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Quotes about Conflict

I'm willing to die on, but there are some I'm not willing to die on. I won't engage in the combat of criticism. It is sideways energy, and it doesn't have a redemptive purpose. I overlook the offense so I can keep playing offense.
- Mark Batterson
One of the mistakes we make as parents and as leaders is this: we do everything within our power to create emotional and relational and spiritual biospheres. We avoid conflict. We mitigate risk. We minimize discomfort. We sidestep sacrifice. Then we wonder why people grow to a certain stature and stop. We wonder why leaders fall.
- Mark Batterson
When you are lying in bed angry with your backs turned towards each other, imagine Satan sleeping in the space between you.
- Mark Driscoll
God created war so that Americans would learn geography.
- Mark Twain
My wife was too beautiful for words, but not for arguments.
- John Barrymore
Peace is the one condition of survival in this nuclear age.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement.
- Jimmy Carter
Have we not come to such an impasse in the modern world that we must love our enemies - or else? The chain reaction of evil - hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars - must be broken, or else we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Nature has not got two voices, you know, one of them condemning all day what the other commands.
- Marquis de Sade
Nothing good ever comes of violence.
- Martin Luther
Blood alone moves the wheels of history
- Martin Luther
I owe you a small thanks, for you have made me far more sure of my own position by letting me see the case for free choice put forward with all the energy of so distinguished and powerful a mind, but with no other effect than to make things worse than before.
- Martin Luther