Quotes About Contention

Two-thirds of all the strifes, quarrels, and lawsuits in the world arise from one simple cause-money.

But sure there is need of other remedies than dreaming, a weak contention of art against nature.

Woman is the daughter of falsehood, a sentinel of hell, the enemy of peace.

Whoever keeps an open ear For tattlers will be sure to hear The trumpet of contention.

When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest.

The fault of opposition", he remarked, "is a determination to make differences where few exist and those trifling.

money has no essence. It's not "really" anything; therefore, its nature has always been and presumably always will be a matter of political conten­tion.

Opposing one species of superstition to another, set them a-quarreling; while we ourselves, during their fury and contention, happily make our escape into the calm, though obscure, regions of philosophy.

I say unto you, be one [live in harmony; be united in righteousness; avoid contention]; and if ye are not one ye are not mine.

My God is better than your God

Oh my God, I don't think you can say anyone looks forward to controversy.

I've never known of Wal-Mart to be a good neighbor in any town it's ever moved into.

History is an argument without end.

I would spend my nights at home but if it means contention. I'd rather be alone tell the service man cut the phones.

Now, it is my contention that the deneuroticization of humanity requires a rehumanization of psychotherapy.

Throwing acid is wrong... in some people's eyes.

Society reproduces itself antagonistically.

To judge from the conduct of the opposite parties, we shall be led to conclude that they will mutually hope to evince the justness of their opinions, and to increase the number of their converts by the loudness of their declamations and the bitterness of their invectives.

What dire offence from am'rous causes springs, What mighty contests rise from trivial things,...

I hate competition.

mechanism. In their slow evolutionary ascent, proto-humans 'found' in this mechanism a 'tool' for controlling the mimetic escalations of interspecific violence, when imitation (stronger in humans than in animals) diffuses dynamics of reciprocal contention and revenge in a given social group.

It were endless to dispute upon everything that is disputable.

My near'st and dearest enemy.

Thy head is as full of quarrels as an egg is full of meat.