Quotes About Conflict

In the world of judgments, our concern centers on "who is what.

Yes, I can handle your telling me what I did or didn't do, And I can handle your interpretations, but please don't mix the two.

Marshall, I wish you had taught me two years ago what you taught me this morning. I wouldn't have had to kill my best friend.

Seu principal mérito é nos ensinar a nos colocarmos no lugar do outro, desenvolvendo a empatia, que é de grande ajuda até em casos mais difíceis de ruptura e má comunicação.

All violence is the result of people tricking themselves into believing that their pain derives from other people and that consequently those people deserve to be punished.

At the core of all anger is a need that is not being fulfilled.

peace cannot be built on the foundations of fear.

Let 'em call me a racist. It don't make any difference. Whole heap of folks in this country feel the same way I do. Race is what's gonna win this thing for me.

If young George felt closer to his grandfather than to his own father, it was probably because George Wallace, Sr., was almost totally absorbed in a ceaseless, savage, losing cat-fight with life.

None of this makes sense. At best, you've spent a lot of time failing to change someone's mind. At worst, you've made an enemy, damaged a relationship, and added to your reputation for being disagreeable.

When you start a sentence with "no," "but," "however," or any variation thereof, no matter how friendly your tone or how many cute mollifying phrases you throw in to acknowledge the other person's feelings, the message to the other person is You are wrong.

We think we are in sync with our environment, but actually it's at war with us.

There is never anyone in the other boat. When we are angry, we are screaming at an empty vessel.

Never wrestle with a pig—because you both get dirty but the pig loves it

Vietnam was lost in the living rooms of America—not on the battlefields of Vietnam.

Television brought the brutality of war into the comfort of the living room. Vietnam was lost in the living rooms of America - not on the battlefields of Vietnam.

At the root of every tantrum and power struggle are unmet needs.

Every criticism, judgment, diagnosis, and expression of anger is the tragic expression of an unmet need.

If a person is argued into submission or politically subdued in one area but the underlying emotional need isn't met, he'll simply create another headache somewhere else.

Many people like people but many people don't like people who are mad and dumb

Lily, the girl who'd talked back to the jock, said, "I want to get as far away from my parents as possible. We're like potassium and water." The other kids laughed and I said, "Huh?" "If potassium comes into contact with water, it instantly combusts," Lily said slowly so if she was talking to a child.

You know, talking to you is as satisfying as smashing my fingers with a hammer.

War happens to people, one by one. That is really all I have to say and it seems to me I have been saying it forever. Unless they are immediate victims, the majority of mankind behaves as if war was an act of God which could not be prevented; or they behave as if war elsewhere was none of their business. It would be a bitter cosmic joke if we destroy ourselves due to atrophy of the imagination.

No wars, in the war-logged record of our species, have been terminal. Until now, when we know that nuclear war would be the death of our planet. It is beyond belief that any governments–those brief political figures–arrogate to themselves the right to stop history, at their discretion.