Quotes About Contention

When you're rivals, you can never be friends.

My life is all about owning the libs now.

Race is such a contentious issue because of the painful history of racism. Race didn't create racism, but racism created race.

I don't think nationalism is alone holding the field it's in contention with a lot of different things.

Special counsel Theodore Sorensen and the president's brother Bobby were designated "intellectual watchdogs," whose job was to "pursue relentlessly every bone of contention in order to prevent errors arising from too superficial an analysis of the issues," Janis noted.

Justice departments and parole boards all over the world have accepted his contention that psychopaths are quite simply incurable and everyone should concentrate their energies instead on learning how to root them out using his PCL-R Checklist, which he has spent a lifetime refining. His was not the only psychopath checklist around, but it was by far the most extensively used.

Quarrel not at all. No man resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention.

The natural enmity between leaver and left is like the absolute, immediate and always shifting hostility between driver and pedestrian.

History is an argument without end.

Religious contention is the devil's harvest.

The pressure to define civil war is often inversely related to the political stakes for offering such a definition: the higher the pressure to be precise, the greater the chance that exactitude will itself be a source of political contention.

the meek, who suffer spoliation rather than jeopardize their souls in contention, shall inherit the earth; those that hunger and thirst for the truth shall be fed in rich abundance;

on Democracies: "there is nothing to check the inducements to sacrifice the weaker party or an obnoxious individual. Hence it is that such democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and have in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths.

Hence it is that such democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and have in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths.

We had trench warfare in America way before World War I. Most people don't know that.

No man resolved to make the most of himself, can spare time for personal contention," Lincoln was wont to say.

Veganism is a point of contention all year round. So much so that many vegans cut themselves off from the rest of society, huddling together for warmth and smugness, and using online forums to vent their disgust at the morally corrupt dairy- and meat-eating savages who make up most of the populace.

I beefed with 50 Cent for seven years.

Tengo una guerra en marcha con la Warner. Tengo una guerra en marcha con el jardinero. Tengo una guerra en marcha con un hombre que vino a arreglar el tocadiscos y arruinó dos discos LP. Tengo varias guerras en marcha con gente de la televisión. A ver quién más… oh, no importa. Usted ya conoce a Chandler. Siempre peleando por algo.

When two good men contend about principles, both are always right.

Maybe I was just born to argue with men.

Climate change is a big scam for a lot of people to make a lot of money.

Where there is money, there is fighting.

It's our contention that equity may be in the money, depending on where the liabilities lie.