Quotes About Contention

Propriety and single interest divides the people of a land and the whole world into parties and is the cause of all wars and bloodshed and contention everywhere

Doors are for those who lack enemies.

I reject the federal contention that there exists an overwhelming national security crisis at the southern border, along which are some of the safest communities in the country.

I've always known that I had the happy facility of making enemies of any one I ever knew

You seem to be very good at making enemies.

You don't want to make an enemy of Piers Morgan.

The Book of Mormon exposes the enemies of Christ. It confounds false doctrines and lays down contention.

The government should, as a matter of policy, forbid the building of any more places of worship. We have more than enough of them. The government should never permit the use of public parks or open spaces for religious gathering, and if a place of worship becomes a bone of contention or happens to be misused by undesirable elements, it should simply take it over.

Now, why did he have a hard time believing that?...Because it would be the first time in your life that you ever won an argument with Lord Thick and Knotty Pate. (Morgan)

The adversary system is a kind of warfare in mufti.

No deals with the Tories; it's war.

Parties on the back of Parties, at war with the world and with each other.

When you look at the history of wars, they ultimately revolve around one claim: "My god is better than yours."

Argument is the worst sort of conversation.

One side charges, 'You are decadent.' The other side retorts, 'We are free.' These are not opposing contentions; they're nonsequiturs.

As we dread any disease that undermines the health of the body, so should we deplore contention, which is a corroding canker of the spirit.

The man who ain't got an enemy is really poor.

I don't think nationalism is alone holding the field; it's in contention with a lot of different things.

The right, indeed, is indestructible. Warsaw can no more be Tartar than Venice can be Teutonic. Kings waste their energies in that contention, and lose their honour. Sooner or later the submerged nation rises again to the surface; Greece is still Greece and Italy, Italy... The theft of a people can never be justified. These august swindles have no future. A nation cannot be shaped as though it were a pocket handkerchief.

pero ¿no era aquello lo que hacían las religiones? Mirarse con desconfianza unas a otras y afirmar: «Mi creencia indemostrable es mejor que tu creencia indemostrable. Chúpate esa».

If you want to make a man hate you fiercely and forever, prove to him something he does not wish to believe.

Every year, our white intruders become more greedy, exacting, oppressive, and overbearing. Every year, contentions spring up between them and our people, and when blood is shed, we have to make atonement, whether right or wrong, at the cost of the lives of our greatest chiefs and the yielding up of large tracts of our lands.

It's not that I mind fighting with Trump's cheer squad... it's that it's so rarely a fair fight.

Better make a weak man your enemy than your friend.