quotations about conflict
When introverts are in conflict with each other, though, it may require a map in order to follow all the silences, nonverbal cues and passive-aggressive behaviors!
ADAM S. MCHUGH
Introverts in the Church: Finding Our Place in an Extroverted Culture
Conflict will never be eliminated from human affairs. Conflict is simply the active expression of difference, and an essential part of human development. Without conflict change would be impossible.
PHILIP SLATER
A Dream Deferred: America's Discontent and the Search for a New Democratic Ideal
Perhaps one day, all these conflicts will end, and it won't be because of great statesmen or churches or organisations like this one. It'll be because people have changed.
KAZUO ISHIGURO
When We Were Orphans
This never ending conflict is all I have.
EMMURE
"Demons with Ryu", Speaker of the Dead
For a third party, such as a mediator, ignoring history in conflict is like ignoring a fault line running through the centre of a city: you can build on it, the city might even last for a while, but eventually it will fall down.
ALAN TIDWELL
Conflict Resolved: A Critical Assessment of Conflict Resolution
Matter is essentially multiplicity and division; and this, be it said in passing, is why all that proceeds from matter can beget only strife and all manner of conflicts between peoples and between individuals. The deeper one sinks into matter, the more the elements of division and opposition gain force and scope; and, on the other hand, the more one rises towards pure spirituality, the nearer one approaches to that unity which can only be fully realized by consciousness of the universal principles.
RENÉ GUÉNON
The Crisis of the Modern World
The observation that conflict is part of the human condition, banal though it is, contradicts fashionable beliefs.
STEVEN PINKER
How the Mind Works
All concepts of politics, of whatever kind, are about conflict--how to contain it, or abolish it.
RALPH MILIBAND
Marxism and Politics