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Quotes About Dispute

I learned to have the patience to listen when people put forward their views, even if I think those views are wrong. You can't reach a just decision in a dispute unless you listen to both sides.
~ Nelson Mandela
Philosophy only seems to offer endless dispute, with no cakes and ale.
~ Keith Ward
Historical definition of a country's borders... "...here's where my murder geography ends and your murder geography begins, at least until I get more murderers to expand my murder-fest.
~ Stefan Molyneux
Fifty-four forty, or fight!
~ William Allen
His still refuted quirks he still repeats. New-raised objections with new quibbles meets; Till sinking in the quicksand he defends, He dies disputing, and the contest ends.
~ William Cowper
I am monarch of all I survey,My right there is none to dispute.
~ William Cowper
When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest.
~ William Hazlitt
Kalian tidak akan menembak jika kami berdiri?" "Tidak jika kami suka tampang kalian." "Ibu kalian pasti suka tampangku," gerutu Kolya.
~ David Benioff
When I look abroad, I foresee on every side dispute, contradiction, anger, calummy, and detraction, When I turn my eye inward, I find nothing but doubt and ignorance (Hume, 1739, p.312)
~ David Hume
When I look abroad, I foresee on every side, dispute, contradiction, anger, calumny and detraction. When I turn my eye inward, I find nothing but doubt and ignorance. All the world conspires to oppose and contradict me; tho' such is my weakness, that I feel all my opinions loosen and fall of themselves, when unsupported by the approbation of others. Every step I take is with hesitation, and every new reflection makes me dread an error and absurdity in my reasoning.
~ David Hume
I have long entertained a suspicion, with regard to the decisions of philosophers upon all subjects, and found in myself a greater inclination to dispute, than assent to their conclusions.
~ David Hume
Theist and atheist: The fight between them is as to whether God shall be called God or shall have some other name.
~ Samuel Butler
There is a dispute about the existence of God. Both sides try to hide that they killed Him - even before He came into being.
~ Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
An oath, sir, is an end of all strife, and it is God's ordinance.
~ Anne Hutchinson
Oh my God, I don't think you can say anyone looks forward to controversy.
~ Sonia Sotomayor
The Pashtuns in particular are kind of trapped. They've never accepted the Durand Line nor has any Afghan government historically accepted it.
~ Noam Chomsky
At the U.N., any nation that fights back is censored as an "aggressor."
~ Sam Levenson
History is an argument without end.
~ Pieter Geyl
Litigant. A person about to give up his skin for the hope of retaining his bones.
~ Ambrose Bierce
That's the beauty of argument, if you argue correctly, you're never wrong.
~ Christopher Buckley
[Truman] didn't want to fight the guy, whatever he was—alien, vampyr or douchebag.
~ J. Richard Singleton, Glyphics
A long dispute means both parties are wrong.
~ Voltaire
they don't talk at all only fight, the mother's will was unclear, Edward got a field up the Commons that William wanted to build on for the remarkable view and there followed dispute and foul play, a stream de-routed, a stream that animals drank from, Edward concluded it was his brother's dirty work
~ Edna O'Brien
Violence! Violence!
~ Edward Albee