Quotes about Conflict
Hatred is settled anger.
— Cicero
Too many problem-solving sessions become battlegrounds where decisions are made based on power rather than intelligence.
— Margaret J. Wheatley
Human nature is potentially aggressive and destructive and potentially orderly and constructive.
— Margaret Mead
We all agree that forgiveness is a beautiful idea until we have to practice it.
— CS Lewis
Disagreements don't cause disunity, a lack of forgiveness does.
— Loren Cunningham
If we do an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, we will be a blind and toothless nation.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
If any man ceases to attack me, I never remember the past against him.
— Abraham Lincoln
Let us remember that revolutions do not always establish freedom.
— Millard Fillmore
We're still being challenged in Iraq and the reason why is a free Iraq will be a major defeat in the cause of freedom.
— George W. Bush
The beauty of enmity is insecurity; the beauty of friendship is in security.
— Robert Frost
He makes no friend who never made a foe.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
Sixth, tough conversations get tougher the longer you wait. I tend to avoid conflict, but I've come to realize that I'm not doing anybody any favors when I do so.
— Mark Batterson