All forms of violence, especially war, are totally unacceptable as means to settle disputes between and among nations, groups and persons.
Artists disbelieve and dispute society's most cherished notions.
Simply put, the most powerful state is the one that prevails in a dispute.
A nation, therefore, has no right to say to a province: You belong to me, I want to take you. A province consists of its inhabitants. If anybody has a right to be heard in this case it is these inhabitants. Boundary disputes should be settled by plebiscite.
In case of dispute, the umpire shall throw it straight into the field.
Unconditional war can no longer lead to unconditional victory. It can no longer serve to settle disputes. It can no longer concern the Great Powers alone. For a nuclear disaster, spread by wind and water and fear, could well engulf the great and the small, the rich and the poor, the committed and the uncommitted alike. Mankind must put an end to war--or war will put an end to mankind.
Some men, at the approach of a dispute, neigh like horses.
There can be no scientific dispute with respect to faith, for science and faith exclude one another.
The way to silence religious disputes is to take no notice of them.
Much indeed to be regretted, party disputes are now carried to such a length, and truth is so enveloped in mist and false representation, that it is extremely difficult to know through what channel to seek it. This difficulty to one, who is of no party, and whose sole wish is to pursue with undeviating steps a path which would lead this country to respectability, wealth, and happiness, is exceedingly to be lamented. But such, for wise purposes, it is presumed, is the turbulence of human passions in party disputes, when victory more than truth is the palm contended for.
Life begins to happen. My hoppped up husband drops his home disputes, and hits the streets to cruise for prostitutes
Conversation succeeds conversation, Until there's nothing left to talk about Except truth, the perennial monologue, And no talker to dispute it but itself.
I regret exceedingly that the disputes between the protestants and Roman Catholics should be carried to the serious alarming height mentioned in your letters. Religious controversies are always productive of more acrimony and irreconcilable hatreds than those which spring from any other cause; and I was not without hopes that the enlightened and liberal policy of the present age would have put an effectual stop to contentions of this kind.
Most true points are fine points. There never was a dispute between mortals where both sides hadn't a bit of right.
It is better to be silent, than to dispute with the Ignorant.
Extremes to the right and to the left of any political dispute are always wrong.
Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.
The reason academic disputes are so vicious is that so little is at stake.
He who loves does not dispute: He who disputes does not love.
It is a splendid thing to have the use of any gift of God. It isn't for us to choose again, or wonder and dispute, but just work in our own places, and leave the rest to God.