Quotes About Conflict

There were times when the blessings of education appeared a little over-rated, since it seemed only to enable the nations to quarrel with greater fluency in some modern Tower of Babel.

that there was no moderate middle because the moderate middle are made up of shopkeepers, not soldiers.

The new post-Saddam Iraq had no secular heros.

When a person says "No" and really means it, he or she is doing far more than saying a word of two letters. The entire organism—glandular, nervous, muscular—gathers itself together into a condition of rejection.

Peleando no se consigue jamás lo suficiente, pero cediendo se consigue más de lo que se espera.

Better give your path to a dog than be bitten by him in contesting for the right. Even killing the dog would not cure the bite.

Here is one of the most surprising facts about the Civil War: Lee believed that slavery was wrong, and had freed his own negroes long before the conflict came; but Grant's wife owned slaves at the very time that her husband was leading the armies of the North to destroy slavery.

Recordemos el viejo proverbio: "Peleando no se consigue jamás lo suficiente, pero cediendo se consigue más de lo que se espera".

No man who is resolved to make the most of himself,' said Lincoln, 'can spare time for personal contention.

Paige stays grumpy and I end up frustrated.

Seeing things through another person's eyes may ease tensions when personal problems become overwhelming.

This is why no argument is ever won. You lose the argument, you lose. You win the argument, you lose.

If we know we are going to be rebuked anyhow, isn't it far better to beat the other person to it and do it ourselves

If you disagree with them you may be tempted to interrupt. But don't. It is dangerous.

I have listened to, engaged in, and watched the effect of thousands of arguments. As a result of all this, I have come to the conclusion that there is only one way under high heaven to get the best of an argument - and that is to avoid it. Avoid it as you would avoid rattlesnakes and earthquakes. Nine times out of ten, an argument ends with each of the contestants more firmly convinced than ever that he is absolutely right.

Even if I had convinced him that he was wrong, his pride would have made it difficult for him to back down and give in.

Ahora estoy convencida de que no puede lograrse nada bueno, y sí puede hacerse mucho daño, si uno le dice directamente a una persona que está equivocada. Sólo se consigue despojar a esa persona de su autodignidad, y uno queda como un entrometido.

Everything that is in agreement with our personal desires seems true. Everything that is not puts us into a rage.

If I send this letter, it will relieve my feelings, but it will make Meade try to justify himself. It will make him condemn me. It will arouse hard feelings, impair all his further usefulness as a commander, and perhaps force him to resign from the army.

Yacen aquí los despojos de un pobre viajero. Murió defendiendo su derecho de paso: Razón le sobraba, estaba en lo justo, lo cierto. Mas tan muerto está como si hubiera errado.

La crítica es inútil porque pone a la otra persona a la defensiva, y por lo común hace que trate de justificarse.

PRINCIPLE 1 The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it.

Arguing with another person will rarely get you anywhere;

Tensions on both sides are already high