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What all agree upon is probably right; what no two agree in most probably is wrong.
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Letter to John Adams (11 January 1817) This statement has been referred to as "Jefferson's Axiom".

 

Thomas Jefferson

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Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.

 

Oscar Wilde

 

Seva, love and sacrifice are the basic prerequisites for human development. If you agree with this precept, nurture goodwill towards all and help people to the best of your ability without expecting anything in return. Don’t think, ‘I will render service only when the organizers agree with me and not otherwise.’ Dear Brother! In that case, you will not be able to serve. You will only nurture your ego by making others agree with you.

 

Sant Sri Asaramji Bapu

 

I don't have as complete and overall philosophy as he does. I agree with some of the things he says. I've seen things that he said that I didn't agree with. But certainly what he says about the engineering of consent seems valid. Recently Chomsky gave a speech about what it means to oppose terrorism which I was very impressed by, because he essentially said that we should put an end to terrorism, and that includes the terrorism against the US but also the terrorism committed by the US... and I agree.

 

Noam Chomsky

 

A politician is a person with whose politics you don't agree; if you agree with him he's a statesman.

 

David Lloyd George

 

We can all agree–it has already been a measure of the debate–that Saddam Hussein is an evil tyrant with no regard for the sanctity of human life, for either his own citizens or the people of other countries. We all agree that he is in flagrant breach of a series of UN resolutions, and in particular those relating to his duty to allow the inspection, and indeed participate in the destruction, of his weapons of mass destruction. We can also agree that he most certainly has chemical and biological weapons and is working towards a nuclear capability. The dossier contains confirmation of information that we either knew or most certainly should have been willing to assume.

 

Menzies Campbell