Conflict Quotes - Page 2

The symbolism of meat-eating is never neutral. To himself, the meat-eater seems to be eating life. To the vegetarian, he seems to be eating death. There is a kind of gestalt-shift between the two positions which makes it hard to change, and hard to raise questions on the matter at all without becoming embattled.

I just want to understand how people misunderstand each other!

Peace is not an easy prospect-it requires greater bravery than does conflict.

Do not think of knocking out another person's brains because he differs in opinion from you. It would be as rational to knock yourself on the head because you differ from yourself ten years ago.

The thinking at the epicenter of most human conflict: “I’m right; you’re wrong.

I can see that the sadness has returned. And it's not a beautiful sadness- beautiful sadness is a myth. Sadness turns our features to clay, not porcelain.

In this story
I am the poet
You're the poetry.

Don't feed your ego with my soul.

Because conflict-avoidant Emily would never “bite” or even hiss unless Greg had done something truly horrible, on some level she processes his bite to mean that she’s terribly guilty - of something, anything, who knows what?

In some ways, we will always be different. In other ways, we will always be the same. There is always room to disagree and blame, just as there is always room to take a new perspective and empathize. Understanding is a choice.

An arguing couple spiraling into negativity and teetering on the brink of divorce is actually mathematically equivalent to the beginning of a nuclear war.

The conflict of theories, leading, as it eventually must, to the survival of the fittest, is advantageous.

Ideas and not battles mark the forward progress of mankind.

I violently dislike you,' she said, and then she was gone, slamming the door and leaving a sort of shocked silence behind.

A revolution is not a bed of roses. A revolution is a struggle between the future and the past.

Parts of you are phobic of anger and generally terrified and ashamed of angry dissociative parts. There is often tremendous conflict between anger-avoidant and anger-fixated parts of an individual. Thus, an internal and perpetual cycle of rage-shame-fear creates inner chaos and pain.

All war is a symptom of man's failure as a thinking animal.

What better way for a ruling class to claim and hold power than to pose as the defenders of the nation.

All concepts of politics, of whatever kind, are about conflict──how to contain it, or abolish it.

I want a future abortion conversation known for its openness, respect and empathy, so instead of generating more heat, anger and conflict, I practice pro-voice.