Quotes About Conflict

strange, there's so much religion in the world, but only enough to make us fight over who is right, not enough to make us love one another.

We didn't get along, but he convinced me we did. He made me think that I had a fear of intimacy, when in reality I just hated his goddamn guts.

yards behind the front

I mean, he told me that the shittiness of Warren having another girlfriend paled in comparison to the epic shittiness of your shitty husband

In the whole round of human affairs little is so fatal to peace as misunderstanding.

For good ideas and true innovation, you need human interaction, conflict, argument, debate

Too many problem-solving sessions become battlegrounds where decisions are made based on power rather than intelligence.

We experience problem-solving sessions as war zones, we view competing ideas as enemies, and we use problems as weapons to blame and defeat opposition forces. No wonder we can't come up with real lasting solutions!

In our daily life, we encounter people who are angry, deceitful, intent only on satisfying their own needs. There is so much anger, distrust, greed, and pettiness that we are losing our capacity to work well together.

A culture focused on individual freedom can only result in narcissism, polarization, conflict, estrangement, and loneliness. What is the meaning of life when it's all about me?

the infinite capacity of humans to wound one another without meaning or wanting to

What may seem like a reasonable way of protecting oneself can look very different from the other side of the border.

Anyone who falls into your hands falls to your sword!

Nationalist movements often overlapped with economic and class issues: Rumanian and Ruthenian peasants, for example, challenged their Hungarian and Polish landlords.

Ogni vera gioia ha una paura dentro.

Sa zadovoljstvom mislim na Andri?a...i kada bih mogao da kažem u samo jednoj re?i šta me to tera da pobegnem iz Bosne, rekao bih ti: mržnja.

La storia è un millepiedi e ogni piede tira da una parte diversa, e in mezzo c'è il nostro corpo.

Human nature is potentially aggressive and destructive and potentially orderly and constructive.

Our first and most pressing problem is how to do away with warfare as a method of solving conflicts between national groups within a society who have different views about how the society is to run.

Animosity hung between them like a two-edged sword; neither of them could use it without first getting hurt herself.

Vanity was stronger than love at sixteen and there was no room in her hot heart now for anything but hate.

That's the pattern of most subversive organization," Peter explained. "They use feelings of patriotism and loyalty to a chosen faith to stir up feelings of hate and so set one group against another.

I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good will triumph.

A world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and more dangerous for all of us.