I regret exceedingly that the disputes between the protestants and Roman Catholics should be carried to the serious alarming height mentioned in your letters. Religious controversies are always productive of more acrimony and irreconcilable hatreds than those which spring from any other cause; and I was not without hopes that the enlightened and liberal policy of the present age would have put an effectual stop to contentions of this kind.
[Letter to Sir Edward Newenham, 22 June 1792]
Tags: hatred protestants religious-violence regret catholics-vs-protestants disputes liberal-policy religious-controversy roman-catholics
No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.
Baruch SpinozaTags: disputes
and I wondered if, in the end, this is how all disputes are settled, with a shared silence as things become equal. You take something from me, I take something from you. We all want balance, one way or another.
Sarah DessenTags: disputes shared-silence
Sorry, I said to myself, wondering how many times in my marriage I'd said that, how many times I'd meant it, how many times Claire had actually believed it, and, most important, how many times the utterance had any impact whatsoever on our dispute. What a lovely chart one could draw of this word Sorry.
Ben MarcusTags: marriage relationships apologies disputes sorry
Peaceful disputes are maintained when men sincerely believe that they are morally, logically correct about the issues at hand. It is when neither side is really certain that wars are instigated.
Criss JamiTags: wisdom certainty doubt morality peace war patience faith security logic calm uncertainty conflict fighting controversy conviction battles insecurity disputes
Be leery of silence. It doesn't mean you won the argument. Often, people are just busy reloading their guns.
Shannon L. AlderTags: silence conflict games cruelty stalking angry disputes hurting painful ignoring not-caring not-listening not-communicating false-piety playing-games deceitful cruetly disrespectful fake-christianity hurting-me lashing-out not-nice passive-agressive
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