Quotes about Contention
In the scriptures, 'peace' means either freedom from strife, contention, conflict, or war, or an inner calm and comfort born of the Spirit that is a gift of God to all of his children, an assurance and serenity within a person's heart.
- Joseph Wirthlin
Quarrel not at all. No man resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention. Still less can he afford to take all the consequences, including the vitiating of his temper and loss of self-control.
- Abraham Lincoln
Quarrel not at all. No man resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention.
- Abraham Lincoln
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.
- Jiddu Krishnamurti
No man resolved to make the most of himself has time to waste on personal contention.
- Abraham Lincoln
Quarrel not at all. No man resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention.
- Abraham Lincoln
On Democracies: "there is nothing to check the inducements to sacrifice the weaker party or an obnoxious individual. Hence it is that such democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and have in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths.
- James Madison
Hence it is that such democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and have in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths.
- James Madison
Two-thirds of all the strifes, quarrels, and lawsuits in the world arise from one simple cause-money.
- JC Ryle