Conflict Quotes - Page 5

Compassion is a reflection of our connectedness. Your voice is need and much appreciated!

Let the world feel your compassion: Help save kidnapped Yazidi females!

P40- this violence, as a process, is perpetuated from generation to generation of oppressors, who become its heirs and are shaped by it.

When it comes to peace, we need to facilitate peace-makers' personal engagement and their genuine desire to bridge the gap between advocacy knowledge and skills necessary to differentiate between theory and practice in the field of conflict management.

There is what we desire to do, and what we are able to do. When those two things don’t coincide, which path should we pursue to find happiness?

Peace requires the provision of a platform for discussion and the exchange of information on matters and activities relevant to the prevention of armed violence.

The Sun Tzu School Ping-fa Directive.
Be strong and continually aware. Manage your strength and that of others. When essential, engage on your terms. Be observant, adaptive, and subtle. Do not lose control. Act decisively. Conclude quickly. Don't Fight!

Part of the terrible irony of war is that it enlists the best in human nature for purposes of mutual destruction.

There is an enlightened way to flow with, in, and through conflict.

The history of Science is not a mere record of isolated discoveries; it is a narrative of the conflict of two contending powers, the expansive force of the human intellect on one side, and the compression arising from traditionary faith and human interests on the other.

If you study a historical episode and feel good about it, it probably means that you haven't had it explained very well. Historical conflict is usually the struggle of different conceptions of what is good.

...this clumsy collision of two very impatient forms of ignorance was known as the quarrel of Science and Religion.

There is a dreamlike quality to the 1936 Basque government, the fulfillment of a historic longing that was to be crushed only nine months later in carnage the scale of which had never before been seen on earth.

[...] I went back to arguing with my husband and he didn't know about my face-stabbing thoughts and it made me even angrier that he didn't know about my face-stabbing thoughts, that he couldn't just intuit these things, look into my eyes and know that the way he spoke to me was a plain waste of our life [...]

Whenever there is a conflict between pink and blue, let the pink win. Happiness is more important then colors.

The interior of the arms dealer's private jet was so ugly it hurt my feelings as well as my eyeballs.

... in a word, growth and improvement can come through pain and conflict.

An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind.

In certain situations, manifesting anger is the right attitude; in others it is not the right thing to manifest because it will only add to the violence. In the first case, anger unblocks the conflict and causes another to become more conscious. In the latter, it only adds to the unconsciousness and inflames the conflict. (73)

Resolution, like responsibility, is a product of ownership, and kids can't resolve a conflict until they figure out how they contributed to it.