Quotes About Disputes

He also reserved his father's extraordinary powers, which included the right to allocate profits among partners, arbitrate disputes, fire partners, and determine a fired partner's departing share of capital. These were the trump cards in a private partnership.

Financial partnerships are combustible affairs that frequently blow up as a result of personality clashes and disputes over money.

A capitalist society requires certain preconditions. Among other things, it must establish a rule of law through enforceable contracts; respect private property; create a trustworthy bureaucracy to arbitrate legal disputes; and offer patents and other protections to promote invention

We are here to remove a primary weapon from the hands of disputant religions. That weapon—the claim to possession of the one and only revelation.

and I wondered if, in the end, this is how all disputes are settled, with a shared silence as things become equal. You take something from me, I take something from you. We all want balance, one way or another.

For a second none of us said anything, and I wondered if, in the end, this is how all disputes are settled, with a shared silence as things become equal. You take something from me, I take something from you. We all want balance, one way or another.

In private life I never knew anyone interfere with other people's disputes but he heartily repented of it.

Every State's interests play a significant role in disputes with geographical and financial prospects, wherever that exist. To be sure, expecting law and justice for that executes immaturity and crack of political knowledge and insight.

La plebe éramos nosotros. La plebe era ese disputarse la comida y el vino, ese pelearse para que te sirvieran el primero y mejor, ese suelo mugriento por el que los camareros iban y venían, esos brindis cada vez más vulgares...

Civil confusions often spring from trifles but decide great issues.

To some writers, nothing appears of so much consequence as the skillful regulation of property; because it is this much coveted object that gives birth to most disputes and most seditions.

Maybe I beef with people, but it was never random. Anybody you name, I could give you the reason why it happened or whatever led to the beef.

If we wish to substitute for war the settlement of disputes by justice, we must first substitute for the condition of international anarchy a condition of international order.

I think it's odd that grown-ups quarrel so easily and so often and about such petty matters. Up to now I always thought bickering was just something children did and that they outgrew it.

Unconditional war can no longer lead to unconditional victory. It can no longer serve to settle disputes... can no longer be of concern to great powers alone.

In short, it may be said that on paper the obligations to settle international disputes peacefully are now so comprehensive and far-reaching that it is almost impossible for a state to resort to war without violating one or more solemn treaty obligations.

By bringing about a rational drug policy, we'd be freeing up a lot of resources for real crime. Drug disputes would get played out with courts rather than with guns. So it would make this country a much better place overnight.

Y, como creía en el enfado de dos enamorados, se alejó encogiéndose de hombros y expresando de forma solapada la piedad que sentía por unos jóvenes que perdían en vanas disputas las horas que el buen Dios les ha permitido pasar en la tierra.

There will always be disputes between nations which, at times, will inflame the public and threaten conflicts, but the main thing is to educate the people of the world to be ever mindful that there are better means of settling such disputes than by war.

Since the time of Cain and Abel, family disputes have been marked by the irrational and impulsive decision of those involved, the fierce battles which ensue, and the senseless destruction they cause,

It is often supposed that those who live and work in academic or intellectual circles are above the petty disputes that vex the rest of us, but it does sometimes seem as if the exalted nature of their work makes it necessary for them to descend occasionally and to refresh themselves, as it were, by squabbling about trivialities.

The most expensive way to do business is to do it deal by deal, each of which is highly contentious.

I regret exceedingly that the disputes between the protestants and Roman Catholics should be carried to the serious alarming height mentioned in your letters. Religious controversies are always productive of more acrimony and irreconcilable hatreds than those which spring from any other cause ; and I was not without hopes that the enlightened and liberal policy of the present age would have put an effectual stop to contentions of this kind. [ Letter to Sir Edward Newenham, 22 June 1792 ]

Of Congress, party disputes and personal quarrels are the great business of the day whilst the momentous concerns of an empire...are but secondary considerations, that business of a trifling nature and personal concernment withdraws their attention from matters of great national moment.