Quotes About Conflict

Through violence, you may 'solve' one problem, but you sow the seeds for another.

More courage is required to forgive than is required to take up arms.

The most difficult thing in any negotiation, almost, is making sure that you strip it of the emotion and deal with the facts.

Danger is when you are split three ways: Your soul goes one way, your mind goes another way and your body goes yet another way.

If you end up getting into a fight with someone, make sure that you win by at least half a mile.

What we agree with leaves us inactive, but contradiction makes us productive.

If you cannot close the mouth of one who reviles his brother, at least avoid conversation with him.

As water and fire oppose one another when combined, so are self-justification and humility opposed to one another.

She (Eleanor Roosevelt) got even in a way that was almost cruel. She forgave them.

Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

A merely fallen enemy may rise again, but the reconciled one is truly vanquished.

Did you ever notice how difficult it is to argue with someone who is not obsessed with being right?

One thing I will say about the Germans, they are always perfectly willing to give somebody's land to somebody else

An eye for an eye....we are all blind

Trying to negotiate getting a couple of kids to watch the same TV show requires serious diplomacy.

You have to remain cool under fire and let criticism roll off you. Good leaders handle conflict easily and bad ones are eaten up by it.

Never forget what a person says to you when they are angry.

Like all religions, Reason presents itself as the solution to the problems it has created

I'd rather fight a buzzsaw than dance.

The right things to do are those that keep our violence in abeyance; the wrong things are those that bring it to the fore.

It's true Fang and I fight, but we've never gone to bed mad. Of course, one year we were up for three months.

Everybody thinks they are right

A second way that oppressed people sometimes deal with oppression is to resort to physical violence and corroding hatred.

Is there any conflict between science and religion? There is no conflict in the mind of God, but often there is conflict in the minds of men.