Quotes about Conflict
During conflict, it is tempting to complain to a third party rather than courageously speak the truth in love to the person you're upset with. This makes the matter worse. Instead, you should go directly to the person involved.
— Rick Warren
Power always protects the good of some at the expense of all others.
— Thomas Merton
The violence of war admits no distinction; the lance, that is lifted at guilt and power, will sometimes fall on innocence and gentleness.
— Samuel Johnson
My constant prayer, my number one foreign goal, is to bring peace to Israel. And in the process to Israel's neighbours.
— Jimmy Carter
Whenever 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 James
The extent to which two people in a relationship can bring up and resolve issues is a critical marker of the soundness of a relationship.
— Henry Cloud
If we can exit a relationship, pressure to reconcile lessens; if we must live with those who have wronged us, we are pushed to reconcile.
— Miroslav Volf
Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.
— Winston Churchill
If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find that we have lost the future.
— Winston Churchill
Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times.
— Winston Churchill
The wars of peoples will be more terrible than those of kings.
— Winston Churchill
What kind of people do they [the Japanese] think we are? Is it possible they do not realize that we shall never cease to persevere against them until they have been taught a lesson which they and the world will never forget?
— Winston Churchill