Quotes About Conflict

There are basically two kinds of people: those who have empathy and care about others and those who don't. The ones who don't are creating most of the problems in the world.

We live in a world where terrorism has a more familiar meaning than peace.

She was his only escape, And she was his only prison.

who says love is better than hate. i feel both gives equivalent pain.

Down the road of hate, at every busted corner lurks the need for love.

There's no doubt in my mind that he wants this and that he loves you, Sam, but sometimes even the strongest feelings in our hearts can't silence the demons in our head.

The conception of two people living together for twenty-five years without having a cross word suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep

It's not so easy when you're trying to win a war against the heart

What could you do, when what threatened the ones you loved was something else you loved just as much?

Friday night's alright for fightingSaturday, Sunday, Monday tooEvery night is a night of fightingWith family and friends like you

Sometimes I help him out and sometimes he helps me out, and sometimes he tries to push me through the wall. (Dark City Lights)

Swirling in a squirrel cage of perpetual motion, the head-committee meets, argues, votes out the guidance available from emotions, and successfully keeps serenity at bay and chaos close at hand.

It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree.

Luck: when your burst of energy doesn't run afoul of someone else's.

The man who keeps calm when the other fellow gets angry has infinitely the best of the matter.

law of reversed effect, which states that whenever there is a conflict between imagination and willpower, the imagination wins.

For what is evil but good tortured by its own hunger and thirst?

Fools always fight. Wise people always Arbitrate. Because to fight is to Waste and to Arbitrate is to Save.

When you beat up someone physically, you get excercise and stress relief; when you assault him verbally on the Internet, you just harm yourself.

Men destroy each other during war, themselves during peacetime.

What is surprising is not the magnitude of our forecast errors, but our absence of awareness of it. This is all the more worrisome when we engage in deadly conflicts: wars are fundamentally unpredictable (and we do not know it). Owing to this misunderstanding of the causal chains between policy and actions, we can easily trigger Black Swans thanks to aggressive ignorance-like a child playing with a chemistry kit.

One general, Fabius Maximus was nicknamed Cunctator, "the Procrastinator." He drove Hannibal, who had an obvious military superiority, crazy by avoiding and delaying engagement.

The "persecution" of the Christians had vastly more to do with the intolerance of the Christians for the pantheon of local gods than the reverse. What we read is history written by the Christian side, not the Greco-Roman one.

There are two types of people: those who try to win and those who try to win arguments. They are never the same.