Opposing Viewpoints Quotes

When two opposite points of view are expressed with equal intensity, the truth does not necessarily lie exactly half way between. It is possible for one side simply to be wrong.

Argument is to me the air I breathe. Given any proposition, I cannot help believing the other side and defending it.

There are people who disagree with the left, and that will not be tolerated. People who disagree with them, whether they are high judges, whether they are prosecutors, whether they are average ordinary every day citizens, it will not be tolerated.

You must force yourself to consider opposing arguments. Especially when they challenge your best loved ideas.

A good story should provoke discussion, debate, argument...and the occasional bar fight.

When I went on Fox News people asked me why I was going on those shows. Are you kidding? You have to go, especially to people you don't agree with.

In the sports world it's all about argument. It's all about having a hot take. The other person has to have the polar opposite opinion, and you bash them together. To me it is an outlier to have a conversation be the basis of why you are listening.

Inside many liberals is a totalitarian screaming to get out. They don't like to have another point of view in the room that they don't squash and the way they try to squash it is by character assassination and name calling.

I believe in freedom of expression, I don't believe in censorship.

Arguments are too much like disputes.

How come nobody wants to argue with me? Is it because I'm always so right?

For every expert there is an equal and opposite expert.

The courage of one's opinions is always a form of calculating cowardice in the eyes of the "other side.

Dissension is healthy, even when it gets loud.

I think it's fair to say that [Donald Trump] and I are sort of opposites in some ways.

If everybody loves you, something is wrong. Find at least one enemy to keep you alert.

Complete liberty of contradicting and disproving our opinion, is the very condition which justifies us in assuming its truth for purposes of action.

You get so tired of political correctness. I'm noted for speaking out all my career.

You may be wrong, but you may be right.

We are not sure we are right until we have made the best case possible for those who are wrong.

When men are brought face to face with their opponents, forced to listen and learn and mend their ideas, they cease to be children and savages and begin to live like civilized men. Then only is freedom a reality, when men may voice their opinions because they must examine their opinions.

The biggest gains come from associating with people u DONT agree with!

I like the free-speech stuff, the political-correctness stuff.

My dad and I get into it all the time. He loves to discuss politics much more than I do and we have pretty heated conversations.

In opposing we always talk about freedom in the Western world, Muslims always talk about justice. Very often we mean the same thing. But what we do mean, what in the Western world we call human rights, in the Islamic world, they don't talk about rights. Now they do, but in the past they didn't. It wasn't part of their terminology. But really it's the same thing.