Interpersonal Disputes Quotes

Contention does not usually begin as strife between countries. More often, it starts with an individual, for we can contend within ourselves over simple matters of right and wrong. From there, contention can infect neighbors and nations like a spreading sore.

The souls of emperors and cobblers are cast in the same mold...The same reason that makes us wrangle with a neighbor creates a war betwixt princes.

In every relationship, sooner or later, there is a court scene. Accusations, counter-accusations, a trial, a verdict.

When I was living in New York, there was a lot of screaming in my life. I would just get into these altercations all the time. Being in public, dealing with shopkeepers, just trying to cross the street - things like that.

You always fight with your brothers.

I love to deal with doctrines and events. The contests of men about men I greatly dislike.

When you're in a band, inevitably, someone is siding with someone else, and you're fighting over something that happened in the band five years ago.

There are only two questions that human beings have ever fought over, all through history. 'How much do you love me?' And, 'Who's in charge?' Everything else is somehow manageable. But these two questions of love and control undo us all, trip us up and cause war, grief, and suffering.

Fights between individuals, as well as governments and nations, invariably result from misunderstandings in the broadest interpretation of this term.