330 quotes found
“If you promote peace and progress for others, I don’t think you will have sleepless nights.”
“But once I could look back on it in a calmer frame of mind, it struck me that his motive was surely not so simple and straightforward. Had it resulted from a fatal collision between reality and ide...”
“All concepts of politics, of whatever kind, are about conflict──how to contain it, or abolish it.”
“If there’s anyone we are sure to learn something from, it’s the one who pushes our buttons.”
“Our talk is right and the other person’s talk is wrong, however if a conflict occurs, then it is wrong.”
“Every period of human development has had its own particular type of human conflict---its own variety of problem that, apparently, could be settled only by force. And each time, frustratingly enoug...”
“That’s what peace is, right? Postponing the conflict until the thing you were fighting over doesn’t matter.”
“We’ve learned that sometimes a lack of conflict in a marriage means you are not fighting for it. There are times you must battle to become one.”
“It is a fact that the bitterest contradictions and the deadliest conflicts of the world are carried on in every individual breast capable of feeling and passion. [An anarchist]”
“She smells like spring and flowers and rain, even though it’s winter. Sometimes, he thinks he loves her so much that his mind is unable to distinguish between love and obsession. Which is worse?”
“She hated him – she hated everything he stood for. But when they said hate is akin to love they were certainly right. Because she needed him with every fibre of her being. And hard as it was to adm...”
“Whenever there is a conflict between pink and blue, let the pink win, happiness is more important then colors.”
“Life… has a way of testing the fault line”
“Sometimes I feel like we are the same, but sometimes, like right now, I feel the separation between our personalities like I've just run into a wall.”
“The human beings must be mentally immensely strong, during the encounter with the true malevolence in others, because on it's own it doesn't belong to their species.”
“I know how to be the witness to her grief. I don't know how to be this kind of villain.”
“But things are so bad, I feel like I’m going to explode if I don’t do something.”
“...I knew in the end the guilt of one side did not prove the innocence of the other.”
“Within Hobbes’ depiction of the motives for conflict. . . there is a problematic in which the grave threat that human beings pose to other human beings is not constituted simply by the structures o...”
“Avoiding conflict isn’t peacemaking. Avoiding conflict means running away from the mess while peacemaking means running into the middle of it. Peacemaking means addressing those issues that caused ...”
