Quotes About Conflict

Descubrir un sistema para evitar la guerra es una necesidad vital para nuestra civilización, pero ningún sidtema tiene posibilidades de funcionar mientras los hombres sean tan desdichados que el exterminio mutuo les parezca menos terrible que afrontar continuamente la luz del día.

No man need fear that by making himself rational he will make his life dull. On the contrary, since rationality consists in the main of internal harmony, the man who achieves it is freer in his contemplation of the world and in the use of his energies to achieve external purposes that is the man who is perpetually hampered by inward conflicts. Nothing is so dull as to be encased in self, nothing so exhilarating as to have attention and energy directed outwards.

Între teologie ÅŸi ÅŸtiin?? exist? îns? un No Man's Land, expus atacurilor din ambele p?rÅ£i; acest teritoriu intermediar este cel al filozofiei.

In the welter of conflicting fanaticisms, one of the few unifying forces is scientific truthfulness, by which I mean the habit of basing our beliefs upon observations and inferences as impersonal, and as much divested of local and temperamental bias, as is possible for human beings.

A great many of the impulses which now lead nations to go to war are in themselves essential to any vigorous or progressive life. Without imagination and love of adventure a society soon becomes stagnant and begins to decay. Conflict, provided it is not destructive and brutal, is necessary in order to stimulate men's activities, and to secure the victory of what is living over what is dead or merely traditional.

Democracy, as a form of government, has the advantage of making everybody a participant in war... This is one of the strongest reasons for expecting democracy to survive.

After ages during which the earth produced harmless trilobites and butterflies, evolution progressed to the point at which it has generated Neros, Genghis Khans, and Hitlers. This, however, I believe is a passing nightmare; in time the earth will become again incapable of supporting life, and peace will return.

Seducing highborn ladies, and raping peasant girls was a lark, but when Piers had suggested murder, he had thought him simply struggling with the frustration of losing for the first time in his life.

To venture ... close (to a lion) on foot ... would mean the sudden shattering of any kindly belief that the similarity of the lion and the pussy cat goes much beyond their whiskers. But then, since men still live by the sword, it's a little optimistic to expect the lion to withdraw his claws, handicapped as he is by his inability to read our better effusions about the immorality of bloodshed.

The days that marked the war went on like the ticking of a clock that had no face and showed no time.

Change is often perceived as chaos and not always won peacefully.

I don't know about you and your brother. I don't give a shit about your goddamn brother. That's your problem, and I'm not eating your pain.

He wasn't even going to get them to apologize to you!" Kara fumed. "He was just going to ignore you, like you weren't hardly even involved. But you told him, Maddy! You told him just fine!" "Yeah?" asked Maddy, glancing at her. "Yeah," said Kara, her voice punching the air.

Raymond, through some curious alchemy of his own, had come really to think a divorce was something you could win, as opposed to a situation in which the wounded attempt to contain loss. She once said to her friend Annie, "It's like fighting over who gets the litterbox after the cat is dead. Raymond has forgotten we ever had a cat; he actually wants the litterbox. Full." She said Annie had laughed and then Martha cried

Meanness at church sometimes exceeds anything that occurs in secular surroundings.

I looked at his hand, my insides wrenched and wrestling with wanting and not wanting to hold it. I'd held the dying hands of perfect strangers. But only strangers are perfect. It's the known ones that muddle.

They saw a large crowd around them and scribes disputing with them… . He asked, "What are you arguing with them about?" Mark 9:14, 16

We resist offering ourselves wholly to anyone or anything that has the potential to encroach on our personal desires, and Jesus made clear from the start that God's will and ours would be in conflict at times. Yet our surrender to Jesus is also ultimately our surrender to joy.

These are opposed to each other, so that you don't do what you want. But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law. Galatians 5:17–18

Out of the same mouth come blessing and cursing. My brothers, these things should not be this way. James 3:10

Opposition is anything that opposes (1) us, (2) the work God desires to do in us, and (3) the work God desires to do through us.

If we keep fighting our own inner battles. We'll never have the strength to stand up and fight our true enemy.

and place the result out there. I believe that, but in this case I just can't do it. The contents of these pages are so important to me that I desperately

I see a different law in the parts of my body, waging war against the law of my mind. Romans 7:23