Unanimity Quotes

30 quotes by 28 authors

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… — Benjamin Carson
Doctrines like Christianity or Islam or Marxism require unanimity of belief. One dissenter casts doubt on the creed of millions. — Edward Abbey
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… — Ludwig von Mises
Unanimity of opinion may be fitting for a church, for the frightened or greedy victims of some (ancient, or modern) myth, or for the weak… — Paul Feyerabend
Governments are trying to achieve unanimity by stifling any scientist who disagrees. Einstein could not have got funding under the present system. — Nigel Calder
Radical views that are outside the mainstream generally (but not always) are more reliable than the dominant view because they are more regularly challenged and… — Michael Pare
The 'Big Green Debate' has entered a very interesting stage. Once there was endless controversy; now there is near unanimity. Once there was universal political… — Jonathon Porritt
The real wonder is that so many difficulties should have been surmounted [in the federal convention], and surmounted with a unanimity almost as unprecedented as… — James Madison
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… — James C. Collins
We do not seek the unanimity that comes to those who water down all issues to the lowest common denominator - or to those who… — John F. Kennedy
...convince all nuclear powers, including those which have been more reluctant up to now, of the necessity to respect the "vital interests" of all peoples… — Alfonso Garcia Robles
You only find complete unanimity in a cemetary. — Abel Aganbegyan
I don't think leadership demands yes or no answers; I think leadership is providing the forum for making the right decision, which doesn't demand unanimity. — Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, Jr.
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
It is idle to await unanimity. — Robert Dale Owen
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… — J. William Fulbright
Where they do agree on the stage, their unanimity is wonderful. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan
But doing what I do, you will never get unanimity of people. — Dan Abrams
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
It is interesting to observe with what singular unanimity the farthest sundered nations and generations consent to give completeness and roundness to an ancient fable,… — Henry David Thoreau

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