Top Contest Quotes

There is no Situation in which Arms can get an Answer. Arms only ensure, that there would Never be an Answer.

Life is not a popularity contest.

Contest Definition

(v. t.) To make a subject of dispute, contention, litigation, or emulation; to contend for; to call in question; to controvert; to oppose; to dispute.

(v. t.) To strive earnestly to hold or maintain; to struggle to defend; as, the troops contested every inch of ground.

(v. t.) To make a subject of litigation; to defend, as a suit; to dispute or resist; as a claim, by course of law; to controvert.

(v. i.) To engage in contention, or emulation; to contend; to strive; to vie; to emulate; -- followed usually by with.

(n.) Earnest dispute; strife in argument; controversy; debate; altercation.

(n.) Earnest struggle for superiority, victory, defense, etc.; competition; emulation; strife in arms; conflict; combat; encounter.

I don't consider those competitions fair where judges get to decide the winner, because selected judges quite often are not worthy or qualified enough to make the right decision.

Science is properly more scrupulous than dogma. Dogma gives a charter to mistake, but the very breath of science is a contest with mistake, and must keep the conscience alive.

Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.

If you are a winner by the judgements of few judges and not by your performance, you are not a real winner.

I am constitutionally competent to contest the elections.