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Quotes About Quarrel

the workingman, being selfish, wants all he can get in the division. The capitalist, being selfish, wants all he can get in the division. When there is only so much of the same thing, and when two men want all they can get of the same thing, there is a conflict of interest between labor and capital. And it is an irreconcilable conflict. As long as workingmen and capitalists exist, they will continue to quarrel over the division.
~ Jack London
Their quarrel was no more surprising than are most quarrels — inevitable at the time, incredible afterwards.
~ E. M. Forster
Among the privileges of being a superpower, the right and the ability to make a local quarrel into a global one ranks very high.
~ Christopher Hitchens
Perhaps nothing destroys a political system more quickly and efficiently than paranoia. The situation can be grave enough when one party to a quarrel believes the worst of the other, when it pictures its opponents as conspirators. But when both sides see the other as ruthless, treacherous, and unwilling to abide by the rules, then all room for compromise disappears.
~ T.J. Stiles
When people think, rightly or wrongly, that marriage is forever, they are stimulated to seek and find a resolution, a modus vivendi, whenever they quarrel.
~ Zygmunt Bauman
If you cannot prove a man wrong, don't panic. You can always call him names.
~ Oscar Wilde
A quarrelsome man deserves no honors.
~ Nachman of Breslov
Among the privileges of being a superpower, the right and the ability to make a local quarrel into a global one ranks very high.
~ Christopher Hitchens
I have often wondered, that persons who make a boast of professing the Christian religion, namely, love, joy, peace, temperance, and charity to all men, should quarrel with such rancorous animosity, and display daily towards one another such bitter hatred, that this, rather than the virtues they claim, is the readiest criterion of their faith.
~ Christopher Hitchens
One ought not to quarrel with the aim of impartiality. It is just that, as an objective, it is harder to attain than its advocates imagine.
~ Christopher Hitchens
Apart from work, he didn't need an outside stimulus, except that curious one of picking a quarrel. It was in hostility that his being fulfilled itself. As a soldier should be, he was sudden and fierce in quarrel.
~ L.P. Hartley
Let all of us, though we are separated, remain socialists. Despite everything, let us remain brothers, brothers separated by a quarrel which is cruel but which is, nonetheless, a family quarrel, and whom a common hearth may some day reunite.
~ Leon Blum
Such a fuss ofer a few mundanes." Mrs Dark chuckled and moved to stand beside her sister, so that Will, with his blazing sword, was between Tessa and both ladies. "We have no quarrel with you, Shadowhunter, unless you choose to pick one. You have invaded our territory and broken the Covenant Law in doing so. We could report you to the Clave-" "While the Clave disapproves of trespassers, oddly, they take an even darker view of beheading and skinning people. They're peculiar that way," Will said
~ Cassandra Clare
When there is only so much of the same thing, and when two men want all they can get of the same thing, there is a conflict of interest between labor and capital. And it is an irreconcilable conflict. As long as workingmen and capitalists exist, they will continue to quarrel over the division. If you were in San Francisco this afternoon, you'd have to walk. There isn't a street car running. Another strike?* the Bishop queried with alarm. *
~ Jack London
Next to coming to a good understanding with a new mistress, I love a quarrel with an old one.
~ George Etherege
We don't think that we are in a quarrel with anybody. We may have a difference of opinion, but we'll not allow such differences of opinion to grow into a problem that stands in the way of reconstructing the country and regaining the democratic path.
~ Rafik Hariri
Sir, I have quarrelled with my wife; and a man who has quarrelled with his wife is absolved from all duty to his country.
~ Thomas Love Peacock
Though a quarrel in the streets is a thing to be hated, the energies displayed in it are fine; the commonest man shows a grace in his quarrel.
~ John Keats
There is no such test of a man's superiority of character as in the well-conducting of an unavoidable quarrel.
~ Henry Taylor
War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle.
~ Thomas Carlyle
Originality is a thing we constantly clamour for, and constantly quarrel with.
~ Thomas Carlyle
War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle; therefore they take boys from one village and another village, stick them into uniforms, equip them with guns, and let them loose like wild beasts against one other.
~ Thomas Carlyle
wars can be traced to a scuffle between a man and a boy, both of whom summon aid to their respective sides.
~ Norman Davies
I cannot help feeling there is something essentially wrong about love. Friends may quarrel or drift apart, close relations too, but there is not this pang, this pathos, this fatality which clings to love. Friendship never has that doomed look. Why, what is the matter? I have not stopped loving you, but because I cannot go on kissing your dim dear face, we must part, we must part.
~ Vladimir Nabokov