Conflict Quotes

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Mahatma Gandhi
“An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind.”
Mahatma Gandhi

“First they ignore you. Then they ridicule you. And then they attack you and want to burn you. And then they build monuments to you.”
Nicholas Klein

John Steinbeck
“All war is a symptom of man's failure as a thinking animal.”
John Steinbeck

“I wish I could tell you how lonely I am. How cold and harsh it is here. Everywhere there is conflict and unkindness. I think God has forsaken this place. I believe I have seen hell and it's white, it's snow-white.”
Sandy Welch

Shannon L. Alder
“Often those that criticise others reveal what he himself lacks.”
Shannon L. Alder

Lao Tzu
“In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present.”
Lao Tzu

Walt Whitman
“Note, to-day, an instructive, curious spectacle and conflict. Science, (twin, in its fields, of Democracy in its)—Science, testing absolutely all thoughts, all works, has already burst well upon the world—a sun, mounting, most illuminating, most glorious—surely never again to set. But against it, deeply entrench'd, holding possession, yet remains, (not only through the churches and schools, but by imaginative literature, and unregenerate poetry,) the fossil theology of the mythic-materialistic, superstitious, untaught and credulous, fable-loving, primitive ages of humanity.”
Walt Whitman, Complete Prose Works

Yvonne Korshak
“It had happened. Thucydides, his archrival, was a general. Glaucon, from his own tribe, was a general. And Pericles was no longer a general. He was just a citizen with one vote. And an idea”
Yvonne Korshak, Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece

Yvonne Korshak
“We had old architects and were working with what we had on hand. You’ve hired this new, young architect now, and, Pericles, I’m going to build you a statue of Athena—all gold and ivory, think of that, Pericles—and taller than our city walls.” Pericles raised his eyes toward the birds.”
Yvonne Korshak, Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece

Lisa Kaniut Cobb
“Josh's heart soared as he got a taste of the power and endurance in his elk body.”
Lisa Kaniut Cobb, Down in the Valley

Henrik Ibsen
“To live is to war with trolls.”
Henrik Ibsen

Fidel Castro
“A revolution is not a bed of roses. A revolution is a struggle between the future and the past.”
Fidel Castro

Horace Mann
“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.”
Horace Mann

Margaret Atwood
“Happiness is a garden walled with glass: there's no way in or out. In Paradise there are no stories, because there are no journeys. It's loss and regret and misery and yearning that drive the story forward, along its twisted road.”
Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin

Holly Black
“I need you to be happy. I need one of us to be happy.”
Holly Black, Red Glove

Liane Moriarty
“All conflict can be traced back to someone’s feelings getting hurt, don’t you think?”
Liane Moriarty, Big Little Lies

Erich Fromm
“The faculty to think objectively is reason; the emotional attitude behind reason is that of humility. To be objective, to use one's reason, is possible only if one has achieved an attitude of humility, if one has emerged from the dreams of omniscience and omnipotence which one has as a child. Love, being dependent on the relative absence of narcissism, requires the developement of humility, objectivity and reason.

I must try to see the difference between my picture of a person and his behavior, as it is narcissistically distorted, and the person's reality as it exists regardless of my interests, needs and fears.”
Erich Fromm, The Art of Loving

Audre Lorde
“Unless one lives and loves in the trenches, it is difficult to remember that the war against dehumanization is ceaseless.”
Audre Lorde

Kamand Kojouri
“They want us to be afraid.
They want us to be afraid of leaving our homes.
They want us to barricade our doors
and hide our children.
Their aim is to make us fear life itself!
They want us to hate.
They want us to hate 'the other'.
They want us to practice aggression
and perfect antagonism.
Their aim is to divide us all!
They want us to be inhuman.
They want us to throw out our kindness.
They want us to bury our love
and burn our hope.
Their aim is to take all our light!
They think their bricked walls
will separate us.
They think their damned bombs
will defeat us.
They are so ignorant they don’t understand
that my soul and your soul are old friends.
They are so ignorant they don’t understand
that when they cut you I bleed.
They are so ignorant they don’t understand
that we will never be afraid,
we will never hate
and we will never be silent
for life is ours!”
Kamand Kojouri

“Outside, beyond the vast red bricked labyrinth of Kremlin walls, a humid night ensnarled the Soviet capital in its spell. Yet here in the womb-like private cinema Josef Stalin sat, eyes transfixed on the screen, as Johnny Weissmuller arced through a canopy of trees boldly screaming his signature jungle call.”
KGE Konkel, Who Has Buried the Dead?: From Stalin to Putin … The last great secret of World War Two

Adam S. McHugh
“When introverts are in conflict with each other...it may require a map in order to follow all the silences, nonverbal cues and passive-aggressive behaviors!”
Adam S. McHugh

Lisa Kaniut Cobb
“If he could blush through his fur, he would have.”
Lisa Kaniut Cobb, Down in the Valley

Lisa Kaniut Cobb
“George didn't do quiet or subtle. His big paws kicked up rocks as he stretched into his own version of a freight train.”
Lisa Kaniut Cobb, Down in the Valley

David Levithan
“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.”
David Levithan , Every Day

L. Ron Hubbard
“Ideas and not battles mark the forward progress of mankind.”
L. Ron Hubbard

Brené Brown
“People often silence themselves, or "agree to disagree" without fully exploring the actual nature of the disagreement, for the sake of protecting a relationship and maintaining connection. But when we avoid certain conversations, and never fully learn how the other person feels about all of the issues, we sometimes end up making assumptions that not only perpetuate but deepen misunderstandings, and that can generate resentment.”
Brené Brown, Braving the Wilderness: The Quest for True Belonging and the Courage to Stand Alone

Ai Yazawa
“I don't think avoiding conflict is not caring.

~Shin”
Ai Yazawa, Nana, Vol. 12

Shannon L. Alder
“When the person you love can't see your love for them beneath the painful things you say when they reject you, remember this: Love is blind.”
Shannon L. Alder

Mark Twain
“Never have a battle of wits with an unarmed person.”
Mark Twain

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