All men have an instinct for conflict: at least, all healthy men.
Conflict Quotes
If you’re the boss and your people fight you openly when they think you’re wrong – that’s healthy. If your men fight each other openly in your presence for what they believe in – that’s healthy. But keep all the conflict eyeball to eyeball.
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
Peace is not the absence of conflict, but the ability to cope with it.
When one ceases from conflict, whether because he has won, because he has lost, or because he cares no more for the game, the virtue passes out of him.
Once the great dialectic was capital vs. labor. Now it’s the conflict between the comfortable and the deprived. And the comfortable see the government as the threat because it is the only hope for the deprived.
What used to be a conflict is now a synergy.
Politicians are people who resolve through linguistic processes conflicts that would otherwise have to be solved by force.
Conflict is the primary engine of creativity and innovation. People don’t learn by staring into a mirror; people learn by encountering difference.
As a species, we may by all means think ruefully about the waste and horror produced by war and other forms of rivalry and jealousy. However, this can’t alter the fact that in life we make progress by conflict and in mental life by argument and disputation. The concept of the dialectic may well have […]
