A Quote by Robert Breault

Eventually you realize that not all opposing viewpoints come from people who oppose you. — © Robert Breault
Eventually you realize that not all opposing viewpoints come from people who oppose you.
Here in Canada, the people who oppose the tar sands most forcefully are Indigenous people living downstream from the tar sands. They are not opposing it because of climate change - they are opposing it because it poisons their bodies.
I think painting has that unique potential to project opposing viewpoints.
An artist is someone who can hold two opposing viewpoints and still remain fully functional.
Discussing and dissecting opposing viewpoints with others on Twitter opened up a whole new way of thinking for me.
My own experience is that the best outcomes are reached when opposing viewpoints are clearly and strongly presented before decisions are made.
Eventually you come to realize that most people aren't looking for a fight but for someone to surrender to.
Our company has built and maintained a digital forum that is the place where opposing viewpoints and those of minorities such as the LGBTQ may express themselves free from the fear of their life.
Those that regularly come into contact with people having diverse interests and viewpoints are more likely to come up with innovative ideas.
We approach Scripture with minds already formed by the mass of accepted opinions and viewpoints with which we have come into contact, in both the Church and the world....It is easy to be unaware that it has happened; it is hard even to begin to realize how profoundly tradition in this sense has moulded us.
There will certainly be times when Merkel and I will have opposing viewpoints. Just the fact that government work adheres to a different set of prerogatives than a party does makes conflicts unavoidable.
If you continue to transfer the wealth of the population of the planet to a very small amount of people, it becomes untenable at some point, a democracy, because people eventually will realize what's going on. You can only bulls - t people through kinds of media outlets for so long, and eventually you have to physically control them.
People may oppose you, but when they realize you can hurt them, they'll join your side.
In politics there is plenty of division, hostility, tribalism, posturing; but there's almost no curiosity. Instead of wondering why someone holds a certain set of beliefs and asking how they came to them, it is easier to gather a mob and silence opposing viewpoints by force.
We may eventually come to realize that chastity is no more a virtue than malnutrition.
Being against other people's policies eventually puts you in a downward spiral. It's fine to be principled and oppose views that you don't agree with, but you also have to have an alternative.
The community as a whole doesn't listen patiently to critics who adopt alternative viewpoints. Although the great lesson of history is that knowledge develops through the conflict of viewpoints.
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