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| Quote for category - conflict |
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The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crises maintain their neutrality.
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All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and
honest--never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle of equal
partnership.
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A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
- in conflict
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I found one day in school a boy of medium size ill-treating a smaller boy. I expostulated, but he replied: 'The bigs hit me,
so I hit the babies; that's fair.' In these words he epitomized the history of the human race.
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Conflict is the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. It instigates to invention. It shocks us out of
sheeplike passivity, and sets us at noting and contriving.
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Truth springs from argument amongst friends.
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But the greatest menace to our civilization today is the conflict between giant organized systems of self-righteousness --
each system only too delighted to find that the other is wicked -- each only too glad that the sins give it the pretext for
still deeper hatred and animosity.
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A successful work of art is not one which resolves contradictions in a spurious harmony, but one which expresses the idea of
harmony negatively by embodying the contradictions, pure and uncompromised, in its innermost structure.
- in conflict
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There are two dilemmas that rattle the human skull: How do you hang on to someone who won't stay? And how do you get rid of
someone who won't go?
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True peace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice.
- in conflict
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Great ideas often receive violent opposition from mediocre minds.
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The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or
unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and
start searching for different ways or truer answers.
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Whenever two good people argue over principles, they are both right.
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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.
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There are three ways of dealing with difference: domination, compromise, and integration. By domination only one side gets
what it wants; by compromise neither side gets what it wants; by integration we find a way by which both sides may get what
they wish.
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My dear sir, they don't debate. Each of them merely issues an ultimatum, and in what a tone! It all goes to show what
extraordinary people they are, each more unequivocal than the other. - "The Old Lady and the Bear"
- in conflict
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Science cannot resolve moral conflicts, but it can help to more accurately frame the debates about those conflicts.
- in conflict
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There is no squabbling so violent as that between people who accepted an idea yesterday and those who will accept the same
idea tomorrow.
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Don't be afraid of opposition. Remember, a kite rises against; not with; the wind.
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