“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.” ThinkingNeedsKindDreamActionFormValuesKindnessViolenceTalentConflictAmbitionEverydayResolutionNurturingConflict ResolutionUsing Your Talents Author:Gloria Steinem
“Obama dreams of a society without power relations, without the agonism that constitutes political life. Against such a position one might assert that justice is always an agon, a conflict, and to refuse this assertion is to consign human beings to wallow in some emotional, fusional balm.” HumansDreamMightPoliticalJusticeHuman BeingsPositionEmotionalConflictRelationRefuseAssertionPolitical Life Author:Simon Critchley
“Creativity is an attempt to resolve a conflict generated by unexpressed biological impulses, such that unfulfilled desires are the driving force of the imagination, and they fuel our dreams and daydreams.” DreamDesireForceImaginationCreativityConflictDrivingImpulseFuelResolveOur DreamsDaydreamingDriving ForceUnfulfilled Desires Author:Sigmund Freud
“I'm a long time [Scott] Fitzgerald fan, as probably everyone in America is. And I've always been fascinated by that theme of, what is the price of the American dream and what parts of your soul do you walk away with? The conflict of art versus commerce was also very interesting to me.” LongArtSoulDreamAmericaWalksInterestingFansConflictLong TimeYour SoulThemeFascinatedAmerican DreamCommerceVersusVery InterestingScott Fitzgerald Author:Matt Bomer
“Literature gives us models of living human beings who may not agree with us and even be our enemies. D. H. Lawrence said that the purpose of literature was to expand our sympathies. To be a human being is to be in a state of tension between your appetites and your dreams, and the social realities around you and your obligations to your fellow man. And this conflict cannot be easily reconciled. The tension is always there as a kind of a pain in the human condition.” MenGivingKindDreamRealityPainPurposeLiteratureEnemyConflictAgreeObligationTensionHuman Condition Author:John Updike
“The EU remains our dream. We must not give it up. Otherwise Putin would win. His goal is to undermine the EU. This is not only about a conflict between Russia and Ukraine. Russia is fighting against the West and its values. Therefore, the European project of Ukraine must not fail. We know that this aim requires successful reforms in Ukraine, even if they hurt now.” GivingDreamValuesFightingWinningGoalHurtSuccessfulFailingConflictAim Author:Arseniy Yatsenyuk
“If you dream of something worth doing and then simply go to work on it and don't think anything of personalities, or emotional conflicts, or of money, or of family distractions; it is amazing how quickly you get through those 5,000 steps.” IfsThinkingDreamStepsEmotionalPersonalityConflictMadnessDistraction Author:Edwin Land
“I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in.” MenWarDreamYoungDiesPeaceViolenceMilitaryYouthBattleConflictEarsHistoricalSoldierYoung ManFedsOld ManAnti WarAntiwarWorld War ISenatorsPeace WarNo WarFed UpWorld War 1Just WarWar VeteranMilitary SoldierSoldiers At WarAnti War MovementWars And BattlesBlind Acceptance Author:George McGovern