Conflict Quotes
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
Dewey, John
Conflict 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.
Einstein, Albert
Great ideas often receive violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Gandhi, Indira
You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
Hume, David
Truth springs from argument amongst friends.
King Jr., Martin Luther
True peace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice.
Lippman, Walter
Where all think alike, no one thinks very much.
Mabie, Hamilton
Don't be afraid of opposition. Remember, a kite rises against; not with; the wind.
Morley, Christopher
There is no squabbling so violent as that between people who accepted an idea yesterday and those who will accept the same idea tomorrow.
Pagels, Heinz
Science cannot resolve moral conflicts, but it can help to more accurately frame the debates about those conflicts.
Peck, M. Scott
The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers.
Roosevelt, Theodore
The unforgivable crime is soft hitting. Do not hit at all if it can be avoided; but never hit softly.
Seneca
Behold a worthy sight, to which the God, turning his attention to his own work, may direct his gaze. Behold an equal thing, worthy of a God, a brave man matched in conflict with evil fortune.
Thompson, Dorothy
Peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives for responding to conflict -- alternatives to passive or aggressive responses, alternatives to violence.