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.

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.

When you are lying in bed angry with your backs turned towards each other, imagine Satan sleeping in the space between you.

God created war so that Americans would learn geography.

My wife was too beautiful for words, but not for arguments.

Peace is the one condition of survival in this nuclear age.

If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement.

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

Nature has not got two voices, you know, one of them condemning all day what the other commands.

Nothing good ever comes of violence.

Blood alone moves the wheels of history

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.