Quotes About Dissenting Opinions

#1. My view is that good community management is like having good municipal government: You should be able to have dissenting opinions and so on, freedom of speech, but your grandmother should also be able to walk down the street at night without having to worry about getting mugged.

Jimmy Wales

#2. Dissenting opinions are useful even when they're wrong. So instead of speaking to highly agreeable audiences, target suggestions to people with a history of originality.

Adam Grant

#3. In a number of cases dissenting opinions have in time become the law.

Charles Evans Hughes

#4. The dissenting opinions of one generation become the prevailing interpretation of the next.

Burton J. Hendrick

#5. If you want criticisms, read the dissenting opinions of the Court. That will give you criticisms.

William Jennings Bryan

#6. God has somehow placed into Christian's insides a special something, that extra inner reservoir of power that is more than a match for the stuff life throws at us.

Charles R. Swindoll

#7. The first opinion the Court ever filed has a dissenting opinion. Dissent is a tradition of this Court ... When someone is writing for the Court, he hopes to get eight others to agree with him, so many of the majority opinions are rather stultified.

William O. Douglas

#8. It is always the village women who drive these things.

Stephen Lewis

#9. [I] wondered if he was looking up at that same moon, far away, and thinking of me as I was thinking of him.

Vera Brittain

#10. Sometimes in this life you have to take risks on other people.

Zadie Smith

#11. And I certainly like being on a plane, next to a stranger, having conversations that you'd never otherwise have. You're unplugged, your phone doesn't work, you're not online.

Jason Reitman

#12. Formal education and current position can define your worthiness. What makes you extraordinary is defined by your attitude towards others.

Ashish Patel

#13. Never ask who's right. Start out by asking what is right. And you find that out by listening to dissenting, disagreeing opinions.

Peter Drucker

#14. I despaired at the thought that my life might slip by without seeing God show himself mightily on our behalf.

Jim Cymbala

#15. I suppose, in the end, we journalists try - or should try - to be the first impartial witnesses of history. If we have any reason for our existence, the least must be our ability to report history as it happens so that no one can say: 'we didn't know - no one told us.

Robert Fisk

#16. I know nothing more stupid and indeed vulgar than wanting to be right.

Paul Valery