“This swallowing up of life in nothingness, this obliteration of life by nothingness is what the emotion of malice ultimately desires. The eternal conflict between love and malice is the eternal contest between life and death. And this contest is what the complex vision reveals, as it moves from darkness to darkness.” MovingDesireEmotionVisionDarknessConflictEternalComplexesLife And DeathNothingnessContestsMaliceSwallowingBetween Life And Death Book:The Complex Vision Source: The Complex Vision
“The war industries in many countries and the enormous trade in weapons of all kinds generate corruption and fuel conflict throughout the world. The existence of an immensely powerful military-industrial complex constitutes a danger to democracy, both internationally and domestically, because it follows its own logic and operates independently of popular participation.” WorldKindWarCountryPowerfulExistenceDemocracyMilitaryDangerIndustryConflictWeaponsLogicTradeComplexesCorruptionEnormousAll KindsFuelParticipationMilitary Industrial Complex Author:Alfred-Maurice de Zayas
“Incivility is a symptom, not the disease. We've always had partisan conflict in Congress, and we always will. Yet when I worked for a year (1970-71) on the staff of Sen. Ed Muskie of Maine, this was a different place, more collegial, more sensitive to data, more concerned about all of the American people. I think because the for-profit media prizes conflict above cooperation and sound bites above analysis, politicians have learned to adapt to those tendencies. Consequently, our public debates are dumbed down as our problems grow more complex.” PeopleThinkingYearsDifferentProblemGrowsSoundMediaPoliticianConflictDiseaseConcernedComplexesCongressProfitDebateTendenciesDataAnalysisSensitivePrizeCooperationBitesStaffSymptomsDifferent PlacePartisansMaineSound BitesIncivility Author:Tom Allen
“Cartoons for girls don't have to be a puddle of smooshy, cutesy-wootsy, goody-two-shoeness. Girls like stories with real conflict; girls are smart enough to understand complex plots; girls aren't as easily frightened as everyone seems to think.” ThinkingTwoRealEnoughStoriesSeemsGirlConflictSmartComplexesPlotFrightenedCartoonPuddles Author:Lauren Faust
“Morality is not a simple set of rules. It's a very complex struggle of conflicting patterns of values. This conflict is the residue of evolution. As new patters evolve they come into conflict with old ones. Each stage of evolution creates in its wake a wash of problems.” ProblemValuesSimpleStruggleStageEvolutionMoralityConflictComplexesPatternsEvolve Book:LILA An Inquriry into Morals Source: LILA An Inquriry into Morals
“A hallmark of high performance leaders is the ability to influence others through all levels and types of communication, from simple interactions to difficult conversations and more complex conflicts, in order to achieve greater team and organizational alignment. High performing leaders are able to unite diverse team members by building common goals and even shared emotions by engaging in powerful and effective dialogue.” AbleOrderDifficultGoalSimpleAbilityLevelsPowerfulCommonEmotionLeaderGreaterTeamInfluenceAchieveBuildingCommunicationTypeConversationConflictMembersPerformancesComplexesDialoguePerformingInteractionDiverseEngagingAlignmentHallmarkOrganizationalTeam MemberCommon GoalDifficult ConversationsDiverse Teams Author:George Kohlrieser
“To say that we're going to end countries or eradicate terrorism, and that it's a long war over many years, with many different instruments, suggests a much more complex and drawn-out conflict for which, I think, most Americans aren't prepared.” ThinkingYearsLongDifferentWarEndsCountryConflictInstrumentsPreparedComplexesTerrorism Author:Edward Said
“I understand that words can mean different things to different people, and, further, that people can have different relationships with complex abstract entities such as Buddhism. To me, anyway, the entity in my life that conflicts with my creativity is Buddhism.” PeopleMeanDifferentCreativityBuddhismConflictComplexesAbstractDifferent ThingsEntityDifferent PeoplesDifferent Relationships Author:Quentin S. Crisp
“I accept the global complex and global trade more than do some of my liberal colleagues because I consider this a wise alternative to national tension and conflict.” AcceptingWiseConflictTradeComplexesAlternativesTensionColleagues Author:John Kenneth Galbraith
“Is war an inevitable outcome of competing interests in a complex society? In other words, would war be the same even if human nature were very different? There are mathematical models of large groups working together that lead to conflict on a reliable basis. So there's a whole other view of war that is not psychological at all.” IfsHumansDifferentWarWholeTogetherInterestViewsGroupsHuman NatureConflictModelsBasesComplexesPsychologicalMathematicalInevitableOutcomesWorking TogetherCompetingLarge GroupsMathematical Models Author:Jaron Lanier
“You do not become a ''dissident'' just because you decide one day to take up this most unusual career. You are thrown into it by your personal sense of responsibility, combined with a complex set of external circumstances. You are cast out of the existing structures and placed in a position of conflict with them. It begins as an attempt to do your work well, and ends with being branded an enemy of society.” WellsEndsResponsibilityEnemyCareersPositionCircumstancesOne DayConflictStructureComplexesCastsThrownPatriotismUnusualDissentSense Of ResponsibilityDissidentsBranded Author:Vaclav Havel
“The philosopher Descartes believed he had found the most fundamental truth when he made his famous statement: "I think, therefore I am." He had, in fact, given expression to the most basic error: to equate thinking with Being and identity with thinking. The compulsive thinker, which means almost everyone, lives in a state of apparent separateness, in an insanely complex world of continuous problems and conflict, a world that reflects the ever-increasing fragmentation of the mind.” ThinkingWorldMindMeanMadeStatesFactsProblemFoundGivenIdentityExpressionConflictFundamentalsErrorsComplexesPhilosopherStatementsThinkerSeparatenessFragmentation Author:Eckhart Tolle
“Negrophobes exist. It is not hatred of the Negro, however, that motivates them; they lack the courage for that, or they have lost it. Hate is not inborn; it has to be constantly cultivated, to be brought into being, in conflict with more or less recognized guilt complexes. Hate demands existence and he who hates has to show his hate in appropriate actions and behavior; in a sense, he has to become hate. That is why Americans have substituted discrimination for lynching. Each to his own side of the street.” ShowsActionHateLostSidesExistenceStreetsDemandConflictBehaviorHatredGuiltComplexesDiscriminationAppropriateLynching Book:Black Skin, White Masks Source: Black Skin, White Masks