Differing Quotes

We are losing sight of civility in government and politics. Debate and dialogue is taking a back seat to the politics of destruction and anger and control. Dogma has replaced thoughtful discussion between people of differing views.

A lyric, it is true, is the expression of personal emotion, but then so is all poetry, and to suppose that there are several kinds of poetry, differing from each other in essence, is to be deceived by wholly artificial divisions which have no real being.

So many differing opinions and philosophies... are rarely housed under the roof of a single magazine.

I defend both the freedom of expression and society's right to counter it. I must pay the price for differing. It is the natural way of things.

Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them, few of them willed or determined by the will-whatever we may think.

I think that people with differing points of view find common ground in 'Modern Family' is very flattering, and I'm appreciative of that.

Because countries often have differing political and economic systems, agreements are needed to protect those invested in trade.

It is the people who scream the loudest about America and Freedom who see to be the most intolerant for a differing point of view.

An egalitarian educational system is necessarily opposed to meritocracy and reward for achievement. It is inevitably opposed to procedures that might reveal differing levels of achievement.

To observe people in conflict is a necessary part of a child's education. It helps him to understand and accept his own occasional hostilities and to realize that differing opinions need not imply an absence of love.

Melancholy and sadness are the start of doubt... doubt is the beginning of despair; despair is the cruel beginning of the differing degrees of wickedness.