Quotes About Conflict

He that has the Longer Sword, shall never want, either Lawyers, or Divines to Defend his Claim.

Getting angry is easy. But to get angry with the right person, in the right way, for the right reasons…that is not easy.

It is an ancient view that truth, goodness, and beauty cannot, in the end, conflict. Maybe the degeneration of beauty into kitsch comes precisely from the postmodern loss of truthfulness, and with it the loss of moral direction.

The disposition, in any conflict, to side with 'them' against 'us', and the felt need to denigrate the customs, culture and institutions that are identifiably 'ours'. Being the opposite of xenophobia I propose to call this state of mind oikophobia, by which I mean (stretching the Greek a little) the repudiation of inheritance and home.

Gustavo Solivellas dice: "Hay padres, hermanos, hijos, que salen cada día a luchar y pierden la vida en guerras alrededor del mundo. La política moderna intenta mantener esa noción del "nosotros" y "ellos" con un muro entre medio" (Roger Waters)

Love is a negative form of hatred.

With two teenagers in the house, we sometimes experience a degree of domestic turbulence that sounds, to my ear, like a boiling teakettle filled with hormones shrieking on a stove.

apologize on behalf of the world's rich and powerful, who never ended up in battle themselves, but seemed all too willing to send others off to die.

When you have known someone your whole life you don't need a lot of warm-up time to get into a big argument. All the fore-play has been done years ago, and so the battle sits in your memory like stove gas awaiting the match. A wrong word, a careless allusion, and the old fire is suddenly raging.

The significant question is whether the activity pursued permits the release of tension without resolving the underlying conflict. If so, the conflict still remains, and hence the activity must be engaged in repeatedly. We then may have the beginning of compulsion neurosis.

Fear ordinarily does not lead to illness if the organism can flee successfully . If the individual cannot flee, but is forced to remain in a conflict situation which cannot be resolved, fear may turn into anxiety and psychosomatic changes may then accompany e anxiety.

But it is well to remind ourselves that anxiety signifies a conflict, and so long as a conflict is going on, a constructive solution is possible.

the reaction is disproportionate to the objective danger because some intrapsychic conflict is involved. Thus the reaction is never disproportionate to the subjective threat.

The threat of frustration of a biological urge does not cause conflict and anxiety unless that urge is identified with some value essential to the existence of the personality.

Money follows interest, and interest is largely driven by media attention, which is more easily captured by the drama of conflict than by peace.

He gave up. It was no use. She wasn't listening. He was finding himself in a situation as old as mankind itself: reason against superstition.

Il fut donc à la fois profondément rassuré et attristé lorsqu'il atteignirent la camionnette et qu'ils purent monter et démarrer sans qu'un seul coup de feu fût tiré. C'était, par une fois, une révolution authentique et nouvelle, qui méritait de gagner et de durer, comme celle de Juan Bosch, mais qui allait perdre, parce qu'elle était trop belle. Elle allait durer ce que durent les roses.

Zijn jullie kinderen van Goethe of van Atilla voeren jullie oorlog tegen de legers of tegen de mensheid, dood de mensen maar respecteer hun werken!

Of what use are such as cannot serve! Yet these are the most innocent victims of this war. They have not taken part in it, and nothing had prepared them for such calamities.

We cannot stop the war, but we can make it less bitter. There are medicines for the body. We need medicines for the soul, to dress the wounds of hatred and vengeance by which the world is being poisoned.

O young men that shed your blood with so generous a joy for the starving earth! O heroism of the world! What a harvest for destruction to reap under this splendid summer sun! Young men of all nations, brought into conflict by a common ideal, making enemies of those who should be brothers; all of you, marching to your death, are dear to me.

it must be admitted that on neither side have they brought honor to the cause of reason, which they have not been able to protect against the winds of violence and folly.

She sent the kids again its just like the divorce

Partly because his life ended before the age of 50, Hamilton was defined by the other founding fathers, and he managed, with amazing consistency, to alienate most of them.