Quotes About Contention

The secret to success is to offend the greatest number of people.

Let my enemies devour each other

People here argue about religion interminably, but it appears that they are competing at the same time to see who can be the least devout.

What you say, Nick, strengthens my contention that only a novel can imply certain truths impossible to state by exact definition. Biography and autobiography are forced to attempt exact definition. In doing so truth goes astray. The novelist is more serious—if that is the word.

Litigious terms, fat contentions, and flowing fees.

For at any price we must keep those who have too clear a conscience from living and dying in peace.

When I think of a rivalry, I think of two drivers who butt heads.

A debate about candy bars can get heated.

Several of them would have protested if they could have found the right arguments.

All men are enemies.

I have written something to the church, but Diotrephes, who likes to put himself first, does not acknowledge our authority. So if I come, I will bring up what he is doing, talking wicked nonsense against us. And not content with that, he refuses to welcome the brothers, and also stops those who want to and puts them out of the church. (3 John 9–10)

I'm not sure everybody agrees with me. I guess a lot of people don't. We are living in a time that's as evil as any time that there has ever been.

Whiskey is for drinking; water is for fighting over.

however, Greenspan remained firmly opposed.

The left knows this is war. And

We do not argue with those who disagree with us, we destroy them

Those disputing, contradicting, and confuting people are generally unfortunate in their affairs. They get victory, sometimes, but they never get good will, which would be of more use to them.

I am apprehensive, therefore - perhaps too apprehensive - that the Government of these States may in futures times end in a monarchy. But this catastrophe, I think, may be long delayed, if in our proposed system we do not sow the seeds of contention, faction, and tumult, by making our posts of honor places of profit.

Books and harlots have their quarrels in public.

I can open up any can of worms and get people upset.

Hebron is a bone of contention between Israeli settlers and the Palestinians in part because Abraham is buried there, in the Tomb of the Patriarchs.

Erasmus of Rotterdam, a sixteenth-century priest who was committed to reforming the church from within, said, "When faith came to be in writings rather than in hearts, contention grew hot and love grew cold. That which is forced cannot be sincere, and that which is not voluntary cannot please Christ.

Europeans have quarrelled since the beginning of time.

when I see kings lying by those who deposed them, when I consider rival wits placed side by side, or the holy men that divided the world with their contests and disputes, I reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the little competitions, factions, and debates of mankind.