Unanimity Quotes

• If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.

  George S. Patton

  Motivational, Business, Military

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• But doing what I do, you will never get unanimity of people.

  Dan Abrams

  People

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• I think we Americans tend to put too high a price on unanimity, as if there were something dangerous and illegitimate about honest differences of opinion honestly expressed by honest men.

  J. William Fulbright

  Men, Thinking, Differences

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• Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to continually be part of unanimity.

  Christopher Morley

  Wisdom, Silly, Reading

  Christopher Morley (2013). “The Haunted Bookshop”, p.294, Melville House

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• Those who begin coercive elimination of dissent soon find themselves exterminating dissenters. Compulsory unification of opinion achieves only the unanimity of the graveyard.

  Robert H. Jackson

  Liberty, Opinion, Achieve

  West Virginia State Bd. of Educ. v. Barnette (1943)

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• You see, party labels do not ensure unanimity any more than trying to cast the challenge we confront as a people through a partisan prism.

  J. D. Hayworth

  Party, People, Challenges

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• Music creates order out of chaos: for rhythm imposes unanimity upon the divergent, melody imposes continuity upon the disjointed, and harmony imposes compatibility upon the incongruous.

  Yehudi Menuhin

  Music, Order, Divergent

  Yehudi Menuhin (1972). “Theme and Variations”, New York : Stein and Day

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• There was one issue on which there seemed to be almost unanimity: the Internet should not be managed by any government, national or multinational.

  Jon Postel

  Government, Issues, Internet

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• Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking.

  Christopher Morley

  Book, Reading, Thinking

  Christopher Morley (2013). “The Haunted Bookshop”, p.294, Melville House

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• Music creates order out of chaos.

  Yehudi Menuhin

  Music, Order, Continuity Of Life

  "Symboles Dans la Vie Et Dans L'art". Book by George Whalley, p. 29, 1987.

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• There is great unanimity among the dissolute.
  [Lat., Magna inter molles concordia.]

  Juvenal

  Evil

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• What we need to do in this PC world is forget about unanimity of speech and unanimity of thought and we need to concentrate on being respectful of those people with whom we disagree.

  Benjamin Carson

  People, Needs, World

  "Dr. Carson Prayer Breakfast Speech Generates Buzz". www.charismamag.com. February 13, 2013.

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• In unanimity there may well be either cowardice or uncritical thinking.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Thinking, May, Cowardice

  Twitter post from Oct 22, 2010

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• Epistemology now flourishes with various complementary approaches. This includes formal epistemology, experimental philosophy, cognitive science and psychology, including relevant brain science, and other philosophical subfields, such as metaphysics, action theory, language, and mind. It is not as though all questions of armchair, traditional epistemology are already settled conclusively, with unanimity or even consensus. We still need to reason our way together to a better view of those issues.

  Ernest Sosa

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Views

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• The Democratic Party has always been a party that is not known for its unanimity.

  Nancy Pelosi

  Party, Democratic, Known

  Source: www.politico.com

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• History has witnessed the failure of many endeavors to impose peace by war, cooperation by coercion, unanimity by slaughtering dissidents.... A lasting order cannot be established by bayonets.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Money, War, Order

  Ludwig Von Mises (1985). “Omnipotent Government: The Rise of the Total State and Total War”, Libertarian Press

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• A majority held in restraint by constitutional checks and limitations, and always changing easily with deliberate changes of popular opinions and sentiments, is the only true sovereign of a free people. Whoever rejects it does of necessity fly to anarchy or to despotism. Unanimity is impossible. The rule of a minority, as a permanent arrangement, is wholly inadmissible; so that, rejecting the majority principle, anarchy or despotism in some form is all that is left.

  Abraham Lincoln

  People, Majority, Principles

  Abraham Lincoln (1989). “Abraham Lincoln: Speeches & Writings Part 2: 1859-1865: Library of America #46”, p.220, Library of America

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• I've never found an important decision made by a great organization that was made at a point of unanimity. Significant decisions carry risks and inevitably some will oppose it. In these settings, the great legislative leader must be artful in handling uncomfortable decisions, and this requires rigor.

  James C. Collins

  Leadership, Organization, Decision

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• Unanimity is always stupid.

  Nelson Rodrigues

  Stupid

  "A mulher que Amou Demais" by Nelson Rodrigues, Published br Companhia das Letras, (p. 13), 2003.

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• You only find complete unanimity in a cemetary.

  Abel Aganbegyan

  Statistics

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• Economists' unanimity that bad business is ahead is the most reassuring news possible. It's very unlikely that this will be the one time they're right.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Business, News, Reassuring

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• It is idle to await unanimity.

  Robert Dale Owen

  Idle

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• The lion shall never lie down with the lamb. The lion eternally shall devour the lamb, the lamb eternally shall be devoured. Man knows the great consummation in the flesh, the sensual ecstasy, and that is eternal. Also the spiritual ecstasy of unanimity, that is eternal. But the two are separate and never to be confused.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Spiritual, Confused, Lying

  D. H. Lawrence, Paul Eggert (2002). “Twilight in Italy and Other Essays”, p.56, Cambridge University Press

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• As long as man remains an inquiring animal, there can never be a complete unanimity in our fundamental beliefs. The more diverse our paths, the greater is likely to be the divergence of beliefs.

  Arthur Keith

  Faith, Respect, Learning

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• For black America needs a politics whose first mission isn't the reinforcement of the idea of black America; and a discourse of race that isn't centrally concerned with preserving the idea of race and racial unanimity. We need something we don't yet have: a way of speaking about black poverty that doesn't falsify the reality of black advancement; a way of speaking about black advancement that doesn't distort the enduring realities of black poverty.

  Henry Louis Gates

  Reality, Race, Ideas

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