“My position as regards the monied interests can be put in a few words. In every civilized society property rights must be carefully safeguarded; ordinarily and in the great majority of cases, human rights and property rights are fundamentally and in the long run, identical; but when it clearly appears that there is a real conflict between them, human rights must have the upper hand; for property belongs to man and not man to property.” MenHumansLongRealHandsRunningPoliticsInterestCasesRightsPositionConflictRegardMajorityPropertyHuman RightsCivilizedLong RunsIdenticalProperty RightsFew WordsCivilized SocietyUpper Hand Author:Theodore Roosevelt
“The "environmental movement" is becoming an economic movement, is joining the social justice movement, is becoming a sustainability movement. It's leaving behind the "People's Needs versus Nature's Needs" conflict in favor of making the case for environmental health as the essential underpinning of prosperous and stable human civilization.” PeopleNeedsHumansSocialJusticeBehindsCasesEconomicMovementBecomingCivilizationConflictEssentialsSocial JusticeMental HealthEnvironmentalLeavingFavorsSustainabilityStableVersusProsperousJoiningHuman CivilizationEnvironmental Health Author:Edward Norton
“Steven Tepper's Not Here, Not Now, Not That! offers invaluable insights into how social change and uncertainty drive protests over art. With fresh data and perspectives, Tepper makes a compelling case that cultural conflicts are largely homegrown, tied to each community's shifting demographics and values. It's an eye-opening work.” ArtEyeValuesSocialCommunityCasesPerspectiveOffersConflictInsightOpeningDataUncertaintyProtestTiedCompellingSocial ChangeShiftingDemographicsInvaluableEye OpeningHomegrown Author:Ken Paulson
“The saddest symptom about many so-called Christians is the utter absence of anything like conflict and fight against spiritual apathy in their Christianity. They eat, they drink, they dress, they work, they amuse themselves, they get money, they spend money, they go through a brief round of formal religious services once or twice every week. But of the great spiritual warfare - its watchings and strugglings, its agonies and anxieties, its battles and contests - of all things they appear to know nothing at all. Let us take care that this case is not our own.” KnowsCareChristianSpiritualFightingReligiousChristianityCasesStruggleWeekDrinkBattleConflictAnxietyAll ThingsDressesRoundsTake CareAbsenceApathyAgonyWarfareFormalContestsSymptomsSaddestGet MoneySpiritual WarfareGreat Spiritual Author:J. C. Ryle
“In these long-standing conflicts, I find that most cases it gets resolved in about twenty minutes after each side can tell me the needs of the other.” NeedsLongSidesCasesMinutesCommunicationConflictStandingTwentiesNonviolent Communication Author:Marshall B. Rosenberg
“If someone does something we disapprove of, we regard him as bad if we believe we can deter him from persisting in his conduct, but we regard him as mad if we believe we cannot. In either case, the crucial issue is our control of the other: the more we lose control over him, and the more he assumes control over himself, the more, in case of conflict, we are likely to consider him mad rather than just bad.” IfsBelieveDoeLosesCasesIssuesConflictRegardMadAssumingCrucialNonconformity Book:The second sin Source: The second sin
“In the case of an airplane, speed is determined by the outcome of the conflict between thrust of the power and drag of the plane. So it also is with humans.” HumansCasesConflictDeterminedSpeedFlyingPlanesOutcomesAirplaneDragThrust Author:Jacqueline Cochran
“People say to us, look, it may well be the case that there are fewer wars and fewer genocides, but surely more people are being killed. But when we look at this, the number of people killed in wars involving a state every year, all the wars, and you can see there's a high point, that's the Korean war, and it keeps on going down and down and down. If you look at the average number of people killed per conflict per year, it goes from 37-thousand in 1950 to just 600 in 2002.” PeopleIfsYearsWellsLooksMayWarStatesNumbersCasesThousandConflictDown AndAverageGenocideFewerInvolvingKoreanHigh PointsKorean War Author:Andrew Mack
“It was a charming fantasy of romantics that the spies would stop spying, that political conflict would end and politicians would tell the truth. Unfortunately that has not been the case.” EndsPoliticalCasesFantasyDemocracyPoliticianConflictTelling The TruthCharmingSpy Author:John le Carre
“Law and justice are from time to time inevitably in conflict ... . The jury ... adjusts the general rule of law to the justice to the particular case. Thus the odium of inflexible rules of law is avoided, and popular satisfaction is preserved ... That is what jury trial does. It supplies that flexibility of legal rules which is essential to justice and popular contentment.” DoeLawJusticeCasesParticularConflictEssentialsSatisfactionTrialsContentmentFlexibilityAvoidedJuryRule Of LawSuppliesLaw And Justice Author:John Henry Wigmore
“[17th-century] Puritans were the first modern parents. Like many of us, they looked on their treatment of children as a test of their own self-control. Their goal was not to simply to ensure the child's duty to the family, but to help him or her make personal, individual commitments. They were the first authors to state that children must obey God rather than parents, in case of a clear conflict.” FirstsChildrenSelfStatesHelpingIndividualParentGoalCasesClearModernCenturyDutyConflictCommitmentTestsTreatmentSelf ControlPuritan17th Century Author:C. Sommerville
“In this case, Jane and Maura don't always agree on how to go about solving something. They both are very different in their approach and, a lot of times, that can lead to potential conflict, and then a debate in figuring out who and what is the right way to do it.” WayDifferentCasesConflictApproachAgreeDebateRight WayJane Author:Sasha Alexander
“Turkey's NATO membership is one thing that is forestalling the worst-case scenario - open conflict between Russia and Turkey - because neither Moscow nor the West wants a Russian NATO conflict to erupt.” WantCasesOne ThingWorstConflictWestRussiaTurkeysScenariosNatoMembershipMoscowWorst Case Scenario Author:Peter Kenyon
“As the great naturalist Charles Darwin saw clearly, individual and collective interests often coincide, as in the invisible hand narrative. But he also saw that in many other cases, interests at the two levels are squarely in conflict, and that in those cases, individual interests generally trump. That simple observation suggests that market failure is often the result not of insufficient competition (the traditional charge from social critics on the Left), but of the very logic of competition itself.” TwoHandsIndividualLeftSocialInterestSimpleLevelsResultsCasesSawsTrumpConflictLogicCompetitionCriticsInvisibleTraditionalObservationNarrativeCollectivesInsufficientNaturalistInvisible HandMarket Failure Author:Bob Frank
“As film-makers, it is very important for us to find common ground between cultures, and maybe that's less the case for politicians who benefit more from finding the conflicts and differences between us.” ImportantFilmCultureDifferencesCommonCasesPoliticianConflictBenefitsFindingsMakersCommon Ground Author:Abbas Kiarostami
“The Crimea is not a disputed territory. Unlike the case of Georgia and South Ossetia, there has been no ethnic conflict there.” Has BeensCasesConflictSouthTerritoryGeorgiaEthnic ConflictCrimea Author:Vladimir Putin
“While many of the established media make losses or go bankrupt, WikiLeaks has survived a major conflict with a superpower, including an unlawful economic blockade by its banks and credit card companies and the detention of its editor. We have no debts. We have not had to fire staff. We have never lost a court case related to our publishing. We have never been forced to censor. Adversity has hardened us.” LostLossCompanyCasesFireEconomicMediaConflictMajorsAdversityCourtIncludingCreditDebtCardsRelatedEditorsPublishingStaffSurvivedCredit CardSuperpowerHardenedWikileaksDetentionUnlawfulBlockadesCourt Cases Author:Julian Assange
“I disagreed with the way the court applied the Second Amendment in Heller's case, because what the District of Columbia was trying to do was to protect toddlers from guns and so they wanted people with guns to safely store them. And the court didn't accept that reasonable regulation, but they've accepted many others. So I see no conflict between saving people's lives and defending the Second Amendment.” PeopleWayTryingWantedAcceptingCasesProtectConflictGunCourtStoresAcceptedSavingReasonableAmendmentsRegulationSecond AmendmentColumbiaToddler Author:Hillary Clinton
“We have hitherto considered only two possibilities: that the received opinion may be false, and some other opinion, consequently, true; or that, the received opinion being true, a conflict with the opposite error is essential to a clear apprehension and deep feeling of its truth. But there is a commoner case than either of these; when the conflicting doctrines, instead of being one true and the other false, share the truth between them.” MayTwoFeelingsOpinionCasesClearSharePossibilityTruth IsConflictEssentialsOppositesErrorsDoctrineBeing TrueApprehensionDeep FeelingCommonersOthers Opinions Author:John Stuart Mill
“There's going to be a lot of remedies. [Donald Trump] is also subject to other conflicts laws.The bribery laws are intended to prevent conflicts, for example. He's subject to criminal law. He's subject to civil law. He's going to be subject to litigation. He's already in a lot of cases. This is going to come up in existing litigation and there's going to be new litigation.” LawCasesSubjectsExampleTrumpConflictCome UpCriminalsRemedyBriberyCriminal Law Author:Norman L. Eisen
“William R. Polk discusses the Spanish guerrilla war against Napoleon [ Bonaparte] and other cases where the conflict turns into a political war, and the invader, who usually has overwhelming power, loses because they can't fight the political war.” WarPoliticalTurnsFightingLosesCasesConflictOverwhelmingInvadersGuerrillasBonaparte Author:Noam Chomsky
“We shouldn't forget that in the case of Georgia, a problem was done away with that bothered [Vladimir] Putin personally - that is, the security during the Winter Olympics in Sochi in 2014. Security not in the sense of a guaranteed absence of a terror attack, but in pursuing the aim of moving hot spots of possible conflict farther from the site of the Olympic Games, which are to be held a stone's throw from Abkhazia - that is, in de jure Georgia.” DoneProblemMovingGamesForgetCasesSecurityConflictStonesHotAimWinterTerrorAbsenceSpotsOlympicsSiteBotheredPutinGeorgiaOlympic GamesTerror AttacksWinter OlympicsSochi Author:Garry Kasparov
“If you ask why start-ups outperform established enterprises when it comes to catching the next wave, the answer is that they are not conflicted. Everyone is rowing in the same direction. That is never the case in a company that has a portfolio of businesses at different stages in their maturity. So the key to winning there has to be to "zone out" the conflicts - sort of like sending quarrelling children each to their own room.” IfsChildrenDifferentNextAsksWinningAnswersRoomsCompanyCasesStageKeysConflictWaveMaturityEnterpriseZoneCatchingRowingPortfolios Author:Geoffrey Moore
“What is the influence of Sun Tzu in the world today? Perhaps there are others who are better qualified than I to speculate about that question. Sun Tzu's ideas, as expressed in his famous treatise, have undoubtedly influenced the nature of many revolutionary movements that are arrayed against more powerful forces, and in some cases - as in Vietnam - have played a useful role in bringing about success. But such ideas are always in conflict with other deepseated emotional factors, which propel dissident movements into the rampant use of terrorism and other forms of anarchistic struggle.” WorldIdeasUseTodayFormForcePowerfulRolesCasesStruggleSunInfluenceMovementEmotionalConflictTerrorismFactorsRevolutionaryVietnamQualifiedWorld TodayNature Of ManDissidentsAbout Success Author:William J. Duiker
“Being an older person now, I'm finding that people are calling me to play various things. Variations on the theme of mother, caretaker, and in some cases, doctors, heads of organizations and things like that. For some people, I'm finally old enough to play those roles. We see men playing them when they're a little bit younger, and also in roles that call for some form of conflict and violence, either generating it or trying to curtail it. Women don't seem to be a big part of those common and often used movie themes.” PeopleMenTryingLittlesPersonsEnoughPlayBigsSeemsFormUsedMotherBitsCommonRolesCasesViolenceCallingConflictFindingsLittle BitDoctorsOrganizationVariousThemeVariationCaretakers Author:Barbara Crampton
“Republicans are for both the man and the dollar, but in case of conflict the man before the dollar.” MenCasesRepublicanConflictDollars Book:Lincoln: Political Writings and Speeches Source: Lincoln: Political Writings and Speeches
“Two children of same cruel parent look at one another and see in each other the image of the cruel parent or the image of their past oppressor. This is very much the case between Jew and Arab: It's a conflict between two victims.” LooksChildrenTwoPastParentCasesConflictVictimJewOppressors Author:Amos Oz
“We've got a generation now who were born with semiequality. They don't know how it was before, so they think, this isn't too bad. We're working. We have our attache' cases and our three piece suits. I get very disgusted with the younger generation of women. We had a torch to pass, and they are just sitting there. They don't realize it can be taken away. Things are going to have to get worse before they join in fighting the battle.” ThinkingKnowsFightingThreeRealizingBornCasesKnow HowTakenPiecesGenerationsFeminismBattleConflictSittingSuitsMemorableTorchesYounger GenerationDisgusted Author:Erma Bombeck
“Recently there's been a trend to apply the term "bullying" to any kind of conflict at work, for example overwork and long hours. Although some bullying behaviours may be present in these issues, in my view this dilutes and devalues the term "workplace bullying" which should be used only for the more serious cases of conflict involving a serial bully. If there isn't a serial bully involved, it's probably not bullying you're dealing with.” IfsShouldKindMayLongUsedTermHoursViewsCasesIssuesExampleSeriousInvolvedConflictBullyingTrendsBehaviourWorkplaceBullyInvolvingSerialsLong HoursOverworkDevalue Author:Tim Field
“The idea of full dress in preparation for a battle comes not from a belief that it will add to the fighting ability. The preparation is for death, in case that should be the result of the conflict. Every Indian wants to look his best when he goes to meet the Great Spirit, so the dressing up is done whether in imminent danger is an oncoming battle or a sickness or injury at times of peace.” WantShouldLooksIdeasDoneDeathSpiritFightingBeliefAbilityResultsCasesDangerBattleConflictDressesAddPreparationIndianInjurySicknessNativeNative AmericanDressingsDressing UpGreat SpiritNative AmericaNative American IndianGreat Native AmericanNative American Earth Author:Wooden Leg