Andrew Haigh Quotes

Reasonable people can have differences.

Yeah, you can disagree with someone and still be cool - that's a thing!

I do think people of good will can have different opinions but still be coming not from a place of malice.

I never make the mistake of arguing with people for whose opinions I have no respect.

Our civilization is becoming less civil. You don’t have the right to demonize somebody just because they disagree with you.

It really is possible to disagree with someone's policies without hating them. Grown-ups can do that.

You can disagree without being disagreeable. That's always been my mantra.

If you have learned how to disagree without being disagreeable, then you have discovered the secrete of getting along - whether it be business, family relations, or life itself.

I have tried to maintain civil relationships with everyone I meet - and, even if I violently disagree with them, try to be respectful.

To have a liberal temperament is a kind of psychological boon, To be able to understand that someone you disagree with is not just a terrible creature but somebody with whom you disagree.

If I have my opinion about something, you have your opinion about something, we don't have to fight over it. And we can have a conversation. We can also disagree without being disagreeable, and we can just disagree, which is fine. It doesn't mean that I don't like you, or you don't like me. We just disagree.

True respect means taking other people's beliefs seriously and assuming they are adult and intelligent enough to be able to cope with it if you tell them, clearly and civility, why you think they are totally, utterly and disastrously wrong.

We may disagree on some things, but we can do so without being disagreeable.

You can like somebody without agreeing with all of their policies.

Let's not demonize people who don't happen to agree with us.

We must learn that we can disagree with each other without becoming deadly enemies.

You treat everyone with respect even though you don’t know them and even though you do not agree with them.

Try and understand--there are views other than yours.

I get very very concerned when I hear people start characterizing their opponents as stupid. I still understand that because politics is a little rough and tumble at times, but I don’t buy it and when they start calling each other either crazy or evil. You and I, we don’t compromise with crazy people or evil people. And so, I don’t think that’s helpful. Generally speaking, just because someone disagrees with you doesn’t make them crazy or evil.

I think it's important to understand people can disagree on things, and still move forward.

We all lose when bullying and personal attacks become a substitute for genuine conversation and principled disagreement.

I can understand that people who have a very different view to mine are motivated by the purest of motives. All I ask is that they might give the same benefit of the doubt to those with whom they might disagree with.

We must first listen, then speak - with humility - to genuinely hear the perspectives of those with whom we don't immediately or instinctively agree.

Everyone needs to understand that we were meant to live together in this country. We have to get to know one another; even if we don't agree, we have to enable each side to express itself.

I am tolerant. I want to understand other points of view.