“Fiction is love and hate and agreement and conflict and common adventure, not lonely musings on have-beens and might-have-beens.” Has BeensMightHateCommonFictionAdventureConflictLonelyAgreementMight Have BeenLove And HateMusings Book:The Blue Hen's Chick: An Autobiography Source: The Blue Hen's Chick: An Autobiography
“The belief that value judgments are not subject, in the last analysis, to rational control, encourages the inclination to make irresponsible assertions regarding right and wrong or good and bad. One evades discussion of serious issues by the simple device of passing them off as value problems, whereas, to say the least, many of these conflicts arose out of man's very agreement regarding values.” MenProblemLastsValuesBeliefSimpleIssuesSubjectsSeriousConflictJudgmentPassingRationalPassingsDiscussionAnalysisAgreementDevicesInclinationGood And BadIrresponsibleAssertionSerious Issues Book:What is Political Philosophy? And Other Studies Source: What is Political Philosophy? And Other Studies
“Conflict is just another chance for agreement.” ChanceConflictAgreementAnother Chance Author:Ken Poirot
“If you ask me 'What is the one great move you can make to improve the Israeli economy?' of course it will be signing an agreement with the Arab world about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. This will change everything.” IfsWorldMovingCoursesAsksChangeEconomyConflictAsk MeAgreementPalestinianThings ChangeIsraeliSigningArab WorldIsraeli Palestinian Conflict Author:Yair Lapid
“The argument culture urges us to approach the world-and the people in it-in an adversarial frame of mind. It rests on the assumption that opposition is the best way to get anything done: Conflict and opposition are as necessary as cooperation and agreement, but the scale is off balance, with conflict and opposition over-weighted.” PeopleWorldWayMindDoneCultureBalanceConflictApproachArgumentScalesBest WayAssumptionOppositionUrgesAgreementCooperationFrame Of Mind Author:Deborah Tannen
“In Japanese organizations, before you have a meeting and you've got an idea that you want to get across, you go talk to everyone and list them. And then the meeting, you don't do it American style where everyone gets up and advocates and conflicts and decides, you get up and formalize agreements.” WantIdeasStyleConflictOrganizationMeetingsListsGet UpAgreement Author:Howard Rheingold
“I commended Angela [Merkel] for her leadership along with President Hollande in working to resolve the conflict in Ukraine. We continued to stand with the people of Ukraine and for the basic principle that nations have a right to determine their own destiny and we discussed the importance of maintaining sanctions until Russia fully complies with the Minsk Agreement.” PeopleNationsPresidentPrinciplesDestinyConflictImportanceDetermineRussiaAgreementResolveMaintainingUkraineSanctionsBasic PrinciplesAngela Author:Barack Obama
“I wish to assure you that there can never be any return to the state of armed conflict which existed before our commitment to peace and the democratic process of election under the Lancaster House agreement.” StatesHouseWishProcessReturnConflictCommitmentElectionDemocraticAgreementDemocratic ProcessArmed ConflictLancaster Author:Robert Mugabe