I’m struck again by the irony that spaceflight-conceived in the cauldron of nationalist rivalries and hatreds-brings with it a stunning transnational vision. You spend even a little time contemplating the Earth from orbit and the most deeply engrained nationalisms begin to erode. They seem the squabbles of mites on a plum.
Campaigns and primaries can get ugly. There are always messy squabbles.
When you have a wonderful mother-in-law who takes sides with you in squabbles with her own daughter - that's something.
The world perishes not from bandits and fires, but from hatred, hostility, and all these petty squabbles.
The squabbles of philandering Zeus and shrewish Hera are the Greeks' comment on married life.
I will not meddle in America's internal political squabbles.
Power will go to the hands of rascals, rogues, freebooters; all Indian leaders will be of low calibre & men of straw. They will have sweet tongues & silly hearts. They will fight amongst themselves for power & India will be lost in political squabbles. A day would come when even air & water would be taxed in India.
Astrology furnishes a splendid proof of the contemptible subjectivity of men. It refers the course of celestial bodies to the miserable ego: it establishes a connection between the comets in heaven and squabbles and rascalities on earth.
