Top 248 Disputes Quotes & Sayings

Wherever arms flow, violence follows. Bullets replace ballots as the solution to political disputes.

Backs dialogue for solving disputes and not military power and threats.

Controversial disputes are a part of democratic culture.

No one disputes Iran's destabilizing influence in the Middle East or role in killing Americans.

When it comes to disputes before the World Trade Organization, we generally win.

The courts of this country should not be the places where resolution of disputes begins. They should be the places where the disputes end after alternative methods of resolving disputes have been considered and tried.

No one disputes that online businesses offer much more variety than their analog counterparts.

We believe in resolving all disputes peacefully.

Treaties, agreements and organizations to help settle disputes may be necessary, but they often favor the interests of business over citizens.

Life begins to happen. My hoppped up husband drops his home disputes, and hits the streets to cruise for prostitutes

In private life I never knew anyone interfere with other people's disputes but he heartily repented of it.

There is no shortage of disputes.

GUNPOWDER, n. An agency employed by civilized nations for the settlement of disputes which might become troublesome if left unadjusted.

Disputes among natural philosophers are of use to science, as the quarrels of the great, and the clamors of the little, are necessary to freedom of thought and the advancement of learning.

We need to educate our young people about the dangers of gun violence and that there are real consequences for solving disputes with guns.

Talk is over-rated as a means of settling disputes.

All forms of violence, especially war, are totally unacceptable as means to settle disputes between and among nations, groups and persons.

During the Cold War, America took sides not only in disputes between Arab countries, but also in debates within them.

I will not resolve a land dispute if civil groups or politicians are involved in the land disputes.

Arguments are too much like disputes.

We have to get it into our heads once and for all that we cannot settle disputes by eliminating human beings.

I don't think that any economist disputes that we're in the worst economic crisis since the great depression. The good news is that we're getting a consensus around what needs to be done.

We find sects and parties in most branches of science; and disputes which are carried on from age to age, without being brought to an issue. Sophistry has been more effectually excluded from mathematics and natural philosophy than from other sciences. In mathematics it had no place from the beginning; mathematicians having had the wisdom to define accurately the terms they use, and to lay down, as axioms, the first principles on which their reasoning is grounded. Accordingly, we find no parties among mathematicians, and hardly any disputes.

There will always be disputes between nations which, at times, will inflame the public and threaten conflicts, but the main thing is to educate the people of the world to be ever mindful that there are better means of settling such disputes than by war.

It can be argued - and rightly - that Taiwan is not just another regional issue: after all, the Chinese regard it as part of China. But Taiwan is also a regional issue for three reasons. First, the overthrow or even the neutering of democracy in Taiwan, which is what Beijing effectively demands, would be a major setback for democracy in the region as a whole. Second, if the Chinese were able to get their way by force in Taiwan, they would undoubtedly be tempted to do the same in other disputes. And third, there is no lack of such disputes to provoke a quarrel.

You know how much I am inclined to explain all disputes among philosophical schools as merely verbal disputes or at least to derive them originally from verbal disputes

As the ANC, we have got to condemn violence as a method of addressing our differences and disputes amongst us.

Talk is over-rated as a means of settling disputes

The reason academic disputes are so vicious is that so little is at stake.

No one disputes that seeming order can come out of the application of simple rules. But who wrote the rules?

The traditional disputes of philosophers are, for the most part, as unwarranted as they are unfruitful.

The way to silence religious disputes is to take no notice of them.

The grand schemes of liberation, however indistinct and amorphous, can quickly be compromised, consumed by petty disputes and local hatreds.

We can prevent fighting by limiting weapons or finding nonviolent ways to end disputes.

If your stomach disputes you, lie down and pacify it with cool thoughts.

As marriage produces children, so children produce care and disputes; and wrangling.

The avowed policy of non-co-operation has been not to make political use of the disputes between labour and capital.

The existence of such an [international Islamic] army rules out the superpowers' interference in disputes among Muslim countries.

Gratitude creates the most wonderful feeling. It can resolve disputes. It can strengthen friendships. And it makes us better men and women.

Issues related to investor-state disputes are a matter of serious concern. It is something which we have to apply our minds to.

Capitalism, in its imperialist phase, is a system which considers war to be a legitimate instrument for settling international disputes, a legal method in fact, if not in law.

Leaders will have to give clear and decisive leadership towards a world of tolerance and respect for difference, and an uncompromising commitment to peaceful solutions of conflicts and disputes.

It is our belief that nations should embrace dialogue and peaceful settlement of disputes instead of rushing to arms, for suffering and bloodshed will ensue.

If Muslims want to take their disputes to religious arbitrators because they genuinely believe that it's a matter of great spiritual importance that they do that, they shouldn't be the only community in this country that's denied the opportunity to do that. Because the Jewish population has been entitled to take their disputes to tribunals known as the Beth Din for over one hundred years, and the Church of England is integrated into the fabric of this country, and there are ecclesiastical tribunals where religious disputes can be dealt with.

The Singaporean government, which represents legal migrant workers in employment disputes and claims of exploitation, requires that they stay in the country until the disputes are settled. If they leave, their claims are closed.

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.

I am Switzerland. I refuse to be affected by territorial disputes between mythical creatures.

We call upon all warring parties in the world to lay down their arms and pursue the path of peace, dialogue, and inclusive resolution of disputes.

Labour opposes the principle of companies having their own private and privileged courts in which to settle investor-state disputes.

I don't want to crawl over the entrails of past disputes.

You know, I'm a father. I'm a brother. I'm a son. And I'm a grandfather. So many times I have to be the intermediary, the person to referee and help solve disputes and to protect and to guide.

Only by addressing the root causes of conflict and disputes can we hope to find lasting peace in a just and equitable world.

I cannot think the disputes and jealousies of Heaven are tried and settled by the swords of earth.

The ballot box is the surest arbiter of disputes among free men.

Electoral victory is not an end in itself. It is intended to set in motion a pluralist process to resolve our disputes and move the country forward.

You know how much I am inclined to explain all disputes among philosophical schools as merely verbal disputes or at least to derive them originally from verbal disputes.

Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.

In disputes, be not so desirous to overcome as to not give liberty to each one to deliver his opinion and submit to the judgment of the major part, especially if they are judges of the dispute.

Just definitions either prevent or put an end to disputes.

We should have a great fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves.