Quotes About Conflict

Making clear that there could be a negative outcome—and that you are willing to do whatever is necessary—can not only get the other person's attention but also, in some cases, increase respect for you. Being willing to fight hard for what you believe in often engenders admiration.

One of the authors, then a department head, found that this worked when a colleague was trying to manipulate and bully him (about office space); looking right at the colleague and loudly saying, "Don't mess with me, Jack. I teach negotiations!" made him back off. Jack was much nicer from then on, because he assumed his ploys wouldn't work.

In the past, whenever my logic and my instincts were in conflict, I would back my logic. Today, I back my instincts every time. Why? Because I know that my instinctive brain is many times more intelligent than my conscious brain.

America I've given you all and now I'm nothing... I can't stand my own mind. America when will we end the human war? Go fuck yourself with your atom bomb.

Shit, Violence, bullets in the brain Unavailing. We're in too deep to pull out. Waiting for an orgasm, Mr. Baldwin? Yes, waiting for an orgasm that's all.

We the People - shelling the Vietcong

America when will we end the human war? Go fuck yourself with your atom bomb

Unless Chase Bank quits I prophesy blood violence

enraptured in hypnotic war

And the Children of the Warmakers're exempt from fighting their parents' war

Mothers weep and Sons be dumb your brothers and children murder the beautiful yellow bodies of Indochina in dreams invented for your eyes by TV

Who can prophesy peace, or vow Futurity for any but armed insects

Some things were worth fighting for, but sometimes the fight was internal.

They might watch American movies, wear American clothes, even read American books but Bush and the Iraq War have made actual American people social lepers; she only has to open her mouth in some places to feel a wave of loathing directed at her. Katie is weary of pointing out that at least half her countrymen detest their President even more than Europe does, but it's no good.

As soon as two or more people are together there is inevitably conflict, even if they like and respect each other. In order to resolve those conflicts there needs to be good will on both sides, and a willingness to give and take.

War is God's way of teaching Americans geography.

Peace: A period of cheating between two periods of fighting.

Peace in international affairs: a period of cheating between periods of fighting

Litigation – A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage.

Riot – A popular entertainment given to the military by innocent bystanders.

War: A by-product of the arts of peace.

COMPROMISE, n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary the satisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and is deprived of nothing except what was justly his due.

BATTLE, n. A method of untying with the teeth of a political knot that would not yield to the tongue.

ARMY, n. A class of non-producers who defend the nation by devouring everything likely to tempt an enemy to invade.