Civilized Quote by Adam P. Knave

“The norm which the society at large has set today categorically is in the form of preventive measures to be clasped within the purview…

— Henrietta Newton Martin

“Great feuds often need very few words to resolve them. Disputes, even between nations, between peoples, can be set to rest with simple acts…

— Alexander McCall Smith

“When a public quarrel is envenomed by private injuries, a blow that isn't mortal or decisive can be productive only of a short truce…

— Edward Gibbon

Medieval justice was a quaint thing.

— Frederick Pollock

“With a little more patience and a little less temper, a gentler and wiser method might be found in almost every case; and the…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

We who feel that justice is not being done have but one thing to do: that is fight, by argument, by example, by insistence…

— Theodore Dreiser

“And yet, Lacedaemonians, you still delay, and fail to see that peace stays longest with those, who are not more careful to use their…

— Thucydides

“Fighting is healthy. If everyone has too much reverence for each other, or for the material, results are invariably underwhelming. It’s irreverence that makes…

— Robert Evans

“Disputes that were secular in origin, such as the Arab-Israeli conflict, have been allowed to fester and become “holy,” and once they have been…

— Karen Armstrong

I saw in the whole Christian world a license of fighting at which even barbarous nations might blush. Wars were begun on trifling pretexts…

— Hugo Grotius

“For in politics, as in religion, it is equally absurd to aim at making proselytes by fire and sword. Heresies in either can rarely…

— Alexander Hamilton

Through the centuries, men of law have been persistently concerned with the resolution of disputes in ways that enable society to achieve its goals…

— Archibald Cox