Conflict Quotes

Even still, we run. We have not reached our average of 57.92 years without knowing that you run through it, and it hurts and you run through it some more, and if it hurts worse, you run through it even more, and when you finish, you will have broken through. In the end, when you are done, and stretching, and your heartbeat slows, and your sweat dries, if you've run through the hard part, you will remember no pain.

~ Lauren Groff

But my brain winds and wends. Back and forth. Up and down. It feels like the county fair has inhabited my mind-- complete with sketchy rides, carnies, and sugar-amped kids crying over lost balloons. So loud and disorienting. I want it to pack up and move on to the next town. I want my mind to be an open grassy field again with crickets and dandelions.

~ Laura Munson

Provocation is on the opposite lane of resolution.

~ Toba Beta

Damn. It looks to me like I just missed the best reunion since Sherman got together with Atlanta.

~ Susan Elizabeth Phillips

To set up what you like against what you dislike, this is the disease of the mind.

~ Sengcan

I've noticed that great political leaders are energized by conflict. I'm energized by listening to people's stories and trying to figure out shared solutions. That's the work of an organizer.

~ Gloria Steinem

Enmeshed in collective hatred and anger, each side proclaims the crimes of the other and its own righteousness, is unable to listen to the others suffering, and cannot look at the deeper roots of the conflict and how we often need our enemies in order to maintain our rigid identities. (p. 53)

~ Donald Rothberg

I was hell-bent on being an effective humanitarian in Cambodia and Somalia. But a naïve fog is finally lifting. Revealed is a train wreck of illusions, the depravity of someone else's war, the futility of a competence stillborn there. To understand this you have to become this.

~ Kenneth Cain

There were two options—call the foul or don't—and either way, he would lose, but there was a thrill here in this moment when actual combat might have replaced the shadowboxing he'd been doing for months now with every last person he loved.

~ Garth Risk Hallberg

A life without a storm would lack drama. Pounding waves of a tempestuous sea test a person’s mettle. A fearless sailor climbs the rigging and shouts out at the top of their lungs into the wind and rain whipping across their face that they will not go quietly into the good night without a fight.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

There is nothing like a conflict to do the difficult work for you. It is an underrated remedy, cowardly as we are, but it makes everything so much easier.

~ Jens Christian Grøndahl

The purpose of conflict is to create.

~ Michael Meade

It was like a war inside me; I couldn’t even recognize all the sides. There was one that said, ‘No, this is wrong; you know it’s wrong and bad and sinful,’ and there was another that said, ‘Nothing has ever felt so right and natural and true and good,’ and another that said it was happening too fast, and another that just wanted to stop thinking altogether and fling my arms around Annie and hold her forever. There were other sides, too, but I couldn’t sort them out.

~ Nancy Garden

People who don’t like conflict have an amazing ability to avoid it, even when they know it’s theoretically necessary

~ Patrick Lencioni

A series of controlled experiments and field studies in organizations shows that when teams engage in conflict over ideas in an atmosphere of mutual respect, they develop better ideas and perform better .

~ Robert I. Sutton

The lack of conflict is precisely the cause of one of the biggest problems that meetings have: they are boring

~ Patrick Lencioni

I don’t think anyone ever gets completely used to conflict. If it’s not a little uncomfortable, then it’s not real. The key is to keep doing it anyway

~ Patrick Lencioni

conflict is productive

~ Patrick Lencioni

The statement at the core of all disagreements: I’m right, you’re wrong.

~ Charles F. Glassman

What we hear and see through the filter of bias becomes our truth, while planting the seeds of conflict.

~ Charles F. Glassman

It is extremely important to be able to make negative assertions. We must be able to say what is ‘not me’ in order to have a ‘me’. What we like has no meaning unless we know what we don’t like. Our yes has no meaning if we never say no. My chosen profession has no passion if ‘just anyone would do’. Our opinions and thoughts mean very little if there is nothing we disagree with.

~ Henry Cloud

When we are wounded it's as if something is stolen from us. We adapt and accept a particular truth that sets us up to behave a certain way in the future when we are faced with a situation that reminds us of the past. What we know about ourselves becomes influenced by our perception of these events. We associate and project the qualities of those who hurt us onto others unfairly. Every situation may appear similar, but people are not. Look at the people that love you and not the reminder of ghosts.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Even with the desire for a better life, we can be reluctant to do the work of boundaries because it will be a war. The battle falls into two categories: outside resistance we get from others and the resistance we get from ourselves.

~ Henry Cloud

Imitation is the highest form of flattery. Try not to see it as an invitation to compete.

~ Andrena Sawyer

In politics, a conflict only exists in public; otherwise it is merely a potential for conflict, which we can never be certain exists or will materialize.

~ Kanan Makiya

Peace of mind is not the absence of conflict, but the ability to cope with it.

~ Scott Hawkins

Always I am speaking English on behalf of fools

~ Michael Pitre

Conflict can be healthy within a collaborative group, as long as everyone sticks to the issues and things don't get personal.

~ Eunice Parisi-Carew

The warring conflict in man between the intellect and the libido shall never be twinned.

~ Larry Kramer

I have found that winning isn't everything, and, in fact, in the relationships I most care about, it isn't anything.

~ Robert Brault

If you think of the world as a global village, a fight between India and Pakistan is like a fight between the poorest people in the poorest quarters - the Adivasis and the Dalits. And in the meantime, the zamindars are laying the oil pipelines and selling both parties weapons.

~ Arundhati Roy

I sit on it's edge, looking down at the man who feels like he just materialized out of nowhere. My head still swims with euphoria from the moment...a moment I was just in with one man whilst sleeping next to another. Suddenly feeling dirty, I pull the sheets wrapped in front of my body closer.

~ E.j. Mellow

As long as one can think as an outsider, an observer apart from the conflict, there is hope for a resolving thought.

~ R. N. Prasher

it’s like the British in Ireland in 1916’ , says Oisir O’Dowd. ‘The repeated the ageless macho mantra, “Force is the only thing these natives understand,” so often that they ended up believing it . From that point they were doomed.

~ David Mitchell

When you confront, you are trying to avoid a conflict.

~ Sunday Adelaja

Confront somebody with an issue before it becomes a conflict. Confrontation is not all bad.

~ Sunday Adelaja

An equation: 40,000 dead young men = 3,000 tons of bone and flesh, 124,000 pounds of brain matter, 50,000 gallons of blood, 1,840,000 years of life that will never be lived, 100,000 children that will never be born (the last we can afford: there are too many starving children in the world already).

~ Dalton Trumbo

How could you believe or disbelieve anything anymore? Four maybe five million men killed and none of them wanting to die while hundreds maybe thousands were left crazy or blind or crippled and couldn’t die no matter how hard they tried.

~ Dalton Trumbo

Beheading, burying and burning humans alive are extreme acts of cruelty. Such crimes against humanity must be investigated and the guilty parties brought to justice. May ALL victims rest in peace!

~ Widad Akreyi

I will follow anyone...And remind everyone...Of enslaved Yazidi women...Raped...And forced...To donate blood to ISIS men...

~ Widad Akreyi