… two men may be as sincere, as earnest, as faithful, as uncompromising, and yet hold opinions far asunder as the poles
There's two heads to every coin.
Decisions of the kind the executive has to make are not made well by acclamation. They are made well only if based on the clash of conflicting views...The first rule in decision-making is that one does not make a decision unless there is disagreement.
My thing is this: You've got to talk about politics because it's out there. But I try to respect the fact that even if you don't have my views, I still respect your view. I may dog your view, but I'll respect that you have that view. And it's OK to come back at me to defend your view.
We're not friends - in fact, we pretty much as a rule irritate each other. But we've learnt to embrace it and use it as a strength... the other guy's always seeing something from the opposite pole.
Every fight is one between different angles of vision illuminating the same truth.
There is giant untapped potential in disagreement, especially if the disagreement is between two or more thoughtful people
My good friend, the poet Kofi Natambu, once said, "Contradiction is how we operate."
At the core, we are dealing with two parties that have fundamentally different views of the world.
There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.
Nothing in its essence is one way or the other.
Utopias and dystopias can exist side by side, even in the same moment. Which one you're in depends entirely on your point of view.
'The Princess and the Warrior' is looking at the same things as 'Lola' - just from a different angle.
In some ways the fact that you are sometimes confronted with people who have such an opposite view to you on certain issues in many ways reinforces that identity that you have.
People on both sides of any conflict believe they are right, whether it's on a TV show or in the real world.
In highly charged political matters, one person's ambiguity may be another person's truth.
I think it's best to date someone who doesn't do what you do.
To get real diversity of thought, you need to find the people who genuinely hold different views and invite them into the conversation.
To me, the most interesting films are films that take very strong points of view and bang them up against each other and let sparks happen.
Caught in the crossfire of a silent scream, where one man's nightmare is another man's dream.
There are sure to be two prescriptions diametrically opposite.
It's always fascinating - and sometimes a little disquieting - when two first-rate critics violently disagree.
You must get courageous men, men of strong views and let them debate and argue with each other.
Controversial issues are always more interesting but I don't create material about a subject I have opinion on just because it's controversial. The most fun is having a point of view that the audience is generally against and presenting an argument that challenges their thinking.
It is only by the collision of adverse opinions that the remainder of the truth has any chance of being supplied.
