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Quotes About Dispute

Some men worship rank, some worship heroes, some worship power, some worship God, and over these ideals they dispute, but they all worship money.
~ Mark Twain
Come, agree, the law's costly.
~ Jonathan Swift
To fight is a radical instinct; if men have nothing else to fight over they will fight over words, fancies, or women, or they will fight because they dislike each other's looks, or because they have met walking in opposite directions.
~ George Santayana
It makes a difference whose ox is gored.
~ Martin Luther
I shall never be a heretic I may err in dispute, but I do not wish to decide anything finally on the other hand, I am not bound by the opinions of men.
~ Martin Luther
what I am after in this dispute is to me something serious, necessary, and indeed eternal, something of such a kind and such importance that it ought to be asserted and defended to the death, even if the whole world had not only to be thrown into strife and confusion, but actually to return to total chaos and be reduced to nothingness.
~ Martin Luther
Así te vienes como neutral 38 con intención de dirimir nuestras controversias, de detener a ambos bandos, y de hacernos creer que nos estamos peleando por estupideces y cosas inútiles.
~ Martin Luther
I have no dispute with any man concerning morals, but only concerning the word of truth. In all other things I will yield to any one, but I neither can nor will forsake and deny the word. He who thinks otherwise of me, or has taken in my words in another sense, does not think rightly, and has not taken in the truth.
~ Martin Luther
Where there's a will, there's a family fighting over it.
~ Unknown
E contra factos tudo são argumentos.
~ Mia Couto
but we know enough from the early years to see that the machinery of the law was mostly used against workers who wanted more money than employers wanted to pay. This is not surprising; if someone's offence was refusing work there was nothing to discuss. They were judged on the spot and punished until they agreed to do what was wanted. There was no need to go to the kind of court that keeps records.
~ Unknown
It was nearly incomprehensible to him that the same people—that is, the media—who had violently criticized him for saying he might dispute the election result were now calling him illegitimate.
~ Michael Wolff
The same reason that makes us chide and brawl and fall out with any of our neighbors, causeth a war to follow between Princes.
~ Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Choas errupted amoung the watchers. They didn't think it was over at all. "He cheated! He used fire!" "No, he won fairly enough!"
~ Michelle Paver
From pro's and con's they fell to a warmer way of disputing.
~ Miguel de Cervantes
But you just said, we quarrel. I suppose it's like when two grannies have a dispute, and the villagers constantly whisper in their ears about the wickedness of the other one. If the grannies want to have any peace, they have to forget everyone else and remember that they used to be friends.
~ Min Jin Lee
They were quarrelsome fellows and liked fighting so much, they even fought among themselves.
~ Unknown
A variation of Get Rich Quick schemes was robbing Peter to pay Paul, or benefiting one person at the expense of others. The origin of the phrase is open to dispute, but one account traces it to the 1500s in England, when the lands of Saint Peter's Church at Westminster were sold to fund repairs at Saint Paul's Cathedral in London.
~ Mitchell Zuckoff
I fear that, in the end, the famous debate among materialists, idealists, and dualists amounts to a merely verbal dispute that is more a matter for the linguist than for the speculative philosopher.
~ Moses Mendelssohn
not over. Any claim Eliza has on her husband's estate lies in
~ Unknown
Just definitions either prevent or put an end to a dispute.
~ Nathaniel Emmons
How horrible, fantastic, incredible it is that we should be digging trenches and trying on gas-masks here because of a quarrel in a far away country between people of whom we know nothing. It seems still more impossible that a quarrel which has already been settled in principle should be the subject of war.
~ Neville Chamberlain
The Spanish were furious with the French.
~ Unknown
Now two punctilious envoys, Thine and Mine, Embroil the earth about a fancied line; And, dwelling much on right and much on wrong, Prove how the right is chiefly with the strong.
~ Unknown