Disagreement Quotes
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“Some girls would consider this an insult. Not me, because if you had any idea how close we used to be, you would know how sincere she is. I guess you could say she鈥檚 still my friend, but a friend I keep at arm鈥檚 length.”
― Zonked Out: The Teen Psychologist of San Marcos Who Killed Her Santa Claus and Found the Blue-Black Edge of the Love Universe
― Zonked Out: The Teen Psychologist of San Marcos Who Killed Her Santa Claus and Found the Blue-Black Edge of the Love Universe

“Small acts of persuasion matter, because there is much less distance between people's beliefs than we often suppose. We easily confuse the distance between people's political positions with the intensity of their convictions about them. It is entirely possible for people to become sharply divided, even hostile, , over relatively minor disagreements. Americans have fought epic political battles over things like baking wedding cakes and kneeling during the national anthem. And we once fought a shooting war over a whiskey tax of ten cents per gallon. The ferocity of these battles has nothing to do with the actual distance between different positions, which, when compared to the entire range of opinions possible in the world, is almost negligible.
None of this means that we can persuade our opponents easily. Persuading people to change their minds is excruciatingly difficult. It doesn't always work, and it rarely works the way we think it will. But it does work, and the fact that it works makes it possible for us to have a democracy.”
― We Must Not Be Enemies: Restoring America's Civic Tradition
None of this means that we can persuade our opponents easily. Persuading people to change their minds is excruciatingly difficult. It doesn't always work, and it rarely works the way we think it will. But it does work, and the fact that it works makes it possible for us to have a democracy.”
― We Must Not Be Enemies: Restoring America's Civic Tradition

“Classical philosophy holds that perpetual agreement with another person is incompatible with friendship. Because no two people can possibly agree on everything, someone who never expresses disagreement with you is acting insincerely - and true friendship requires sincerity above almost everything else.”
― We Must Not Be Enemies: Restoring America's Civic Tradition
― We Must Not Be Enemies: Restoring America's Civic Tradition

“Each thinker will regard anything that clashes with his or her worldview to be insane and in conflict with reality. That鈥檚 because each thinker regards his or her worldview as reality itself and not as just an inner illusion. However, worldviews are just inner illusions. Making matters worse, people with similar worldviews tend to join with others who share major elements of their worldviews, and they tend to avoid those people who have worldviews that aren鈥檛 similar. This segregation results in confirmation bias among peers, making matters much worse.”
― Exposing the REAL Creation-Evolution Debate: The Absolute Proof of the Biblical Account
― Exposing the REAL Creation-Evolution Debate: The Absolute Proof of the Biblical Account

“Once asked how we could be friends, given our disagreement on lots of things, Justice Scalia answered: 'I attack ideas. I don't attack people.”
― My Own Words
― My Own Words
“John, always clueless to the moment at hand, points fiercely at his feet, commanding Dotty to come. But Dotty refuses to break rank with her fellow musicians.
Good for her.
Naturally, her disobedience does not go over with John. He bumps me occasionally, as he fumes, pacing erratically. I throw an elbow (that doesn鈥檛 connect) and give him a glare of irritation. Why isn鈥檛 anyone paying attention to me?”
― Zonked Out: The Teen Psychologist of San Marcos Who Killed Her Santa Claus and Found the Blue-Black Edge of the Love Universe
Good for her.
Naturally, her disobedience does not go over with John. He bumps me occasionally, as he fumes, pacing erratically. I throw an elbow (that doesn鈥檛 connect) and give him a glare of irritation. Why isn鈥檛 anyone paying attention to me?”
― Zonked Out: The Teen Psychologist of San Marcos Who Killed Her Santa Claus and Found the Blue-Black Edge of the Love Universe

“It takes a great degree of tolerance, and that of humility, to strongly disagree with someone, and not express your disagreement.”
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“When one person鈥檚 worldview differs from the worldview of another person, everything is fine until the two people realize that they aren鈥檛 seeing eye to eye. Each thinker will regard anything that clashes with his or her worldview to be insane and in conflict with reality.”
― Exposing the REAL Creation-Evolution Debate: The Absolute Proof of the Biblical Account
― Exposing the REAL Creation-Evolution Debate: The Absolute Proof of the Biblical Account

“We filter what we observe and tend to explain away or ignore anything that doesn鈥檛 conform with what鈥檚 already in our worldviews. We interpret what we observe based on the assumptions and presuppositions that come out of our worldviews. If an observation or experience conflicts with our worldviews, we think it鈥檚 insane, unreal, or evil.”
― Exposing the REAL Creation-Evolution Debate: The Absolute Proof of the Biblical Account
― Exposing the REAL Creation-Evolution Debate: The Absolute Proof of the Biblical Account

“Certain emotional influences such as peer pressure or extreme fear can cause us to alter our worldviews and change what we accept as normal. That鈥檚 what the political technique of the Overton window is all about. Create a crisis and move the window of how much freedom people are willing to do without. That鈥檚 how governments, schools, and personal relationships become oppressive.”
― Exposing the REAL Creation-Evolution Debate: The Absolute Proof of the Biblical Account
― Exposing the REAL Creation-Evolution Debate: The Absolute Proof of the Biblical Account

“We have never observed or experienced anything objectively. We have always had some sort of outside influence or preconception. If nothing else, we had the impulses of our emotions that drove us and kept us from seeing reality as it really is. And we have always added unreality to our worldviews. That unreality came from our imaginations and became the fake inner reality each of us calls 鈥渙ur worldview.鈥 As insane as it may be, some even call it their 鈥渙wn reality.”
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“To call others evil is simpler and more emotionally satisfying than dealing with them as equal human beings that just disagree. That is why some do it so often.”
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“Differences are not a failure of humanity, differences are a test of our humanity.”
― Honor He Wrote: 100 Sonnets For Humans Not Vegetables
― Honor He Wrote: 100 Sonnets For Humans Not Vegetables

“Who knows what goes on in a marriage? Even my parents, who had a compatible marriage, had their points of contention. They had figured out how to disagree and how to find common ground.”
― Rewriting My Happily Ever After - A Memoir of Divorce and Discovery
― Rewriting My Happily Ever After - A Memoir of Divorce and Discovery

“Differences don't make a society fall, indifference does.”
― Hurricane Humans: Give me accountability, I'll give you peace
― Hurricane Humans: Give me accountability, I'll give you peace

“I don't have to agree with everything someone says, but everyone has something I could assimilate to make my own insight stronger and clearer.”
― Servitude is Sanctitude
― Servitude is Sanctitude

“The Loco Sonnet
Better to be loco for something,
Than to be sane for nothing.
Better to fight and die for a purpose,
Than to sit around and do chanting.
Better to love and be exploited,
Than to be self-obsessed and crooked.
Better to disagree and annoy each other,
Than to hide the differences fostering hatred.
Better to be a know-nothing idiot,
Than to be a know-it-all loudspeaker.
Better a character without fancy clothes,
Than fancy clothes without character.
There鈥檚 no future without a united humanity.
The whole world is a reflection of me.”
― Sleepless for Society
Better to be loco for something,
Than to be sane for nothing.
Better to fight and die for a purpose,
Than to sit around and do chanting.
Better to love and be exploited,
Than to be self-obsessed and crooked.
Better to disagree and annoy each other,
Than to hide the differences fostering hatred.
Better to be a know-nothing idiot,
Than to be a know-it-all loudspeaker.
Better a character without fancy clothes,
Than fancy clothes without character.
There鈥檚 no future without a united humanity.
The whole world is a reflection of me.”
― Sleepless for Society
“For whatever reason, you wil tend to think people who disagree with you are disagreeing because they are not as good as you.”
― The BULL SHIT LIFE: Why Everything Sucks
― The BULL SHIT LIFE: Why Everything Sucks
“Can we create critical mass of people who not only agree with one other but can also disagree with one another? I feel like we've forgotten that in this age. And it's led to this dismissal, cynicism, which then is extended through the lack of redemption. I think one of the challenges of the secular, post-modern age is that it creates the day of judgment now. Religions believe that the day of judgment is yet to come, so there is the idea of redemption, and forgiveness, and change, and improvement.”
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“Religion and ideology are two faces of the same Janus. Both lead to suppression of disagreement and hence become fossilized. Such fossilization leads to extreme reverence for the text and the increased authority of the written word, written in an age gone by so long ago that in the present it is clearly anachronistic.”
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“Difference & Discrimination (The Sonnet)
There ain't no difference that can't be conquered,
Except for those that are rooted in inhumanity.
A bigot's emphasis on their supremacy over others,
Is not a difference in opinion but clinical insanity.
Nobody is inferior to nobody in this world of ours,
Except for those who think of others as such.
Neither ancestry nor luxury defines a character,
Conduct alone defines character, above all fuss.
Say, discrimination is not a difference in opinion,
It's an act that sets animals apart from humans.
Free speech is a phenomenon of human society,
Hate speech is an act of stoneage barbarians.
Let us distinguish differences from discrimination,
Then celebrate differences while treating discrimination.”
― Honor He Wrote: 100 Sonnets For Humans Not Vegetables
There ain't no difference that can't be conquered,
Except for those that are rooted in inhumanity.
A bigot's emphasis on their supremacy over others,
Is not a difference in opinion but clinical insanity.
Nobody is inferior to nobody in this world of ours,
Except for those who think of others as such.
Neither ancestry nor luxury defines a character,
Conduct alone defines character, above all fuss.
Say, discrimination is not a difference in opinion,
It's an act that sets animals apart from humans.
Free speech is a phenomenon of human society,
Hate speech is an act of stoneage barbarians.
Let us distinguish differences from discrimination,
Then celebrate differences while treating discrimination.”
― Honor He Wrote: 100 Sonnets For Humans Not Vegetables

“You know why we have two hands 'n one mouth, so that we may stop arguing 鈥榥 help each other out.”
― Honor He Wrote: 100 Sonnets For Humans Not Vegetables
― Honor He Wrote: 100 Sonnets For Humans Not Vegetables

“Consensus of Heart (The Sonnet)
Place truth at the feet of love,
Intellect at the feet of integration.
Place belief at the feet of harmony,
Stubbornness at the feet of ascension.
Place tradition at the feet of expansion,
Individuality at the feet of collectivity.
Place knowledge at the feet of warmth,
Patriotism at the feet of world community.
Place differences at the feet of unity,
Rebellion at the feet of accountability.
Place serenity at the feet of social uplift,
Practicality at the feet of dignity 'n equality.
Whether there is consensus of head or not,
Let us first ensure consensus of the heart.”
― Dervish Advaitam: Gospel of Sacred Feminines and Holy Fathers
Place truth at the feet of love,
Intellect at the feet of integration.
Place belief at the feet of harmony,
Stubbornness at the feet of ascension.
Place tradition at the feet of expansion,
Individuality at the feet of collectivity.
Place knowledge at the feet of warmth,
Patriotism at the feet of world community.
Place differences at the feet of unity,
Rebellion at the feet of accountability.
Place serenity at the feet of social uplift,
Practicality at the feet of dignity 'n equality.
Whether there is consensus of head or not,
Let us first ensure consensus of the heart.”
― Dervish Advaitam: Gospel of Sacred Feminines and Holy Fathers

“Reader: Why would an unbeliever read you?/
Author: For the same reason a believer should read an unbeliever. If you know only what you know, you don't even know that. You understand things only by contrast. Why should a Republican listen to a Democrat? Why should people who disagree dialog with each other?”
― Making Sense Out of Suffering
Author: For the same reason a believer should read an unbeliever. If you know only what you know, you don't even know that. You understand things only by contrast. Why should a Republican listen to a Democrat? Why should people who disagree dialog with each other?”
― Making Sense Out of Suffering
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