Disagreement Quotes - Page 9

• There are so many disagreements in the world, but I like the idea of people agreeing on something like art.

  Fred Armisen

  Art, People, World

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I think there's a shared view and no disagreement as to how dangerous the situation in North Korea has become. I think even China is beginning to recognize that this presents a threat to China's interests as well.

  Rex W. Tillerson

  Thinking, Dangerous, Threat

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• I got fired seven or eight times before I was 32. And of those seven or eight times, I got fired not for reasons of performance or incompetence; I got fired for personal, personality disagreement, whatever other reasons.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Personality, Reason, Seven

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• I'm honestly not sure that I've ever tried to talk as a theologian about "homosexual acts," per se. My disagreement with the current teaching of the Roman Congregations is about what I consider to be their fundamentally flawed premise of the objectively disordered nature of the inclination.

  James Alison

  Teaching, Currents, Homosexual

  Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

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• Some soldier will say, 'You know, sir, you and I have some political disagreements, but I'm glad you came all the way out here.' And you know, you say, 'Well, maybe one day you'll see the light but I'm glad to be out here with you.'

  Henry Rollins

  Light, Political, Soldier

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• It's a flaw in our argument, for sure. By any reading of evolutionary theory, creationists ought to have died out ages ago. They serve no function in the planet's ecosystem, and no other species has survived so long while in such fundamental disagreement with observable reality. If I wasn't such an ardent believer in secular materialism, I'd wager this is really troubling Darwin in the afterlife.

  Richard Dawkins

  Reading, Reality, Ecosystems

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• There are disagreements over whether autism is something that should be always and all the time embraced and celebrated as just a different way to be human, or whether autism sometimes can be really so debilitating to individuals that you want to do something to change those disabilities in them.

  John Donvan

  Autism, Different, Want

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I believe that Bruce Springsteen is terrific, but I don't think he's God. That's the only real disagreement between me and my wife. Music is really fun, and it is something that my wife and I like to share.

  Russ Feingold

  Fun, Real, Believe

  Interview with Matthew Rothschild for The Progressive Magazine, www.thirdworldtraveler.com. May 2002.

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• Eleanor Roosevelt fights for an anti-lynch law with the NAACP, with Walter White and Mary McLeod Bethune. And she begs FDR to say one word, say one word to prevent a filibuster or to end a filibuster. From '34 to '35 to '36 to '37 to '38, it comes up again and again, and FDR doesn't say one word. And the correspondence between them that we have, I mean, she says, "I cannot believe you're not going to say one word." And she writes to Walter White, "I've asked FDR to say one word. Perhaps he will." But he doesn't. And these become very bitter disagreements.

  Blanche Wiesen Cook

  Believe, Writing, Mean

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Aesthetics is both politics and philosophy, a series of agreements and disagreements between subjective minds.

  Jimenez Lai

  Philosophy, Agreement, Mind

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• We [US government] have no fundamental disagreement with the Saudis - I mean, excuse me, with the Iraqis any more than we do with the Arab League, which we happen to support the position they're taking.

  Joe Biden

  Mean, Government, League

  "Transcript: Interview With Joe Biden". Interview with Robert Siegel, www.wbur.org. December 13, 2011.

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• The greater informational levels of the voters, their decreasing inhibitions in expressing disagreement, and their greater preference for Jeffersonian direct involvement, all make the need for a 'permanent campaign' to sell a president's policies all the more crucial.

  Dick Morris

  Political, President, Needs

  Dick Morris (2007). “The New Prince: Machiavelli Updated for the Twenty-First Century”, p.74, St. Martin's Press

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• I would say the special experience of American wartime policy in the last 40 years, from Vietnam on, is that the war itself became controversial in the country and that the most important thing we need in the current situation is, whatever disagreements there may be on tactics, that the legitimacy of the war itself does not become a subject of controversy. We have to start with the assumption, obviously, that whatever administration is conducting a war wants to end it.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Country, War, Years

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• Quite often there's a great deal of disagreement within the executive branch about what we should do. Some cases are pretty straightforward, but a lot of them aren't.

  Donald Verrilli Jr.

  Branches, Executive Branch, Should

  "Farewell to the General". "Amicus" with Dahlia Lithwick, www.slate.com. June 28, 2016.

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• For as the interposition of a rivulet, however small, will occasion the line of the phalanx to fluctuate, so any trifling disagreement will be the cause of seditions; but they will not so soon flow from anything else as from the disagreement between virtue and vice, and next to that between poverty and riches.

  Aristotle

  Vices, Lines, Riches

  Aristotle (2015). “Politics”, p.164, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• But suppose we take the noun 'truth': here is a case where the disagreements between different theorists have largely turned on whether they interpreted this as a name of a substance, of a quality, or of a relation.

  J. L. Austin

  Names, Quality, Different

  "Philosophical Papers" by J. L. Austin, James Opie Urmson, Geoffrey James Warnock, 3rd ed., New York: Oxford, (p. 73), 1979.

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• Abortion raises moral and spiritual questions over which honorable persons can disagree sincerely and profoundly. But those disagreements did not then and do not now relieve us of our duty to apply the Constitution faithfully.

  Harry A. Blackmun

  Spiritual, Abortion, Moral

  "January 22, 1973: Roe v. Wade", www.cnn.com. March 10, 2003.

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• Trans rights formation that mimics the models and strategies of the lesbian and gay rights framework is growing, and there are many significant strategy disagreements between those building that work and those doing racial and economic justice centered trans work.

  Dean Spade

  Gay, Rights, Justice

  "On Normal Life". Interview with Natalie Oswin, societyandspace.org. January 15, 2014.

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• Wherever you have people, you have factions and disagreements and personality conflicts.

  Jerry B. Jenkins

  People, Personality, Conflict

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• I always get role models, people from real life who've lived the lives of the characters, and talk it through together, me, them and the actor, a lot. That helps. We certainly have our disagreements. But in the end we trust each other.

  Tony Scott

  Real, Character, People

  Source: editorial.rottentomatoes.com

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• A campaign is a disagreement, and disagreements divide. But an election is a decision, and decisions clear the way for harmony and peace. I mean to be president of all the people.

  George H. W. Bush

  Mean, People, Decision

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• Religion is unusual among divisive labels in being spectacularly unnecessary. If religious beliefs had any evidence going for them, we might have to respect them in spite of their concomitant unpleasantness. But there is no such evidence. To label people as death-deserving enemies because of disagreements about real world politics is bad enough. To do the same for disagreements about a delusional world inhabited by archangels, demons and imaginary friends is ludicrously tragic.

  Richard Dawkins

  Religious, Real, People

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• There is too much disagreement for disagreement's sake. In a time of persistent challenges that still call into question our most sacred aspirations as a country, we cannot afford shallow callous divisiveness in our public debate.

  Cory Booker

  Country, Challenges, Sake

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• Disagreements between incompatible beliefs cannot be settled by reasoned argument because reasoned argument is drummed out of those trained in religion from the cradle.

  Richard Dawkins

  Belief, Argument, Cradle

  "The atheist". Interview with Gordy Slack, www.salon.com. April 30, 2005.

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• Decisions of the kind the executive has to make are not made well by acclamation. They are made well only if based on the clash of conflicting views...The first rule in decision-making is that one does not make a decision unless there is disagreement.

  Peter Drucker

  Views, Decision, Doe

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