want them addressed all the same.

  Martha Roby

  Country, Issues, People

  "Bipartisan test awaits new Congress" by Martha Roby, www.politico.com. November 13, 2012.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The real transgression occurs when religion wants government to tell citizens how to live uniquely personal parts of their lives. The failure of Prohibition proves the futility of such an attempt when a majority or even a substantial minority happens to disagree. Some questions may be inherently individual ones, or people may be sharply divided about whether they are. In such cases, like Prohibition and abortion, the proper role of religion is to appeal to the conscience of the individual, not the coercive power of the state.

  Edward Kennedy

  Real, Government, People

  4 Copy quote

• People who disagree with His Excellency, the President for Life and 'Chief of Chiefs,' are frequently found to be the victims of car crashes (their bodies mysteriously riddled with bullets); or dead in their beds of heart attacks (their bodies mysteriously riddled with bullets); or the recipients of some not-quite-fresh seafood (their bodies mysteriously riddled with bullets).

  Alexandra Fuller

  Heart, Car, People

  Alexandra Fuller (2002). “Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood”, p.215, Random House

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Everyone in the world disagrees with me, including some managers, but I think managing in the American League is much more difficult for that very reason (having the designated hitter). In the National League, my situation is dictated for me. If I'm behind in the game, I've got to pinch hit. I've got to take my pitcher out. In the American League, you have to zero in. You have to know exactly when to take them out of there. In the National League, that's done for you.

  Jim Leyland

  Zero, Thinking, Games

  13 Copy quote

• To eat well, I always disagree with critics who say that all restaurants should be fine dining. You can get a Michelin star if you serve the best hamburger in the world.

  David Chang

  Stars, Dining, World

  18 Copy quote

• We disagree with the assertion that great teachers can be replaced by online alternatives. The futuristic claim that technology will triumph over teachers ignores all the social and relational dimensions of teaching and learning.

  Andy Hargreaves

  Teacher, Teaching, Technology

  "The Global Search for Education: What Is the Fourth Way?". Interview with C. M. Rubin, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 28, 2013.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The widespread belief among politicians and pundits is that high test scores are everything. I strongly disagree. What matters most is character. Working hard, treating others with respect and honesty-those are the keys to success.

  Hal Urban

  Honesty, Character, What Matters

  6 Copy quote

• Although I've watched myself making the transition from being a girl to being a woman, I still feel 15 years old. My reflection disagrees.

  Jaime Winstone

  Girl, Reflection, Years

  4 Copy quote

• Reasonable people can reasonably disagree on policy.

  Mark McKinnon

  People, Policy, Reasonable

  "Mark McKinnon: An Unfair Attack on Mitt Romney's NAACP Speech" by Mark McKinnon, www.thedailybeast.com. July 14, 2012.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Some have said that the thesis [of indeterminacy] is a consequence of my behaviorism. Some have said that it is a reductio ad absurdum of my behaviorism. I disagree with this second point, but I agree with the first. I hold further that the behaviorism approach is mandatory. In psychology one may or may not be a behaviorist, but in linguistics one has no choice.

  Willard Van Orman Quine

  Choices, Psychology, May

  Willard Van Orman Quine, Dagfinn Føllesdal, Douglas B. Quine (2008). “Confessions of a Confirmed Extensionalist: And Other Essays”, p.341, Harvard University Press

  18 Copy quote

  Show source

• If something was bugging you, you talk about it. But that's the cool thing: we [My Chemical Romance] don't bug each other. We just have deep discussions about art and music like friends. And we disagree about stuff but the disagreements are so healthy and intelligently thought out. We're very respectful of each other's opinions, especially about music.

  Gerard Way

  Art, Romance, Healthy

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• When we say that pleasure is the end, we do not mean the pleasure of the profligate or that which depends on physical enjoyment--as some think who do not understand our teachings, disagree with them, or give them an evil interpretation--but by pleasure we mean the state wherein the body is free from pain and the mind from anxiety.

  Epicurus

  Pain, Teaching, Mean

  Epicurus (1964). “Letters: Principles Doctrines, and Vatican Sayings Translated, with an Introd. and Notes, by Russel M. Geor. Indianapolis Merrill”

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I think marriage is between a man and a woman. I think we're all created equal in God's eyes, I think we need to respect and love those we disagree with. I think we can have religious liberty without discrimination. My views on marriage aren't evolving with the polls. It's based on my faith, I think it should remain between a man and a woman.

  Bobby Jindal

  Religious, Eye, Men

  "Meet the Press", www.nbcnews.com. June 28, 2015.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I fancy that England is not the only place where married folks disagree, and where there are bad husbands. If one does not care to meet with such cases, one must quit this world. Those wishing to enter the marriage state had better not come to me for advice, for I disapprove of it altogether.

  Elisabeth Charlotte d'Orleans

  Marriage, Husband, Advice

  5 Copy quote

• The average ordinary person, in the worst slums of America, someone who might even hate the law and disagree with the government, they would do something about that [abandoned child]. But in Afghanistan, people hardly have the means to take care of themselves, let alone a random child on the street.

  Immortal Technique

  Children, Hate, Mean

  Source: www.ballerstatus.com

  9 Copy quote

  Show source