Social Disagreement Quotes

Between two groups of people who want to make inconsistent kinds of worlds, I see no remedy but force.

As long as you make your own decision and do thing because it feels good to you, there will always be people who agree and people who don’t.

I understood, not with my intellect but with my whole being, that no theories of the rationality of existence or of progress could justify such an act; I realized that even if all the people in the world from the day of creation found this to be necessary according to whatever theory, I knew that it was not necessary and that it was wrong. Therefore, my judgments must be based-on what is right and necessary and not on what people say and do; I must judge not according to progress but according to my own heart.

I've been having problems with the right wing lately.

People have different concepts of the good life, and any attempt to impose one favored view will be contentious.

People regard the same things, some as just and others as unjust, - about these they dispute; and so there arise wars and fightings among them.

There is a war between the ones who say there is a war and the ones who say there isn't.

I'm like, 'Would you be the person in the room that would boo when Dylan went electric? I know I wouldn't. Or are you the person that left The Beatles after 'She Loves You,' or 'Drive My Car?' You weren't on board for 'Revolution 9' or 'Day In The Life,' were you?'

I love the police, contrary to many people.

We need a better way to talk about eating animals. We need a way that brings meat to the center of public discussion in the same way it is often at the center of our plates. This doesn't require that we pretend we are going to have a collective agreement. However strong our intuitions are about what's right for us personally and even about what's right for others, we all know in advance that our positions will clash with those of our neighbors. What do we do with that most inevitable reality? Drop the conversation, or find a way to reframe it?