Peace is not absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means.
The suffering inflicted, and more often than not on the most vulnerable sectors of society, demeans all of us as humanity. That it is invariably women, children, the aged and disabled who suffer in these conflicts stands to the added shame of humankind.
A conflict begins and ends in the hearts and minds of people, not in the hilltops.
Genuine tragedies in the world are not conflicts between right and wrong. They are conflicts between two rights.
Ten commandments yet seven deadly sins: conflict?
The reality today is that we are all interdependent and have to co-exist on this small planet. Therefore, the only sensible and intelligent way of resolving differences and clashes of interests, whether between individuals or nations, is through dialogue.
There is a contest old as Eden, which still goes on - the conflict between right and wrong, between error and truth. In this conflict every human being has a part.
Knowledge of other people's beliefs and ways of thinking must be used to build bridges, not to create conflicts.
Conflict is the beginning of consciousness.
Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
If I were to summarize in one sentence the single most important principle I have learned in the field of interpersonal relations, it would be this: Seek first to understand, then to be understood. This principle is the key to effective interpersonal communication.
Conflict is not inevitable, but disarmament is... everyone now accepts that if there is a default by Saddam the international community must act to enforce its will.
We've got a generation now who were born with semiequality. They don't know how it was before, so they think, this isn't too bad. We're working. We have our attache' cases and our three piece suits. I get very disgusted with the younger generation of women. We had a torch to pass, and they are just sitting there. They don't realize it can be taken away. Things are going to have to get worse before they join in fighting the battle.
All men have an instinct for conflict: at least, all healthy men.
Politics is very interesting and always leads to conflict.
We are angry about paying the highest income taxes and property taxes in the nation and getting less and less for it. We are angry about our incompetent, dysfunctional government that pays no attention to the desires of the people. We are angry about the cesspool of corruption and conflicts of interests and self-dealing that is Albany.
Peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives for responding to conflict - alternatives to passive or aggressive responses, alternatives to violence.
Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict.
Political conflicts distort and disturb a people's sense of distinction between matters of importance and matters of urgency. What is vital is disguised by what is merely a matter of well being.
Tragedy, for me, is not a conflict between right and wrong, but between two different kinds of right.
You cannot perform in a manner inconsistent with the way you see yourself.
We must become acquainted with our emotional household: we must see our feelings as they actually are, not as we assume they are. This breaks their hypnotic and damaging hold on us.
A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law. [The Second Law of Robotics]
When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion.
A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.
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