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Quotes About Conflict

Fear has silenced the voice of truth in your world, and this is the anguish with which you struggle.
~ Pat Rodegast
Elise, you're taking this too seriously. We're men. If we have a problem, we punch one another. It's just how we handle things.
~ K.M. Shea, The Wild Swans
There are three kinds of big endings: Revenge. Tragedy. Forgiveness. Revenge and Tragedy often happen together.Forgiveness unblocks the future." (p.225)
~ Jeanette Winterson
The sooner the jihadis go up to their imagined #heaven, the sooner our earth would be a heaven.
~ Fakeer Ishavardas
Still humanity is in her infancy, so often we engage in fighting to destroy ourself.
~ Debasish Mridha
Over the course of time this gave us a deep respect for ideas, both our own and those of others, and an understanding that conflict through debate is a powerful means of revealing truth.
~ Robert B. Laughlin
Every religion in the world has denounced every other religion as a fraud. That proves to me that they all tell the truth - about others.
~ Robert Green Ingersoll
When truth takes a backseat to ego and politics, trust is lost.
~ Patrick Lencioni
When team members trust each other and know that everyone is capable of admitting when they're wrong, then conflict becomes nothing more than the pursuit of truth or the best possible answer.
~ Patrick Lencioni
In every argument there is a discovery of truth and a bed of success.
~ Auliq Ice
The truth is considered hatred by those who hate the truth.
~ Auliq Ice
In time of war, truth is always replaced by propaganda.
~ Charles Lindbergh
..the most dangerous animal in a zoo is Man.
~ Yann Martel, Life of Pi
Her maktul katilinde yaÅŸamaya devam eder.
~ Elif Shafak
Understanding is a three edged sword: your side, their side, and the truth.
~ J. Michael Straczynski
I will never compromise Truth for the sake of getting along with people who can only get along when we agree.
~ D.R. Silva
Jumping to his feet, Titus crossed the room and gazed with awe at the antagonists. He was no stranger to violence, but there was something peculiarly horrible about this duel. There they were, not thirty feet away, locked in deadly grapple, a conflict without scale. In that camel were all the camels that had ever been. Blind with a hatred far beyond its own power to invent, it fought a world of mules; of mules that since the dawn of time have bared their teeth at their intrinsic foe.
~ Mervyn Peake
The day after we returned from Iorn Fist I woke up and I want either one of them anymore. Somewhere in between a girl I thought was long dead and a woman that was too blood thirsty for me to particularly like. But I thought about all that had happened the day before and decided that I liked being alive. So I wanted to than you for not letting me die.
~ Michael A. Stackpole
There's no place like home / So where am I?" MacKaye sings with undisguised bitterness. "I just felt so betrayed by my friends," MacKaye says, "for doing what I wanted to do, for doing what I thought was the right thing." They performed the song only once, at their first show after reuniting. Afterward Baker and Preslar heaved handfuls of change at the audience.
~ Michael Azerrad
In the Middle East, no one gets credit for a preemptive cringe.
~ Michael B. Oren
The secretary quoted the Middle Eastern axiom, "The enemy of my enemy is my friend," to which Netanyahu replied—"acidly," according to Gates—"No, in the Middle East, the enemy of my enemy is my frenemy.
~ Michael B. Oren
The violent tension between honor and shame, so central to Middle Eastern cultures and tragically familiar to Israel, was alien to most Americans.
~ Michael B. Oren
Being Palestinian," I said, "means never having to say you're sorry.
~ Michael B. Oren
Israel sells. Arabs massacring Arabs in, say, Syria, is a footnote, while a Palestinian child shot by Israeli soldiers is a scoop.
~ Michael B. Oren