John D. Rockefeller Quotes

As we dread any disease that undermines the health of the body, so should we deplore contention, which is a corroding canker of the spirit.

I am not anyone's enemy.

I do remember the whole thing as being very argumentative, hot blooded... a permanent state of friction between Jon and Chris, Chris and me, me and Jon.

Opposition is not necessarily enmity; it is merely misused and made an occasion for enmity.

Rivalry doesn't help anybody.

You don't want to make an enemy of Piers Morgan.

I don't have beef with nobody.

I want to manufacture a feud.

I don't like conflict.

People have created feuds between me and other artists.

There is no overt rivalry among our children.

He makes no friends who never made a foe.

Humans are one another’s enemies

We have rivals, implacable rivals who constantly oppose the influence which we already exert. They strive to frustrate us in every way possible.

The way to make friends quarrel is to pit them in disputation under the public eye ... public assemblies where every one is free to speak and act, are the most powerful looseners of the hands of private friendship.

Conflicts are never health for anybody.

It's our tendency to approach every problem as if it were a fight between two sides. We see it in headlines that are always using metaphors for war. It's a general atmosphere of animosity and contention that has taken over our public discourse.

My concern is that contention is becoming accepted as a way of life.

You're gonna know, if I have beef with somebody, then one of us is just falling out.

I've seen teammates who wanted to choke each other.

I don't have any beef with any rapper.

When we describe human relations, we usually make them better than they are: gentle, peaceful, and so forth, whereas in reality, they are often competitive.

The one thing that always sucks about me is that I'm just a fighter, and I just love to fight.

You can't pick a fight with anyone doing something with your sound.

To me, there's no point in having confrontation for the sake of it.