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1. “Not until all babies are born from glass jars will the combat cease between mother and son.”

Camille Paglia

Motherhood, Gender, Conflict, Society, Family

2. “All the genres of philosophy, science, high art, athletics and politics were invented by men. But by the Promethean law of conflict and capture, woman has a right to seize what she will and vie with man on her own terms.”

Camille Paglia

Philosophy, Gender, Invention, Conflict, Equality

3. “The reason I was angry all the time was that Gloria Steinem and all those people, without reading my work, were saying all these horrible things against me.”

Camille Paglia

Anger, Feminism, Gloria Steinem, Misunderstanding, Conflict

4. “The only thing that will be remembered about my enemies after they’re dead is the nasty things I’ve said about them.”

Camille Paglia

Enemies, Legacy, Revenge, Memory, Conflict

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

6. “Cards are war, in disguise of a sport.”

Charles Lamb

Games, Strategy, Competition, Deception, Conflict

7. “War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn to live together in peace by killing each other’s children.”

Jimmy Carter

War, Evil, Peace, Children, Conflict

8. “We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other’s children.”

Jimmy Carter

Peace, Children, Killing, Unity, Conflict

9. “The United States is squandering international prestige and goodwill and intensifying global anti-American terrorism by unofficially condoning or abetting the Israeli confiscation and colonization of Palestinian territories.”

Jimmy Carter

Prestige, Terrorism, Goodwill, Colonization, Conflict

10. “There should be an honest attempt at the reconciliation of differences before resorting to combat.”

Jimmy Carter

Peace, Reconciliation, War, Diplomacy, Conflict

11. “We have been involved in more wars, on a bilateral basis, since the United Nations was formed than any other country by far.”

Jimmy Carter

War, Nations, America, Conflict, History

12. “The pre-eminent obstacle to peace is Israel’s colonization of Palestine.”

Jimmy Carter

Peace, Conflict, Politics, Freedom, Justice

13. “I don’t think that Israel has any legal or moral justification for their massive bombing of the entire nation of Lebanon.”

Jimmy Carter

Politics, War, Morality, Israel, Conflict

14. “It’s a terrible and tragic and counterproductive policy to avoid communicating with people who disagree with us.”

Jimmy Carter

Communication, Conflict, Dialogue, Understanding, Policy

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

16. “Aggression unopposed becomes a contagious disease.”

Jimmy Carter

Aggression, Conflict, Society, Consequences, Peace

17. “The heart and mind of every Muslim is affected by whether or not the Israel-Palestine issue is dealt with fairly.”

Jimmy Carter

Muslim, Israel-Palestine, Fairness, Conflict, Justice

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

19. “No civilization was so little equipped to cope with the outside world; no country was so easily raided and plundered, and learned so little from its disasters.”

V.S. Naipaul

History, Civilization, Conflict, Lessons, Struggle

20. “In the beginning, before the arrival of the white men, I had considered myself neutral. I had wanted neither side to win, neither the army nor the rebels. As it turned out, both sides lost.”

V.S. Naipaul

Conflict, War, Neutrality, Loss, Perspective

21. “It isn’t that there’s no right and wrong here. There’s no right.”

V.S. Naipaul

Morality, Society, Ethics, Perception, Conflict

22. “The family feuds or the village feuds often had to do with an idea of honor. Perhaps it was a peasant idea; perhaps this idea of honor is especially important to a society without recourse to law or without confidence in law.”

V.S. Naipaul

Honor, Society, Conflict, Tradition, Justice

23. “I thought: How dare you lecture me about history and loyalty, you slave? We have paid bitterly for people like you. Who have you ever been loyal to, apart from yourself and your family and your caste?”

V.S. Naipaul

Loyalty, History, Caste, Society, Conflict

24. “Where jargon turns living issues into abstractions, and where jargon ends by competing with jargon, people don’t have causes. They only have enemies.”

V.S. Naipaul

Language, Abstraction, Society, Communication, Conflict

25. “Hatred and fear blind us. We no longer see each other. We see only the faces of monsters, and that gives us the courage to destroy each other.”

Thich Nhat Hanh

Hatred, Fear, Perception, Conflict, Understanding

26. “To reconcile conflicting parties, we must have the ability to understand the suffering of both sides.”

Thich Nhat Hanh

Reconciliation, Conflict, Suffering, Understanding, Peace

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