Unanimity Quotes

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

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

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

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.

It is idle to await unanimity.

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.

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.

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.