Quotes About Conflict

the worst culprits were the ones who were secretly battling with their own feelings.

I'd tell him to go to hell, but it just so happens I'm stuck there and don't want to have to see him every day.

Opposing ideas can be simultaneously true; one reinforces the other even as they're both canceled out.

The specific line here is that you must never question Morocco's sovereignty over the Western Sahara, the land claimed in 1975 when 350,000 Moroccans marched into the then-Spanish territory, kicking off a war that lasted sixteen years and only strengthened the Moroccan government's resolve.

their hatred for and opposition to the Iranian government so great as to throw all moral conviction out the window.

He thought of Hilary's tantrums, of her vacuum-cleaner kisses, her sharp teeth and scraping hands.

Bonfire of the crazies.

If you're going to kill someone there isn't much reason to get all worked up about it and angry - you just pull the trigger. Angry discussions beforehand are a waste of time. We need to smile at Novell while we pull the trigger.

When Robert irritated men of lofty station, they complained to the President, and

I can still remember Pete Rose, on the top step of the dugout screaming, "Fuck you, Shakespeare.

Sometimes the bedsheet is a Confederate flag. I wonder how the Negro players feel about them. The worst part is that these things are hung by kids. Why the hell couldn't they let that stuff die with their grandfathers? These are not rebels who want something new. These are rebels who want to bring back the old. Doug

In America, our idea of diplomacy is showing up with a gun in one hand and a sandwich in the other and asking which you'd prefer.

The true enemy of good isn't evil, but fear. Evil will battle good, but fear will corrupt it. — a Merraban saying, quoted by Admiral Pachelbel

Isaac, tell your girlfriend she can't bring weapons into holy-shit-your-spider's-on-fire!

Those forced to make impossible choices are rarely loved. If it's approval and reputation you care about, then you have no place here.

There can be no saving of the adversary emotionally, intellectually, financially, or on any level. No. None.

We greatly enhance our opportunity for a successful deal by putting the adversary first in our mission and purpose. You make your killing—or just a solid profit—only by entering heart and soul into your adversary's world, business, needs, requirements, hopes, fears, and plans.

Making decisions based on a sense that the adversary seeks your friendship is misguided. They would much prefer your effectiveness.

The only agenda that is valid for purposes of negotiation is the one that has been negotiated with the adversary.

win-win is hopelessly misguided as a basis for good negotiating, in business or in your personal life or anywhere else.

Each story weaves together different viewpoints that-in the words of the sages-oppose one another yet are both true. These themes are the underpinnings of stories, the very motives that drive conflict, compromise, and eventual climax.

We know from our own history that democratic institutions take decades to mature, and we know from past conflicts that freedom is not free.

The thing to remember about dealing with our kids' fights is to butt out of them. Expect them to handle their squabbles themselves. This may be the toughest parenting principle to follow because kids desperately want our intervention. In fact, our intervention makes it safe for them to fight. They know we'll step in before anyone gets hurt

Trying to reason with kids who are emotionally upset is a waste of good air.