Unanimity Quotations

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

But doing what I do, you will never get unanimity of people.

What we need to do in this PC world is forget about unanimity of speech and unanimity of thought and we need to concentrate on being respectful of those people with whom we disagree.

From our side of the table, there was absolute unanimity on federalization, and we're going to write the law,

There is, I am convinced, a very strong majority if not unanimity among the senators that the president should not be allowed to exit this situation without some kind of formal notice being taken of his behavior.

It (Britain) forgets that unanimity is required to adopt the statement and subsequently unanimity for Turkey's negotiating framework

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

Unanimity is the mistress of strength.

What's striking is the near unanimity of many of the opinions and attitudes expressed by these businesses.

The science is settled; it's not even a consensus, it is a unanimity that human life begins at conception.

A couple of years ago we were hearing from studios that maybe we should wait on high-definition DVD because we didn't want to hurt (regular) DVD. There is a unanimity that the time for high-definition DVD is now.

Temperament, conviviality, moderation and the ability to get along with your colleagues are as important as ideology, ... was able to achieve unanimity on the most important decisions of his era simply by encouraging his fellow justices to live in the same boarding house, and discussing cases over glasses of Madeira.

There is overwhelming unanimity that we must act in this fashion if we are to keep our economy strong.

I hope the regulators understand by now there is, I think, unanimity on this committee that they should experiment, they should be flexible, they should do everything reasonable to get money into people's hands because people need money to eat and to live and because that's the way we're going to bring the economy back,

The near unanimity of this assessment among countries is remarkable in public opinion polling.

The entire Jewish community is mobilized. There is unanimity of opinion on the value of these trips from a public policy position.

The coalition has reunited itself because of Iraqi behavior, ... We believe that there's strong unanimity and consensus on the council that Iraq's behavior has been unacceptable.

Accepting unanimity as a rule for decision-making means no decision will be taken. The right of veto spells deadlock for the union,

It's less important to have unanimity than it is to be making the right decisions and doing the right thing, even though at the outset it may seem lonesome,

They have all agreed with this direction. There is unanimity amongst those parties and ourselves that this is the direction to take.

We certainly are hoping for unanimity among the five permanent members. But unanimity or not, we are prepared to move forward.

It is idle to await unanimity.

Unfortunately, unanimity is not always feasible.