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5. “At some level, all love is combat, a wrestling with ghosts. We are only for something by being against something else. People who believe they are having pleasant, casual, uncomplex sexual encounters, whether with friend, spouse, or stranger are blocking from consciousness the tangle of psychodynamics at work, just as they block the hostile clashings of their dream life.”
Camille Paglia
Love, Psychology, Relationships, Conflict, Ghosts
15. “It would be almost politically suicidal for members of Congress to espouse a balanced position between Israel and Palestine, to suggest that Israel comply with international law or to speak in defense of justice or human rights for Palestinians. If they did so, they couldn’t be reelected.” Jimmy Carter Politics, Justice, Conflict, Diplomacy, Leadership
18. “We heard of ambushes on roads we knew, of villages attacked, of headmen and officials killed. It was at this time that Mahesh said something which I remembered. It wasn’t the kind of thing I was expecting from him – so careful of his looks and clothes, so spoiled, so obsessed with his lovely wife. Mahesh said to me: “What do you do? You live here, and you ask that? You do what we all do. You carry on.” V.S. Naipaul Survival, Conflict, Reality, Life, Struggles
27. “When you say something really unkind, when you do something in retaliation your anger increases. You make the other person suffer, and he will try hard to say or to do something back to get relief from his suffering. That is how conflict escalates.” Thich Nhat Hanh Anger, Conflict, Retaliation, Suffering, Kindness
38. “No army is the key to peace, neither the U. S. Army nor the Soviet Army nor any other. No “great” nation has the key to anything but war. Power has nothing to do with peace. The more men build up military power, the more they violate peace and destroy it.” Thomas Merton Peace, War, Power, Nations, Conflict
40. “When a person doesn’t understand something, he feels internal discord: however he doesn’t search for that discord in himself, as he should, but searches outside of himself. Thence a war develops with that which he doesn’t understand.” Anton Chekhov Ignorance, Conflict, Self-awareness, Misunderstanding, Psychology
41. “X. and Z., very well educated and of radical views, married. In the evening they talked together pleasantly, then quarreled, then came to blows. In the morning both are ashamed and surprised, they think it must have been the result of some exceptional state of their nerves. Next night again a quarrel and blows. And so every night until at last they realize that they are not at all educated, but savage, just like the majority of people.” Anton Chekhov Marriage, Human Nature, Conflict, Realization, Society
43. “You are cultured and intelligent, Ivan, and you surely understand that the world is not destroyed by villains and conflagrations, but by hate and malice and all this spiteful tattling. It is your duty to make peace, and not to growl at everything.” Anton Chekhov Hatred, Conflict, Peace, Wisdom, Responsibility
Conflict Quotes by Famous Authors
5. “At some level, all love is combat, a wrestling with ghosts. We are only for something by being against something else. People who believe they are having pleasant, casual, uncomplex sexual encounters, whether with friend, spouse, or stranger are blocking from consciousness the tangle of psychodynamics at work, just as they block the hostile clashings of their dream life.”
Camille Paglia Love, Psychology, Relationships, Conflict, Ghosts
15. “It would be almost politically suicidal for members of Congress to espouse a balanced position between Israel and Palestine, to suggest that Israel comply with international law or to speak in defense of justice or human rights for Palestinians. If they did so, they couldn’t be reelected.”
Jimmy Carter Politics, Justice, Conflict, Diplomacy, Leadership
18. “We heard of ambushes on roads we knew, of villages attacked, of headmen and officials killed. It was at this time that Mahesh said something which I remembered. It wasn’t the kind of thing I was expecting from him – so careful of his looks and clothes, so spoiled, so obsessed with his lovely wife. Mahesh said to me: “What do you do? You live here, and you ask that? You do what we all do. You carry on.”
V.S. Naipaul Survival, Conflict, Reality, Life, Struggles
27. “When you say something really unkind, when you do something in retaliation your anger increases. You make the other person suffer, and he will try hard to say or to do something back to get relief from his suffering. That is how conflict escalates.”
Thich Nhat Hanh Anger, Conflict, Retaliation, Suffering, Kindness
38. “No army is the key to peace, neither the U. S. Army nor the Soviet Army nor any other. No “great” nation has the key to anything but war. Power has nothing to do with peace. The more men build up military power, the more they violate peace and destroy it.”
Thomas Merton Peace, War, Power, Nations, Conflict
40. “When a person doesn’t understand something, he feels internal discord: however he doesn’t search for that discord in himself, as he should, but searches outside of himself. Thence a war develops with that which he doesn’t understand.”
Anton Chekhov Ignorance, Conflict, Self-awareness, Misunderstanding, Psychology
41. “X. and Z., very well educated and of radical views, married. In the evening they talked together pleasantly, then quarreled, then came to blows. In the morning both are ashamed and surprised, they think it must have been the result of some exceptional state of their nerves. Next night again a quarrel and blows. And so every night until at last they realize that they are not at all educated, but savage, just like the majority of people.”
Anton Chekhov Marriage, Human Nature, Conflict, Realization, Society
43. “You are cultured and intelligent, Ivan, and you surely understand that the world is not destroyed by villains and conflagrations, but by hate and malice and all this spiteful tattling. It is your duty to make peace, and not to growl at everything.”
Anton Chekhov Hatred, Conflict, Peace, Wisdom, Responsibility
