Quotes About Conflict

In many two-parent families, one parent is primarily disposed toward imposition of adult will (convinced that more authority would get things squared away), and the other is primarily disposed toward just letting things go (having become convinced that more authority is only making things worse and that family peace is more important than compliance).

history has taught them that disagreements are always handled using Plan A.

In schools, as in homes, there's a tendency to work on the hot-button problem that precipitated a challenging episode on a particular day. But because unsolved problems wax and wane, the hot-button unsolved problem that was the focal point on one day is often replaced by a different hot-button unsolved problem the next.

There's an excellent video of full-class Plan B on the Lives in the Balance website.

INFLEXIBILITY + INFLEXIBILITY = MELTDOWN

As George Russell defined a literary movement: "Five or six men who live in the same town and hate each other.

Es que no hay forma de decir en voz alta que se puede odiar a alguien por morirse, como yo la odio a ella

prayer is in significant part about resolving conflict and rivalry. If people prayed seriously they would be reconciled.

He couldn't fit the two things together. It gave him a jagged, unfinished feeling, like the first pinprick of heartbreak, a tiny pointed lance of light beaming on something you can't bear to see, can't bring yourself to look at, can't look away from.

The Cherokee Nation took a case against Georgia to the US Supreme Court. With Chief Justice John Marshall writing for the majority, the Court ruled in favor of the Cherokees. Jackson ignored the Supreme Court, however, in effect saying that John Marshall had made his decision and Marshall would have to enforce it if he could, although he, Jackson, had an army while Marshall did not.

You're suffocating me! I hate you! Hate!

from the Stone Age on, the weapons of war and the chase have been interchangeable, and one activity has been a preparation and training for the other. In modern war we learn to kill each other at great distances and on a scale which actually threatens the life of our own species. In intervals of peace we proceed to turn the technology so developed … against the lower animals.

The use of violent or oppressive means to solve problems is a common feature in both instrumental and idealistic evil. There is an important difference, however, and that is the extent to which the ends justify the means.

The myth of pure evil, then, is surprisingly durable and elastic. Even when each side provokes and antagonizes the other, the myth can be invoked. Ironically, the myth fails to acknowledge mutual provocation, but it appears that both sides in a conflict are quite capable of seeing themselves as innocent victims and the other as unreasonably, gratuitously wicked.

By practicing Moderation they violate another of Franklin's virtues, Justice. The result of conflicting goals is unhappiness instead of action, as the psychologists Robert Emmons and Laura King demonstrated in a series of studies.

An anarchist society is not one free of conflict. It is a society in which the resolution of such conflicts is not monopolized by an elite.

Los claros clarines de pronto levantan sus sones, su canto sonoro, su cálido coro, que envuelve en su trueno de oro la augusta soberbia de los pabellones. Él dice la lucha, la herida venganza, las ásperas crines, los rudos penachos, la pica, la lanza, la sangre que riega de heroicos carmines la tierra; de negros mastines que azuza la muerte, que rige la guerra.

Verdugos de ideales afligieron la tierra, En un pozo de sombra la humanidad se encierra Con los rudos molosos del odio y de la guerra.

Society reproduces itself antagonistically.

The germ of creation lies in violence.

Why are they like that?" I asked Cico. We skirted Blue Lake and worked our way through the tall, golden grass to the creek. "I don't know," Cico answered, "except that people, grown-ups and kids, seem to want to hurt each other—and it's worse when they're in a group.

Four things greater than all things are, - Women and Horses and Power and War.

Boots—boots—boots—boots—movin' up and down again!There's no discharge in the war!

When Pack meets with Pack in the Jungle, and neither will go from the trail,Lie down till the leaders have spoken—it may be fair words shall prevail.