Quotes about Conflict

In bounded communities, aggression is projected outward. For example, the ten commandments say, "Thou shalt not kill." Then the next chapter says, "Go into Canaan and kill everybody in it." That is a bounded field. The myths of participation and love pertain only to the in-group, and the out-group is totally other.

To be right with God has often meant to be in trouble with men.

So you're the little woman who wrote the book that made this great war!

Whenever there is a conflict between human rights and property rights, human rights must prevail.

The love of property and consciousness of right and wrong have conflicting places in our organization, which often makes a man's course seem crooked, his conduct a riddle.

Both read the same Bible, and pray to the same God; and each invokes his aid against the other.... The prayers of both could not be answered--that of neither has been answered fully.

It's a sad situation when you have to talk crap about other organizations that you know your paths are never going to cross competitively.

I am more afraid of my own heart than of the pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great pope, Self. MARTIN LUTHER (1483—1546)

The best ideas make you want to say 'yes' and 'no' in the same breath.

I made this film 'The Beach,' which didn't take place in a city, and it didn't really suit me.

The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited with himself.

The real and lasting victories are those of peace and not of war.