Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict.
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I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left.
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To observe people in conflict is a necessary part of a child's education. It helps him to understand and accept his own occasional hostilities and to realize that differing opinions need not imply an absence of love.
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A city has values as well as slums, excitement as well as conflict a personality that has not yet been obliterated by its highways and gas stations.
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You're obliged to pretend respect for people and institutions you find absurd. You live attached in a cowardly fashion to moral and social conventions you despise, condemn, and know lack all foundation. It is that permanent contradiction between your ideas and desires and all the dead formalities and vain pretenses of your civilization which makes you sad, troubled and unbalanced. In that intolerable conflict you lose all joy of life and feeling of personality, because at every moment they suppress and restrain and check the free play of your powers. That's the poisoned and mortal wound of the civilized world.
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A good manager doesn't try to eliminate conflict; he tries to keep it from wasting the energies of his people. If you're the boss and your people fight you openly when they think that you are wrong - that's healthy.
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Communism is in conflict with human nature.
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The greatest conflicts are not between two people but between one person and himself.
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Conflict is inevitable, but combat is optional.
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Nothing is given to man on earth - struggle is built into the nature of life, and conflict is possible - the hero is the man who lets no obstacle prevent him from pursuing the values he has chosen.
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It doesn't take a hero to order men into battle. It takes a hero to be one of those men who goes into battle.
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So there are five ways of knowing who will win. Those who know when to fight and when not to fight are victorious. Those who discern when to use many or few troops are victorious. Those whose upper and lower ranks have the same desire are victorious.
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Conflict is the beginning of consciousness.
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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.
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Conflict builds character. Crisis defines it.
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It was the nation and the race dwelling all round the globe that had the lion's heart. I had the luck to be called upon to give the roar.
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It has been my misfortune to be engaged in more battles than any other general on the other side of the Atlantic; but there was never a time during my command when I would not have chosen some settlement by reason rather than the sword.
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The stakes in conflict do not change. Battle determines who will control the wealth or its equivalent.
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Conflicts may be the sources of defeat, lost life and a limitation of our potentiality but they may also lead to greater depth of living and the birth of more far-reaching unities, which flourish in the tensions that engender them
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If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism
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The greatest horrors of our world, from the executions in Iran to the brutalities of the IRA, are committed by people who are totally sincere
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The battle promises to be fought with bags of bagels and bran muffins, free beer and wine, expanded legroom, baggage closets and overhead bins.
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Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.
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Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
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From the fact that people are very different it follows that, if we treat them equally, the result must be inequality in their actual position, and that the only way to place them in an equal position would be to treat them differently. Equality before the law and material equality are therefore not only different but are in conflict with each other; and we can achieve either one or the other, but not both at the same time.
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