I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies, for the hardest victory is over self.
AristotleWhenever you are confronted with an opponent, conquer him with love.
Mahatma GandhiAn 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
BuddhaIn the vast cosmos man is like a speck. Essentially there is no conflict between man and creation.
Sai BabaFlowers are restful to look at. They have neither emotions nor conflicts.
Sigmund FreudCan anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?
Blaise PascalIn 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 BabaHence the saying: If you know the enemy and you know yourself your victory will not stand in doubt, if you now Heaven and you know Earth you may make your victory complete.
Sun TzuThe passions are the same in every conflict, large or small.
Mason CooleyAt the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.
Soren KierkegaardA 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.Petroleum is a more likely cause of international conflict than wheat.
Simone WeilWhere there is no struggle there is no strength.
Oprah WinfreyA 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 VinciA 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 AsimovThoughtless 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 ChurchillConflicts 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 PaineSometimes you need to get hit in the head to realize that you're in a fight.
Michael JordanIt is better to live in peace than in bitterness and strife.
ConfuciusThough 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 EastwoodGod's love is too great to be confined to any one side of a conflict or to any one religion.
Desmond TutuA man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green.
Francis BaconTen commandments, yet seven deadly sins: conflict?
Doug CouplandOne 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 JeffersonMarriage is one long conversation chequered by disputes.
Robert Louis StevensonTo lose patience is to lose the battle.
Mahatma GandhiThere 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.
BuddhaWhat difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism, or the holy name of liberty or democracy?
Mahatma GandhiNever in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.
Winston ChurchillA 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.
AristotleA man may conquer a million men in battle, but one who conquers himself is indeed the greatest of conquerors.
BuddhaIf 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 MarleyIt is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those who have expressed more superficial views, for these also contributed something by developing before us the powers of thought.
Aristotle