Quotes About Conflict

In short, favoring the Jews would offend the Arabs and their millions of Muslim supporters and create dangerous risks and turmoil in a part of the world where the United States had a substantial stake.

teaching college and high school students about the causes of past wars so they might learn to avoid the mistakes made by their predecessors.

Winnicott, I think, would have enjoyed the observation made by novelist Fay Weldon: "The greatest advantage of not having children must be that you can go on believing you are a nice person. Once you have children, you understand how wars start." All relationships

I have spoken before about the "yes" and the "no" alive in every person who seeks therapy. Listening to Pearl I heard the following: Yes, I would like to confide in you. No, that would displace my loyal family. Yes, I want to get help. No, that would prove I needed it. Yes, I want to change my life. No, I don't. All the things I do and everything I am have taken me this far.

the observation made by novelist Fay Weldon: "The greatest advantage of not having children must be that you can go on believing you are a nice person. Once you have children, you understand how wars start.

Never pick a fight you can't win, unless you're backed into a corner and don't have any choice.

Severe headaches are especially indicative of switching or internal conflicts among parts.

One common function of arguments about language is to stand in for arguments on subjects people are reluctant to broach more directly.

In 2016, protesters at London's King's College disrupted a talk by Ami Ayalon, the former head of Shin Bet, Israel's version of our FBI. Students from a pro-Palestinian group chanted, threw chairs, smashed windows, and repeatedly set off the fire alarm in the room where Ayalon was speaking about the two-state solution to the Israel/Palestine situation, which is something he strongly supports.

How ironic it is that leftist BDS supporters have adopted the tactics of right-wing McCarthyites.

This formulation rendered Judaism more than just a competing religion. It became a source of evil.

But sometimes a person who seems easy is one whose calm outside belies a troubled and turbulent inside.

Mom, you're not going to let him name him, are you? That's favoritism, and I'll be traumatized if you do.

Couples were always keen to return to the task of trying to destroy their lifelong partners while pretending to have their best interests at heart.

To not feel at home in her family home is the beginning of the bigger story of society and its female discontents.

She was constantly prying us apart, pitting us against each other. We fought out of frustration

Once again, Dr. Blake blamed us for the incident. "There's conflict in the house," she said to me, through my social worker. "Of course there's conflict!" I complained. "As long as we try to handle her there's going to be conflict. You told us to be firm!

in the book, refused to come with him. He grabbed her arm to pull her back. She struggled to get free, and in so doing pulled her arm out of its socket.

You happy you got her to run away?" "Thrilled to death," he replied bitterly as he closed the door behind her.

It is the interaction of the two styles - his withdrawal and her insistence that he tell her what she did wrong - that is devastating to both.

Many women could learn from men to accept some conflict and difference without seeing it as a threat to intimacy, and many men could learn from women to accept interdependence without seeing it as a threat to their freedom.

Smashing heads does not open minds.

Both women and men could benefit from learning each other's styles. Many women could learn from men to accept some conflict and difference without seeing it as a threat to intimacy, and many men could learn from women to accept interdependence without seeing it as a threat to their freedom.

Often, focusing on the words spoken precludes figuring out what sparked a crisis, because the culprits are not words but tone of voice, intonation, and unstated implications and assumptions.