Contention is inseparable from creating knowledge. It is not contention we should try to avoid, but discourses that attempt to sup...press contention.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is my contention that civil disobedients are nothing but the latest form of voluntary association, and that they are thus quite... in tune with the oldest traditions of the country.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Let the long contention cease! Geese are swans, and swans are geese. Let them have it how they will! Thou art tired; best be still....LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The making of a picture ought surely to be a rather fascinating adventure. It is not; it is an endless contention of tawdry egos, ...some of them powerful, almost all of them vociferous, and almost none of them capable of anything much more creative than credit-stealing and self- promotion.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
My wife and I lived all alone, contention was our only bone.... I fought with her, she fought with me, and things went on right merrily.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Great causes are never tried on their merits; but the cause is reduced to particulars to suit the size of the partizans, and the c...ontention is ever hottest on minor matters.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The contention that a standing army and navy is the best security of peace is about as logical as the claim that the most peaceful... citizen is he who goes about heavily armed. The experience of every-day life fully proves that the armed individual is invariably anxious to try his strength. The same is historically true of governments. Really peaceful countries do not waste life and energy in war preparations, with the result that peace is maintained.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The whole is a riddle, an enigma, an inexplicable mystery. Doubt, uncertainty, suspence of judgment appear the only result of our ...most accurate scrutiny, concerning this subject. But such is the frailty of human reason, and such the irresistible contagion of opinion, that even this deliberate doubt could scarcely be upheld; did we not enlarge our view, and opposing one species of superstition to another, set them a quarrelling; while we ourselves, during their fury and contention, happily make our escape into the calm, though obscure, regions of philosophy.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I am tired of a life of contention, and of being the personal object for the hatred of every man, who hates the present state of t...hings.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
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 the loss of self-control. Yield larger things to which you can show no more than equal right; and yield lesser ones, though clearly your own. Better give your path to a dog, than be bitten by him in contesting for the right. Even killing the dog would not cure the bite.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »