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“What I think we need to do is infuse everyday and every action with the kind of values we hope will be in the future, with kindness, with nurturing, with dreams, ambition, using your talents, not resorting to violence, other forms of conflict resolution, with humor, with poetry, with music.”

Thinking Needs Kind Dream Action Form Values Kindness Violence Talent Conflict Ambition Everyday Resolution Nurturing Conflict Resolution Using Your Talents

Author:Gloria Steinem

“With many sovereign states, with no system of law enforceable among them, with each state judging its grievances and ambitions according to the dictates of its own reason or desire - conflict, sometimes leading to war, is bound to occur.”

War Sometimes States Reason Law Desire Judging Conflict Ambition Bounds Sovereign Grievance

Book:Man, the State, and War: A Theoretical Analysis

Source: Man, the State, and War: A Theoretical Analysis

“Meditation is like light: when meditation comes, politics disappears. So you cannot be meditative and political. That is impossible: you are asking for the impossible. Meditation is not one pole: it is the absence of all conflict, all ambition, all ego trips.”

Light Political Meditation Impossible Conflict Ego Ambition Asking Disappear Absence Calming Ego Trip

Author:Rajneesh

“My actions to promote peace, the mediation missions which I carried out during many conflicts, which very often occurred between brothers of the same country, are not driven by any ulterior motives or any calculations based on personal ambitions.”

Country Action Brother Conflict Ambition Missions Driven Motive Calculations Mediation Ulterior Motive

Author:Omar Bongo

“The whole society depends on creating ambition in you. Ambition means a conflict, ambition means that whatsoever you are, you are wrong - you have to be somewhere else. Wherever you are, you are wrong - you have to be somewhere else. A constant madness to be somewhere else, to be somebody else, is what ambition is.”

Mean Whole Depends Conflict Ambition Creating Madness Constant Somewhere Else Wherever You Are

Author:Rajneesh

“To resolve conflicts, excessive ambitions and one's own fears and aspirationis must be sacrificed.”

Conflict Ambition Resolve

Author:Zbigniew Brzezinski

“One moment it was there, another moment it is gone. One moment we are here, and another moment we have gone. And for this simple moment, how much fuss we make! How much violence, ambition, struggle, conflict, anger, hatred, just for this small moment! Just waiting for the train in a waiting room on a station, and creating so much fuss: fighting, hurting each other, trying to possess, trying to boss, trying to dominate - all that politics. And then the train comes and you are gone forever.”

Trying Moments Fighting Waiting Hurt Simple Rooms Struggle Gone Forever Violence Conflict Ambition Creating Hatred Train Stations Boss Waiting Rooms Small Moments Hurting Each Other

Author:Rajneesh

“How do you listen? Do you listen with your projections, through your projection, through your ambitions, desire, fears, anxieties, through hearing only what you want to hear, only what will be satisfactory, what will gratify, what will give comfort, what will for the moment alleviate your suffering? If you listen through the screen of your desires, then you obviously listen to your own voice.”

Ifs Want Giving Moments Desire Suffering Voice Healing Comfort Conflict Anxiety Ambition Hearing What You Want Screens Projection Alleviate

Author:Jiddu Krishnamurti