Quotes About Conflict

The test of good education is seeing how it behaves in a fight.

Learned researches lead to headaches, constipation, and befuddled quarreling.

Reasoning is the pastime of my whole household, and all this reasoning has driven out Reason.

To avoid having bad things happen, learning to manage your anger and to actually share how you really feel about something, and get it behind you is one of the most important aspects of growing up.

Those who hate lawyers, have either hired the wrong one and lost, represented themselves and lost, or had such a bad case that no lawyer could win it.

Legal action is but warfare disguised.

Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.

Silence is argument carried out by other means.

Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.

As an artist I have always tried to be faithful to my vision of life, and I have frequently been in conflict with those who wanted me to paint not what I saw but what they wished me to see.

Nationalism: One of the effective ways in which the modern man escapes life's ethical problems.

The line of life is a ragged diagonal between duty and desire.

Everybody you fight is not your enemy and everybody who helps you is not your friend.

Life is a constant oscillation between the sharp horns of dilemmas.

Let me say to begin with: It is not neurotic to have conflict ... Conflicts within ourselves are an integral part of human life.

Life is a zero sum game.

your antagonist is a hero in their own mind... p.192

Cultural indigestion, I tell you, the gripe in the bowels of your spirit.

wasn't. This stutter-step of disaster after natural disaster was just a blip next to LED lights, driverless cars, a possible end to poverty through gene-edited crops. Mulled wine and stockings over the fireplace. Crisp smell of the six-foot fir that had been cut down so it could be adorned with plastic and glass baubles that polluted the house. As the tree died in celebration, there in our family room. Maybe I was withdrawn during their

fighting the same savage battles with the giant rabbits for each other's carrion

There had never been a time when all the people everywhere lived in peace. No one had ever had a lasting peace without ignoring atrocity or history, which meant it wasn't lasting at all. Which meant we were an irrational species.

he considered mankind a race of crazy half-monkeys, intent upon suicide.

Silence creates its own violence.

Kentucky made no decision adverse to this right of a State, but she declared, in the impending conflict between the States seceding from and those adhering to the Federal Government, that she would hold the position of neutrality.