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Unanimity is always stupid.
It is idle to await unanimity.
Unanimity is the mistress of strength.
You only find complete unanimity in a cemetary.
But doing what I do, you will never get unanimity of people.
There is great unanimity among the dissolute. [Lat., Magna inter molles concordia.]
The science is settled; it's not even a consensus, it is a unanimity that human life begins at conception.
There is total unanimity that the most serious threat facing the United States and Israel is a nuclear-armed Iran.
Like all forms of collective security, multilateral sanctions require a unanimity rarely achieved in international politics.
The majority of decisions in Europe are done by unanimity. That's why it is important to be to have good relations with all parts.
Unanimity is important because it signals that the justices can rise above their differences and interpret the law without partisanship.
You see, party labels do not ensure unanimity any more than trying to cast the challenge we confront as a people through a partisan prism.
There was one issue on which there seemed to be almost unanimity: the Internet should not be managed by any government, national or multinational.
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.
Those who begin coercive elimination of dissent soon find themselves exterminating dissenters. Compulsory unification of opinion achieves only the unanimity of the graveyard.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to continually be part of unanimity.
There is no doubt that dissents can serve a useful role by explaining when a justice thinks the majority has gone off the deep end. But unanimity also sends its own powerful message - one that might be eclipsed in the headlines by a sensational dissent but could ultimately have a greater impact.
The novel is a thing of irony and ambiguity. That's at the heart of 'J', a world that has stopped arguing with itself. We have to keep our equilibrium of hate, which is argument. But on the Internet, you find a unanimity of response, and in 'J,' there's a fear of that, that discourse becomes a statement of political or ideological belief.