Quotes About Contention

The object is that which is objected against me.

A rivalry is me and James DeGale. That is ingrained in people now.

Jim Cornette and I have never really seen eye-to-eye.

The surest way to prevent seditions...is to take away the matter of them.

We live in a hell of opinions.

Trask cleared his throat noisily. "Enough with the blix-unicorn rivalry.

If I converse with a strong mind and a rough disputant, he presses upon my flanks, and pricks me right and left; his imaginations stir up mine, jealousy, glory, and contention, stimulate and raise me up to something above myself; and acquiescence is a quality altogether tedious in discourse.

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

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

Why wasn't Donald Trump invited to your party?

I speak belligerence in every language known to man.

Let us not become so intense in our zeal to do good by winning arguments or by our pure intention in disputing doctrine that we go beyond good sense and manners, thereby promoting contention, or say and do imprudent things, invoke cynicism, or ridicule with flippancy.

Christlike communications are expressions of affection and not anger, truth and not fabrication, compassion and not contention, respect and not ridicule, counsel and not criticism, correction and not condemnation. They are spoken with clarity and not with confusion. They may be tender or they may be tough, but they must always be tempered.

Dogmas of every kind put assertion in the place of reason and give rise to more contention, bitterness, and want of charity than any other influence in human affairs.

twittering among themselves in some obscure but vehement argument.

An angry discussion followed, during which belligerent ministers, who had come to the convention in an attempt to disrupt it, read aloud passages from the Bible to disprove Antoinette Brown's contention of equality. They read passages like Let your women be silent in the churches; for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but they are commanded to be under obedience, and Likewise, ye wives, be in subection to your own husbands.

The condition of man... is a condition of war of everyone against everyone

This is a war universe. War all the time. That is its nature. There may be other universes based on all sorts of other principles, but ours seems to be based on war and games.

Eminence engenders enemies.

It is our contention, to be explored later in more detail, that political defiance, or nonviolent struggle, is the most powerful means available to those struggling for freedom.

They love him most for the enemies that he has made.

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

To argue over who is the more noble is nothing more than to dispute whether dirt is better for making bricks or for making mortar.

When you see contention amongst your enemies, go and sit at ease with your friends; but when you see them of one mind, string your bow, and place stones upon the ramparts.