Quotes about Conflict

A Liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.

When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport: wlien the tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.

It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of non-violence to cover impotence.

Violence is essentially wordless, and it can begin only where thought and rational communication have broken down.

A wise man always throws himself on the side of his assailants. It is more his interests than it is theirs to find his weak point.

The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheaply, we esteem too lightly; 'tis dearness only that gives everything its value.

That is why faith, wherever it develops into hope, causes not rest but unrest, not patience but impatience. It does not calm the unquiet heart, but is itself this unquiet heart in man. Those who hope in Christ can no longer put up with reality as it is, but begin to suffer under it, to contradict it. Peace with God means conflict with the world, for the goad of the promised future stabs inexorably into the flesh of every unfulfilled present.

The knowledge of the cross brings a conflict of interest between God who has become man and man who wishes to become God.

Two names on the page, his and hers, side by side. Two in a bed, lovers no longer but foes.

I tell myself I talk to Friday to educate him out of darkness and silence. But is that the truth? There are times when benevolence deserts me and I use the words only as the shortest way to subject him to my will. At such times I understand why Cruso preferred not to disturb his muteness. I understand, that is to say, why a man will choose to be a slaveowner. Do you think less of me for this confession?

I realized either I was crazy or the world was crazy; and I picked on the world. And of course I was right.

Failing to engage in conflict is a terrible decision, one that puts our temporary comfort and the avoidance of discomfort ahead of the ultimate goal of our organization.