Quotes About Conflict

Jednostavno je ratovati,najteže je održati mir.

a world populated by selfish people can never know peace.

Why this relentless pull to the left and to the right, as if a path zigzagging through perilous ravines and precipitous heights were a better way? It was not a better way. He knew it, and yet the tug remained.

My belief is that our willingness to undertake the struggle within our damaged natures is the very thing that broadens and deepens our capacity to love. If all conflict is removed, if all suffering is removed, are we not left with sentiment and sensuality?

Ah yes, but unity can be authentic only if it is founded upon truth. We cannot pretend that there are two conflicting truths, both of which are right. This is madness. It destroys the interior unity of the human person and the meaning of personhood.

Why does man insist on trying to make his Utopia in the midst of a battleground?

You mean, how have we kept together all these years? With so much to separate us?" "Yes. How did you?" "Well, it wasn't always serene. But many questions do resolve themselves without words. You stand side by side for so long and have other things to fight than each other." Yes, she loved the man, her husband. But still did not know him. At least not with the knowledge of the laboratory. It was an inner kind of knowing maybe, an underdeveloped sense.

Once you've figured out the "who" side of the equation, you'll need to focus on the "what." What agendas are key stakeholders most interested in pursuing? How do their interests line up with your own, and where are they in conflict? Why are these stakeholders pursuing these agendas?

Focus on strained external relationships, and begin to repair them. Cut out redundant meetings, shorten excessively long ones, or improve problems with physical work spaces.

Party conferences can be such fun. They resemble a nest of cuckoos. Sit back and enjoy watching everyone trying to push the others out. The

To The Manager, then, The Technician becomes a problem to be managed. To The Technician, The Manager becomes a meddler to be avoided. To both of them, The Entrepreneur is the one who got them into trouble in the first place!

Where war goes on without end, all men are inevitably corrupted by its brutality -- and the worst horrors are visited upon the most innocent.

Black and white people don't merely have different experiences; we seem to occupy different universes, with worldviews that are fatally opposed to one another.

Human society has been mostly an immoral violent bedlam,

Peace needs the consent of all, while one alone may raise a war.

So there had better be a good damned reason for [war], because even if it is good, it is still damned.

You priests say to forgive your enemy, and that is well, or revenge follows revenge until eternity. But between a man who will stop at nothing, and one who will hesitate at anything, the advantage is generally to the former. The pagans had it right, too – it is a false peace to be over-forgiving.

We can bomb the world to pieces, but we can't bomb it into peace.

Rogers held that there is not one fact or piece of data that will ever make war (or even preparing for war) morally permissible.

DHL, the courier service, had already stopped delivering to the area, but would still drop off packages to war zones such as Afghanistan and Iraq.

millions of dollars have been spent over issues that could have been settled by men and women of good intentions

Blame is like ice-it freezes an issue without changing it.

And if there was one title that could be applied to all my films, it would be 'Civil War' - not civil war in the way we know it, but the daily war that goes on between us all.

Drama lives on conflict. If you're trying to deal with social issues seriously, there's no way of avoiding violence, which is so present in society.