Quotes about Conflict
Hatred is settled anger.
- Cicero
Too many problem-solving sessions become battlegrounds where decisions are made based on power rather than intelligence.
- Margaret J. Wheatley
Human nature is potentially aggressive and destructive and potentially orderly and constructive.
- Margaret Mead
We all agree that forgiveness is a beautiful idea until we have to practice it.
- CS Lewis
Disagreements don't cause disunity, a lack of forgiveness does.
- Loren Cunningham
If we do an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, we will be a blind and toothless nation.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
If any man ceases to attack me, I never remember the past against him.
- Abraham Lincoln
Let us remember that revolutions do not always establish freedom.
- Millard Fillmore
We're still being challenged in Iraq and the reason why is a free Iraq will be a major defeat in the cause of freedom.
- George W. Bush
The beauty of enmity is insecurity; the beauty of friendship is in security.
- Robert Frost
He makes no friend who never made a foe.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
Sixth, tough conversations get tougher the longer you wait. I tend to avoid conflict, but I've come to realize that I'm not doing anybody any favors when I do so.
- Mark Batterson