Quotes About Conflict

President Kennedy was willing to go to war. He was not a coward. The man had been in war and so had Ken O'Donnell. He was ready to protect this nation, but he was not ready for a military solution just because it was being rammed down his throat.

Conscience is what hurts when everything else feels good.

Polemical, conflicting, attention-grabbing headlines like these are the mainstay of the media. And with good reason. It isn't truth that grabs our brains. It is certainty. It isn't balanced, considered analysis that captures our attention. It is bold and confident assertion.

When we think that we are separate, we put ourselves in constant conflict, trying to get ours, always in fear of losing what we have, alienating others whom we use for our selfish purposes, lying and cheating to make sure that we aren't left behind.

We have failed to see that total peace can be as deadly as total war.

Trying to kill your own father, dueling with a clone of yourself, serving the Dark Side for the Emperor. If that's what it takes to be a powerful Jedi, maybe I don't want the job!

I had my boy in Boston on Easter Sunday. That kills me, from a sports perspective. He's a Boston baby and I'm a New York guy.

As American as an apple is and as American as baseball is, they don't go together. You can't be chewing an apple at a baseball game. You've got to let go of the diet that day.

Anger is not the proper response to anger. When you see someone angry you are seeing their pain. Compassion is the proper response to anger.

for every expert there is an equal and opposite anti-expert.

Seeing our world through technology's eyes has, for me, illuminated its larger purpose. And recognizing what it wants has reduced much of my own conflict in deciding where to place myself in its embrace. This book is my report on what technology wants. My hope is that it will help others find their own way to optimize technology's blessings and minimize its costs.

You are! You're staring at me and accusing me!" She thew down her tea. "But I didn't kill my only child, Kyle, bury him in the dirt floor of the basement and construct an elaborate fantasy world! No, I did not!

5 Tips to Keep Your Sails out of Your Teenager's Wind Don't take things personally. Stay calm. Listen, but don't fight your teenager's battles. Offer helpful suggestions only when asked. Don't tell your teenager what to do.

What's in Your Rule Book? What is a great evening to you? How did your parents resolve conflict? If you had an hour to do anything, what would you do? Name 3 things married people should never do. What would really disappoint you about someone you love?

lies drive a wedge between who you really are and who you act like you are, and the greater the distance between those two, the greater the dissonance in your life will be.

Fascism, as Ortega y Gasset says, is always 'A and not A'.

Well Australia's been in Afghanistan from the get go, way back in 2001, but we have been resolute throughout and with support from both sides of Australian politics.

But he's happy to draw the distinctions between us. Within minutes of learning about our common conflict zones he tells me, without a whiff of irony, "I hate journalists." "Get in line," I tell him. It's not like I haven't heard the sentiment before.

Killing is the ultimate refutation of our own humanity.

More often than not, a hero's most epic battle is the one you never see; it's the battle that goes on within him or herself.

What He really hates is the shit that gets carried out in his name. Wars. Bigotry. Televangelism. - Rufus, Dogma

I don't hate you 'cause I'm crazy... I'm crazy 'cause I hate you.

I went through a period of great rebellion within my family, when I was about 9 or 10. I was mad, I had no focus, had no real interest in anything, and so I started to do things that were just rebellious and stupid.

In the political war the enemy presents itself in its true colors. It is much harder to discern the enemy in the cultural war.