Quotes About Contention

Politics, as a practise, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

We are domesticated animals, revolving in a cage which we have built for ourselves - with its contentions, wranglings, its impossible political leaders, its gurus who exploit our self-conceit and their own with great refinement or rather crudely.

When you can whip any man in the world, you never know peace.

Dislike is what creates rivalries.

one of the dumbest academic decisions ever made (and that is a tough list to top), Maxwell was unceremoniously laid off.

Some kind of internecine conflict, over the spoils.

I don't suppose there'll be a tree left standing, for ever so far around, by the time we're finished.'" Tweedledum to tweedledee [They are fighting over a rattle]. Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, p. 156

Difference of opinion is a clash, and to clash is a 'weakness'.

A lawsuit is to ordinary life what war is to peacetime. In a lawsuit, everybody on the other side is bad. A trial transcript is a discourse in malevolence.

One who contends with immortals lives a very short life.

There is a Spirit which I feel that delights to do no evil, nor to revenge any wrong, but delights to endure all things, in hope to enjoy its own in the end. Its hope is to outlive all wrath and contention, and to weary out all exaltation and cruelty, or whatever is a nature contrary to itself.

She hated his need to always win and he hated her coldness during their arguments. They fought about the exact color of the sky and which path they should take on a hunt. They disagreed passionately about whose fish was the best tasting. They could work up extreme hatred for each other at a moment's notice.

Sou definitivamente contra o definido, porque o definido é o bastante e o bastante não basta.

I think good books have to make a few people angry.

Nine out of ten Americans believe that out of ten people, one person will always disagree with the other nine!

But what they fought each other for,I could not well make out.

Literature is disputed territory.

For Paul, the suit against Klein could not have been richer: Lennon and company were now arguing that their May 1969 contract with Klein—the contract they tried to strong-arm Paul into signing at Olympic Studios—should be considered invalid "because they did not understand the nature and effect of it."13 They argued, too, that an amendment to that contract should be rendered invalid on the same grounds, plus misrepresentation, by Klein, of its meaning.

It was my father's contention, and it's certainly mine, that hunting is not a sport. If the animals could shoot back, then it would be a sport. It is justifiable only for food, and for no other reason. After that, it's just killing for the sake of putting a lid on what still simmers deep in our primitive hearts.

His [Ishmael's] hand will be against every man, and every man's hand against him.

interests result in direct and indirect opposition.

I know the pundits don't agree with me.

Contention existed before the earth was formed.

Sin embargo, allí estaba él, con las mismas exigencias que los otros, como si quisiera arrebatarle algo que era suyo y llevárselo en el bolsillo.