Never ascribe to an opponent motives meaner than your own.
Conflict Quotes
If you’ve spent much time around the newly graduated, you’ll find something striking about this younger generation. They have a new religion. It’s called “sensitivity.” There are plenty of things wrong in human conduct, but by far the greatest sin is “insensitivity.” Anything that could faintly unsettle, upset, disturb, unnerve or discombobulate another person according […]
All men have an instinct for conflict: at least, all healthy men.
If you’re the boss and your people fight you openly when they think you’re wrong – that’s healthy. If your men fight each other openly in your presence for what they believe in – that’s healthy. But keep all the conflict eyeball to eyeball.
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
Peace is not the absence of conflict, but the ability to cope with it.
When one ceases from conflict, whether because he has won, because he has lost, or because he cares no more for the game, the virtue passes out of him.
Once the great dialectic was capital vs. labor. Now it’s the conflict between the comfortable and the deprived. And the comfortable see the government as the threat because it is the only hope for the deprived.
What used to be a conflict is now a synergy.
Politicians are people who resolve through linguistic processes conflicts that would otherwise have to be solved by force.
