Quotes About Conflict

I justified it in so many ways. I had a very, very long and difficult struggle with my sexuality.

Religious power, which, as I have already said, frequently identifies itself with political power, has always been a protagonist of this bitter struggle, even when it seemingly was neutral.

One of the main destructive forces within our family has been these runaway egos. I think if you look at any show business family, that struggle exists.

My wife says I'm only comfortable when there's a fight. And it's true. The thing that motivates me is struggle.

No one could understand the bond between me and my brother. I struggled to understand the forces that drove his soul in one direction and mine in another.

I always struggled with the idea of forgiving my enemies.

We have our insides and our outsides, and I find the struggles between the two, as well as the occasions of harmony between the two, fascinating.

What do you do when you get a draft notice and you think a war is wrong? And I struggled with that for months prior to my being inducted into the army, and I'm still struggling with it, 40 years later.

Inside of many liberals is a fascist struggling to get out.

As equality increases, so does the number of people struggling for predominance.

It's always interesting to see somebody struggling with two different sides of their personality.

All the knowing ones were consulted as to the issue, and they all agreed, to a man, in one of two opinions: either that Bob would flog Billy, or Billy would flog Bob.

Negotiation means getting the best of your opponent.

Never interrupt your opponent when he's destroying himself.

Negotiating means getting the best of your opponent.

The game is a war, and in a war you fight. My opponent is just the director of the opponent's army.

One of the golden rules of politics is that if your opponent is attacking you personally then they are rattled.

I think it's important to be up front with where you differ with your opponent and be ready to take that on.

You cannot choose your opponents.

If I always fought dominating my opponents without being hit back some times there would be no fun in it. That's the fun part, to have a war, there has to be a war.

I think it's really important to find out why people hurt you or try to oppose you or whatever.

It felt very fresh to me, and it feels very contemporary - this idea that conflict's not being about good and evil and not necessarily being black and white. If you dig deep enough, you'll often find that people do things because they feel that they have to as opposed to because they are evil.

There are quite a few disgruntled Greenpeacers who are opposed to its policy of non-cooperation.

There's often a big difference between business considerations as opposed to the business of the heart.