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Unanimity is always stupid. -- Nelson Rodrigues
Unanimity is the mistress of strength. -- Alphonse de Lamartine
It is idle to await unanimity. -- Robert Dale Owen
But doing what I do, you will never get unanimity of people. -- Dan Abrams
Like all forms of collective security, multilateral sanctions require a unanimity rarely achieved in international politics. -- Elliott Abrams
The science is settled; it's not even a consensus, it is a unanimity that human life begins at conception. -- Marco Rubio
Those who begin coercive elimination of dissent soon find themselves exterminating dissenters. Compulsory unification of opinion achieves only the unanimity of the graveyard. -- Robert Jackson
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
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. -- J. D. Hayworth
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.
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. -- Yehudi Menuhin
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. -- J. William Fulbright
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 being respectful of those people with whom we disagree. -- Benjamin Carson
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. -- Christopher Morley
Unfortunately, unanimity is not always feasible. -- Milton Friedman
You only find complete unanimity in a cemetary. -- Abel Aganbegyan
Where they do agree on the stage, their unanimity is wonderful. -- Richard Brinsley Sheridan
In unanimity there may well be either cowardice or uncritical thinking. -- Donald Rumsfeld
There is great unanimity among the dissolute. [Lat., Magna inter molles concordia.] -- Juvenal
The Democratic Party has always been a party that is not known for its unanimity. -- Nancy Pelosi
As a corporation, you cannot let the desire for unanimity override your obligation for fairness. -- Leo Hindery
Doctrines like Christianity or Islam or Marxism require unanimity of belief. One dissenter casts doubt on the creed of millions. -- Edward Abbey
Governments are trying to achieve unanimity by stifling any scientist who disagrees. Einstein could not have got funding under the present system. -- Nigel Calder
Those who begin coercive elimination of dissent soon find themselves exterminating dissenters. Compulsory unification of opinion achieves only the unanimity of the graveyard. -- Robert Jackson
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
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.
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 established by bayonets. -- Ludwig von Mises
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 being respectful of those people with whom we disagree. -- Benjamin Carson
As long as man remains an inquiring animal, there can never be a complete unanimity in our fundamental beliefs. The more diverse our paths, the greater is likely to be the divergence of beliefs. -- Arthur Keith

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