Quotes About Contention

Men lies about that,Some of 'em cries about that,Some of 'em dies about that,Everybody fightin' about a spoonful,That spoon, that spoon, that.

It wasn't a petty squabble. It was a big squabble, in which pettiness played no small part.

With an enemy like that, who needs friends?

Contention is inseparable from creating knowledge. It is not contention we should try to avoid, but discourses that attempt to suppress contention.

I love to argue. I've always loved to argue. And I love to point out the weaknesses of the opposing arguments. It may well be that I'm something of a shin kicker. It may well be that I'm something of a contrarian.

When we classify an issue as a 'shield issue' it is usually because we feel that someone else occupies the high ground on that issue. We feel we can't win on that issue and so we adopt a defensive posture.

My concern is that contention is becoming accepted as a way of life.

I am used to controversies.

Some shows do nosedive at the end, or some piece of content could become incredibly controversial and affect the way the show is seen.

It's so easy to create a controversy.

An important work of architecture will create polemics.

There is nothing more unnatural to religion than contentions about it.

It is my contention that no other invention of man has brought greater chaos to humanity than the practice of religion.

Cela istorija je samo jedan ?ovek koji pokušava da nešto oduzme drugom ?oveku, a obi?no to jedno ne pripada nijednom od njih.

Let's contend no more, Love,Strive nor weep:All be as before, Love,—Only sleep!

Is not art then a tool we employ to peel the kitsch off life? Layer by layer art strips life bare. The more abstract it gets, the more transparent the air is. Can it be that the farther it is removed from life, the clearer art becomes? What a backwards contention it is to claim that life is more important than art! Life is good as long as it holds up to art: That in life which cannot be employed for art's sake is kitsch!

Gilbert, having tried to please both sides, succeeded, as is usual and eminently right, in pleasing neither.

The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's throat, for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as a liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty. Plainly the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of the word liberty; and precisely the same difference prevails today among us human creatures, and all professing to love liberty.

Quarrel not at all. No man resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention. Still less can he afford to take all the consequences, including the vitiating of his temper and loss of self-control.

I have often noticed that when chickens quit quarreling over their food they often find that there is enough for all of them. I wonder if it might not be the same with the human race.

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

The United States is remote, unconquerable, huge, without hostile neighbors or any neighbors at all of anything like her own strength, and lives exempt in an almost unvexed tranquility from the contentions and animosities and the ceaseless pressure and counter-pressure that distract the close-packed older world." While

The worst place to be is in the middle. When elephants fight, the grass gets trampled.

A word to those of you out there who have yet to be offended by something I have said: Please be patient. I am working as fast as I can.