Quotes About Conflict

Without such rules, there are no exchanges of ideas, only exchanges of set positions and insults. People who disagree rapidly move from talking over one another to shouting one another down, and from expressing their opinions on the matter at hand to expressing their opinions of the intelligence and morality of those who disagree with them.

You are mad!" she snapped, her chest heaving. "And you are a devil!" "And you, my dear," Royce imperturbably replied, "are a bitch." With that, he turned to the horrified friar and unhesitatingly announced, "The lady and I wish to be wed.

No the cat we had to leave. It was not Protestant. But the dog, seeing no future for the Reformed Religion in France, was happy enough to go.

Buddhist nun Pema Chödrön warns against what she insightfully terms "idiot compassion"—using kindness to avoid conflict when a resounding "no" is required. I completely agree. To preserve our emotional freedom, we must know where to draw the line.

Buddhist nun Pema Chödrön warns against what she calls "idiot compassion," using kindness to avoid conflict when a definite no is required. There's a right time to give and a right time to say no.

Sometimes violence cannot be stopped no matter what we do. But the more peaceful we are, the better chance we have of bringing out the peace in those around us.

If it were left to men, there'd be nothing in the world but mating and squabbling.

It's only when you love him that you hate him.

Ah, now she knew what divorce really was. Sharing decisions with a person you would run down on the street.

Baby, I was in a war. Of course I get it. That's where all the bad in the world comes from. Guys who like being mean. I was that guy once. We were all that guy, for at least a minute. We had to be.

My heart has yet to betray me, but my mind, sharp as it is, does it constantly.

At the bottom of all patriotism there is war: that is why I am no patriot.

We have regressed to the times of the wars of religion; divided, betrayed, threatened if we do not think as the others think or if we refuse to use the same formulas and cry the same watchwords. And tomorrow, ready to kill each other in the name of free will. Refusing to consider the realities he finds disagreeable, each adversary blinds himself with his own convictions and no longer considers those that might help him to comprehend the problem.

Es gibt immer eine Lösung, die alle glücklich macht. Die muss gefunden werden. Nicht aus Menschenliebe, sondern aus Vernunft. Größtmögliche Zufriedenheit bringt den größtmöglichen Nutzen. Auch wenn manche Leute zur Zufriedenheit gezwungen werden müssen.

Deutschland" war der Name eines Systems, in dem es nur darum ging, was wem gehörte und wer woran die Schuld trug. Jola war Deutschland. Sie kam von dort und würde dorthin zurückkehren. Theo und sie hatten ein Stück Kriegsgebiet mit auf die Insel gebracht.

Plato takes the phenomenon of psychological conflict, being torn between two options, to show that the person so torn is not really a unity; he is genuinely torn between the motivational pull of two or more distinct parts of the soul.

the argument goes, the same thing can't be thus affected in opposing ways at the same time, so it must be that it is not the person as a whole who is in this contradictory state, but different parts of him which do the pulling in opposite directions.

Insults are the sincerest form of jealousy," I said. "So Tess and I thank you both for your correct perception of the inevitable.

We didn't speak, and a beautiful, sweet evil grew between us.

Ever noticed how sisters, when they aren't best friends, make particularly vicious enemies? -I See You Everywhere

He couldn't bring himself to kill me. That shocked me more than his threats. I didn't know what to say to him.

And nevertheless, no, I have nothing to say to them, to my parents. Nothing. Nothing and everything, as always. If I tried – out of boldness, through luck, or in distress – to share with them some of the violence that causes me to be so totally on my own, they would not know where I am, who I am, what it is, in others, that rubs me the wrong way.

Hay momentos en la vida es los que la única manera de salvarse a uno mismo es muriendo o matando

yo sentía un vacío en el estómago, sentía asco de mí mismo por haber perdido durante la lucha la conciencia de que en el combate, enfrente de mí, había otro hombre.