Quotes about Conflict

Here, if any terrorists came flying over, they'd look down on trashed-out mine craters and blown-up mountains and say, "Keep going. This place already got taken out." It was hard to see how September 11 was my fight. As far as doing good for my fellow man, my better option was football.

You must understand the language of your enemy.

Double-mindedness, having two conflicting motives or interests, inevitably sets us at war with ourselves—and an internal civil war often breaks out into war with others. The opposite of double-mindedness is self-unity or integrity. We achieve integrity through the dedication of ourselves to selfless service of others.

When relationships are strained and the air charged with emotion, an attempt to teach is often perceived as a form of judgment and rejection.

When we are dependent on the person with whom we are in conflict, both need and conflict are compounded. Love-hate over-reactions, fight-or-flight tendencies, withdrawal, aggressiveness, bitterness, resentment, and cold competition are some of the usual results. When these occur, we tend to fall even further back on background tendencies and habits in an effort to justify and defend our own behavior and we attack our spouse's. Inevitably, anytime we are too vulnerable we feel the need

Love your enemy; it will ruin his reputation.

Each time you send love in response to hate, you diffuse the hate.

Love your enemy, it will scare the hell out of them.

From love arises hatred of those things which are contrary to what we love, or which oppose and thwart us in those things that we delight in.

And blessings on the falling out That all the more endears, When we fall out with those we love And kiss again with tears!

You can have successful teams where people hate but deeply respect each other; the opposite (love but not respect among team members) is a recipe for disaster.

What anger worse or slower to abate then lovers love when it turns to hate.