An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.
Mahatma GandhiWhoever counters the malicious with malice can never be free, but one who feels no maliciousness pacifies those who hate. Hate brings misery to humanity, so the wise man knows no hatred
BuddhaIt is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.
VoltaireNever in this world can hatred be stilled by hatred, it will be stilled by non-hatred - this is the law Eternal.
BuddhaIn the vast cosmos man is like a speck. Essentially there is no conflict between man and creation.
Sai BabaConflict is the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. It instigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheeplike passivity and sets us at noting and contriving.
John DeweyI am at peace with God. My conflict is with Man.
Charlie ChaplinFlowers are restful to look at. They have neither emotions nor conflicts.
Sigmund FreudConflict cannot survive without your participation.
Wayne DyerIn dwelling live close to the ground. In thinking keep to the simple. In conflict be fair and generous. In governing don't try to control. In work do what you enjoy. In family life be completely present.
Lao TzuLet us live without any conflict.
Sai BabaThe passions are the same in every conflict, large or small.
Mason CooleyIt may happen sometimes that a long debate becomes the cause of a longer friendship. Commonly those who dispute with one another at last agree.
Elbert HubbardAt the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.
Soren KierkegaardLearning is an ornament in prosperity, a refuge in adversity and a provision in old age.
AristotleI think America is just so in love with conflict.
Chuck PalahniukA merely fallen enemy may rise again, but the reconciled one is truly vanquished.
Friedrich SchillerAgainst the assault of laughter nothing can stand.
Mark TwainMan must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.
Martin Luther King, Jr.Americans love to fight. All real Americans love the sting of battle.
George S. PattonPetroleum is a more likely cause of international conflict than wheat.
Simone WeilWhere there is no struggle there is no strength.
Oprah WinfreyIt is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell.
BuddhaA robot must obey the orders given it by human beings, except where such orders would conflict with the First Law. [The Second Law of Robotics]
Isaac AsimovThe hottest place in Hell is reserved for those who remain neutral in times of great moral conflict.
Martin Luther King, Jr.Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence, he is just using his memory.
Leonardo da VinciMen regard it as their right to return evil for evil, and if they cannot feel they have lost their liberty.
AristotleYou should respect each other and refrain from disputes, you should not like water and oil repel each other, but should like milk and water mingle together.
BuddhaA robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law. [The Third Law of Robotics]
Isaac AsimovTruths begin by a conflict with the police - and end by calling them in.
Emile M. CioranCompromise n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary the satisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and is deprived of nothing except what was justly his due.
Ambrose BierceThoughtless dilettante or purblind wordlings sometimes ask us "What is it that Britain and France are fighting for?" To this I answer "If we left off fighting you would soon find out".
Winston ChurchillIn the long term we can hope that religion will change the nature of man and reduce conflict. But history is not encouraging in this respect. The bloodiest wars in history have been religious wars.
Richard M. NixonConflicts and factions, violence and upheavals are caused by the neglect of human values in daily life.
Sai BabaTrue genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain hazardous and conflicting information.
Winston ChurchillThe most intense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security and calm that is not easily disturbed. It is just these intense conflicts and their conflagration which are needed to produce valuable and lasting results.
Carl JungIn all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane.
Oscar WildeThe harder the conflict the more glorious the triumph.
Thomas PaineIt is better to live in peace than in bitterness and strife.
ConfuciusThe bad man is continually at war with and in opposition to himself.
AristotleThough a quarrel in the streets is a thing to be hated, the energies displayed in it are fine, the commonest man shows a grace in his quarrel.
John KeatsDrama usually has some sort of intense conflict.
Clint EastwoodA man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green.
Francis BaconTen commandments, yet seven deadly sins: conflict?
Doug CouplandI am a woman in process. I'm just trying like everybody else. I try to take every conflict, every experience, and learn from it. Life is never dull.
Oprah WinfreyOne should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.
Oscar WildeA coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit.
Thomas JeffersonOnly in love are unity and duality not in conflict.
Rabindranath TagoreMarriage is one long conversation chequered by disputes.
Robert Louis StevensonThere is nothing more dangerous than the conscience of a bigot.
George Bernard ShawFamily is conflict and it's something that we all relate to.
Bill CosbyI do not dispute with the world; rather it is the world that disputes with me.
BuddhaNever in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.
Winston ChurchillA psychologist once told me that, for a boy, being in the middle of a conflict between two women is the worst possible situation. There's always a desire to please each one.
Hillary ClintonA marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.
Andre MauroisPeace is not absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means.
Ronald ReaganInferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior.
AristotleIn a false quarrel there is no true valor.
William ShakespeareIf you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die? And if you wrong us shall we not revenge?
William ShakespeareWhenever you're in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude.
William JamesWhen will mankind be convinced and agree to settle their difficulties by arbitration?
Benjamin FranklinIf there is anything disagreeable going on, men are always sure to get out of it
Jane AustenI have defeated this earthworm with my words. Imagine what I would have done with my fire breathing fists.
Charlie SheenSweet are the uses of adversity, which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in his head.
William ShakespeareArguments are to be avoided: they are always vulgar and often convincing.
Oscar WildeIt will have blood they say, blood will have blood.
William ShakespeareWe were looking at the Chicago Marathon, but a conflict arose with the date and New York seems to fit our schedule better. I've been training some, but I wouldn't call it serious. It's just something to fill a void in my life after I quit competing as a professional cyclist.
Lance ArmstrongIf you get down and quarrel everyday, you're saying prayers to the devil I say.
Bob Marley