Larry Hogan Quotes

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

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.

We can argue and we can disagree, but we don’t need to poke our fingers in each other’s eyes in order to get our points across.

There is a way to disagree with someone, but it doesn't have to be threatening.

It's always very important that you can completely disagree with someone, but it doesn't fundamentally mean that they are bad people.

Avoid sarcasm. Don't insist on the last word.

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.

It is natural to have differences and still remain friends.

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.

I have disagreements with some and more agreements with others. But that doesn't mean I cannot listen to those I disagree with.

You can disagree without being disagreeable.

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

I don't believe that using inflammatory rhetoric on either side of a debate is productive.

It's a very important thing to learn to talk to people you disagree with.

It's impossible to go through life not offending people. All you have to do is basically have an opinion on anything, and you're gonna offend people.

You can tell if someone is about social intercourse or just about browbeating somebody with their opinion. It's no fun arguing with a closed-minded person.

I am totally down with disagreement. I don't like Haterade, but disagreement is wonderful. When someone disagrees, we try to reach common ground. That's good.

Maybe Larry Kings cannot thrive or even survive in a world where the norms for discourse are rage, vehemence and character assassination. King wanted to be liked, not feared; admired, not loathed.

Let us not become so intense in our zeal to do good by winning arguments or by our pure intention in disputing doctrine that we go beyond good sense and manners, thereby promoting contention, or say and do imprudent things, invoke cynicism, or ridicule with flippancy.

I'd rather lose an argument than get into a long discussion in order to win it.

It's not necessary with your friends to discuss something you know you will disagree profoundly on.

To disagree, one doesn't have to be disagreeable.

Civility is not not saying negative or harsh things. It is not the absence of critical analysis. It is the manner in which we are sharing this territorial freedom of political discussion. If our discourse is yelled and screamed and interrupted and patronized, that's uncivil.