Disputes Quotes - Page 17

• We should evaluate judges and judicial nominees based on the general process for applying the law to any legal disputes, not on the specific result in a particular case or dispute.

  Orrin Hatch

  Law, Judging, Process

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• Our courts provide a neutral forum for the adjudication of disputes under the law, not based on economic or political power, on race, on sex or any other personal characteristics.

  Jon Kyl

  Sex, Race, Law

  Jon Kyl's opening statements at the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing on judge Samuel Alito's nomination to the Supreme Court, www.washingtonpost.com. January 9, 2006.

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• We've got people in the Republican Party that just believe that if you just cut taxes for corporations, and that you have more trade, and we just bring in more people from abroad, that this is going to help the average guy. Well, it's not. I mean, this is an honest dispute. We're going to have a dispute about it. The American people agree with [Donald] Trump and I agree with Trump on those things.

  Jeff Sessions

  Party, Believe, Mean

  "Full transcript: POLITICO's Glenn Thrush interviews Sen. Jeff Sessions". www.politico.com. May 31, 2016.

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• We'll have a national dispute - debate about it, and the goal should be to bring in - to help respectfully appeal to those voters that can make the difference, the ones who are not going to be entrepreneurs, are never going to be - run a - be a CEO in some big business, and they know it, but they would like to have their Social Security, they would like to have Medicare as they paid for all their years, and they'd like rising wages rather than falling wages.

  Jeff Sessions

  Running, Fall, Years

  Source: www.politico.com

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• I don't have children that I've lost in a bitter custody dispute. But I see an enormous wound in kids due to a lack of their dads.

  Warren Farrell

  Dad, Children, Kids

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• History, to be above evasion or dispute, must stand on documents, not on opinions.

  Lord Acton

  History, Opinion, Documents

  Lord Acton (2016). “Lectures on Modern History: Great Event”, p.16, VM eBooks

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• I find it expressed in various passages of Scripture that the fact that God knows things while in a state of possibility, when their existence belongs to the future, does not change the nature of the possible in any way; that nature remains unchanged; and the knowledge of the realisation of one of several possibilities does not yet effect that realisation. This is likewise one of the fundamental principles of the Law of Moses concerning which there is no doubt nor any dispute.

  Maimonides

  Law, Doubt, Principles

  "Guide for the Perplexed". Book Maimonides, Ch.20, 1190.

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• There is a dispute about the existence of God. Both sides try to hide that they killed Him - even before He came into being.

  Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

  Atheism, Trying, Sides

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• You live in a society that is shaped in every possible way by the Bible. The language you use, the laws you obey (and disobey), the founding principles of your nation, the disputes about abortion, homosexuality, adultery - these and so much else in your world are rooted in the Bible. You don't have to read it for its truth value. You should read it to understand how your world got the way it is, the way you would read the constitution or Shakespeare.

  David Plotz

  Law, Abortion, Use

  "Biblically Speaking". Online chat, www.slate.com. March 4, 2009.

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• Our current gun culture simply ensures that more and more domestic disputes will end in the ultimate tragedy, and that more convenience-store confrontations over loud music coming from a car will leave more teenage boys bloodied and dead... What I believe is, if he [Belcher] didn’t possess/own a gun, he and Kasandra Perkins would both be alive today... Handguns do not enhance our safety. They exacerbate our flaws, tempt us to escalate arguments, and bait us into embracing confrontation rather than avoiding it.

  Bob Costas

  Teenage, Believe, Gun

  "In KC, it’s no time for a game" by Jason Whitlock, www.foxsports.com. December 1, 2012.

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• The familiarities of the gaming-table contribute very much to the decay of politeness ... The pouts and quarrels that naturally arise from disputes must put an end to all complaisance, or even good will towards one another.

  Mary Wortley Montagu

  Gambling, Decay, Tables

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• Some men at the approach of a dispute neigh like horses. Unless there be an argument, they think nothing is doing. Some talkers excel in the precision with which they formulate their thoughts, so that you get from them somewhat to remember; others lay criticism asleep by a charm. Especially women use words that are not words,--as steps in a dance are not steps,--but reproduce the genius of that they speak of; as the sound of some bells makes us think of the bell merely, whilst the church chimes in the distance bring the church and its serious memories before us.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Horse, Memories, Distance

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• Only a work democracy can create the foundation of genuine freedom. Long experience in sociological disputes leads me to expect that a great many people will take offense at the disclosure of this miscalculation. It makes the highest demands on people's will to veracity; it puts a heavy burden on everyday living; it places all social responsibility on those who work, be it in the factory, in the office, on the farm, in the laboratory, or wherever.

  Wilhelm Reich

  Responsibility, Long, People

  "The Mass Psychology of Fascism". Book by Wilhelm Reich, 1933.

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• 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.

  George Washington

  Wise, Country, Party

  George Washington, Jared Sparks (1836). “The Writings of George Washington: Being His Correspondence, Addresses, Messages, and Other Papers, Official and Private, Selected and Published from the Original Manuscripts; with a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations”, p.40

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• Could we forbear dispute, and practice love, We should agree as angels do above. Where love presides, not vice alone does find, No entrance there, hut virtues stay behind: Both faith, and hope, and all the meaner train, Of mortal virtues, at the door remain. Love only enters as a native there, For born in heav'n, it does but sojourn here.

  Edmund Waller

  Angel, Doors, Practice

  "Of Divine Love". Poem in six cantos by Edmund Waller (circa 1686); later published in "A Complete Edition of the Poets of Great Britain", Volume IV, 1792.

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• In disputes upon moral or scientific points, ever let your aim be to come at truth, not to conquer your opponent. So you never shall be at a loss in losing the argument, and gaining a new discovery.

  James Burgh

  Loss, Discovery, Opponents

  James Burgh (1816). “Of prudence”, p.38

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• However we may flatter ourselves to the contrary, our friends think no higher of us than the world do. They see us through the jaundiced or distrustful eyes of others. They may know better, but their feelings are governed by popular prejudice. Nay, they are more shy of us (when under a cloud) than even strangers; for we involve them in a common disgrace, or compel them to embroil themselves in continual quarrels and disputes in our defense.

  William Hazlitt

  Eye, Thinking, Clouds

  William Hazlitt (2008). “Liber Amoris and Related Writings”, Carcanet Press

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• Nobody disputes that cheap natural gas would be a good thing for the economy. The question is, is this a sustainable new development that can be counted on for decades to come, or simply a 'bubble' brought on by a land grab and drilling frenzy?

  Jeff Goodell

  Land, Would Be, Development

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

  Ambrose Bierce

  Agency, Civilized Nations, Might

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.102, University of Georgia Press

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• One has to realize that the powerful industrial groups concerned in the manufacture of arms are doing their best in all countries to prevent the peaceful settlement of international disputes, and that rulers can achieve this great end only if they are sure of the vigorous support of the majority of their peoples.

  Albert Einstein

  Country, Powerful, Support

  Albert Einstein (2011). “The World As I See It”, p.37, Open Road Media

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• Just definitions either prevent or put an end to disputes.

  Nathanael Emmons

  Justice, Definitions, Ends

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• It has been asserted, that a moral Atheist would be a monster beyond the power of nature to create: I reply, that it is not more strange for an Atheist to live virtuously, than for a Christian to abandon himself to crime! If we believe the last kind of monster, why dispute the existence of the first?

  Pierre Bayle

  Christian, Atheist, Believe

  Pierre Bayle (1826). “An Historical and Critical Dictionary”, p.169

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• Our Twentieth Century has proved to be more cruel than preceding centuries, and the first fifty years have not erased all its horrors. Our world is rent asunder by those same old cave-age emotions of greed, envy, lack of control, mutual hostility which have picked up in passing respectable pseudonyms like class struggle, radical conflict, struggle of the masses, trade-union disputes.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Struggle, Class, Our World

  Alexandr Solzhenitsyn's Nobel lecture in literature delivered only to the Swedish Academy, www.nobelprize.org. 1970.

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• 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.

  Thomas Reid

  Philosophy, Party, Issues

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• This is not a dispute about whether planning is to be done or not. It is a dispute as to whether planning is to be done centrally, by one authority for the whole economic system, or is to be divided among many individuals.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Done, Planning, Economic

  "The Use of Knowledge in Society" by Friedrich Hayek, American Economic Review, September 1945.

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