#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. ↗

— John Locke

#fewer #great #ideas #only #our

I have known war as few men now living know it. It's very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a means of settling international disputes. ↗

— Douglas MacArthur

#destructiveness #disputes #few #few men #foe

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

— Thomas Jefferson

#notice #religious #silence #take #them

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. ↗

— Sandra Day O'Connor

#alternative #been #begins #considered #country

Unfortunately, the true force which propels our endless political disputes, our constant struggles for political advantage, is often not our burning concern for democracy, it is often of our dedication to the principle of the rule of law. ↗

— Olusegun Obasanjo

#burning #concern #constant #dedication #democracy

Several studies, and a number of public statements by senior military and political personalities, testify that - except for disputes between the present nuclear states - all military conflicts, as well as threats to peace, can be dealt with using conventional weapons. ↗

— Joseph Rotblat

#conflicts #conventional #dealt #disputes #except

Lying under oath, and encouraging lies under oath, does go to the very heart and soul of what courts do. If we say we don't care, let's forget about courts, and we'll just have other ways of figuring out how to handle disputes. ↗

— Kenneth Starr

#care #courts #disputes #does #encouraging

Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

#conversation #disputes #long #marriage

I know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting. I have long advocated its complete abolition, as its very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a method of settling international disputes. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#advocated #both #complete #destructiveness #disputes

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

— James Buchanan

#arbiter #ballot #ballot box #box #disputes