Unanimity Quotes

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.

No political party can ever make prohibition effective. A political party implies an adverse, an opposing, political party. To enforce criminal statutes implies substantial unanimity in the community. This is the result of the jury system. Hence the futility of party prohibition.

You only find complete unanimity in a cemetary.

Unanimity is important because it signals that the justices can rise above their differences and interpret the law without partisanship.

Those who begin coercive elimination of dissent soon find themselves exterminating dissenters. Compulsory unification of opinion achieves only the unanimity of the graveyard.

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.

There are certain aspects, and there are – there are 15 attributes of winners and winning slogans. “Which side are you on” sounds divisive, that you’re on one side or the other, at a time when we actually want universality. We want unanimity.

There is great unanimity among the dissolute.
[Lat., Magna inter molles concordia.]

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.

Like all forms of collective security, multilateral sanctions require a unanimity rarely achieved in international politics.

I’ve never found an important decision made by a great organization that was made at a point of unanimity. Significant decisions carry risks and inevitably some will oppose it. In these settings, the great legislative leader must be artful in handling uncomfortable decisions, and this requires rigor.

Where they do agree on the stage, their unanimity is wonderful.

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.

It is idle to await unanimity.

As a corporation, you cannot let the desire for unanimity override your obligation for fairness.

There is total unanimity that the most serious threat facing the United States and Israel is a nuclear-armed Iran.

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.

Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking.

Unanimity is always stupid.

Unfortunately, unanimity is not always feasible.

From the start, there was unanimity about my arrival at Manchester City. The coach, the executive director Garry Cook, and chairman Khaldoun al-Mubarak – I felt everyone wanted me.

I have lately obtained the opinion of a number of Chief Constables, who declare with almost complete unanimity that the recent great increase in juvenile delinquency is, to a considerable extent, due to demoralising cinematograph films.

There was one issue on which there seemed to be almost unanimity: the Internet should not be managed by any government, national or multinational.

If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn’t thinking.

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.