“Dogmas take endless forms, and when you can persuade different people to hold opposing dogmas, the manipulation of conflict and control through "divide and rule" becomes easy. It is happening today in the same way - more so, in fact - as it has throughout human history.” PeopleWayHumansDifferentFactsTodayFormEasyConflictHappeningsEndlessManipulationDividesDogmaHuman HistoryDifferent PeoplesOpposing Book:--and the Truth Shall Set You Free Source: --and the Truth Shall Set You Free
“Temperamentally, the writer exists on happenings, on contacts, conflicts, action and reaction, speed, pressure, tension. Were he acontemplative purely, he would not write.” ThinkingWritingActionConflictHappeningsPressureSpeedReactionsContactTensionThoughtfulAction And Reaction Book:The Mulberry Tree Source: The Mulberry Tree
“I started doing some more specific research on Wales in that period because I like the idea of being authentic to the territory, and with that came the knowledge that there was this great rebellion that was happening with the Marcher barons and conflict with the king. A lot of it wasn't documented by the English.” IdeasKingsPeriodsConflictHappeningsResearchRebellionTerritoryWalesBeing Authentic Author:Kurt Sutter
“When things are not working for us, instead of fighting and struggling, we need to say, "What's happening here? How am I not being true to who I am? What is pulling me away from my purpose?"” NeedsPurposeFightingHealingStruggleConflictHappeningsWho I AmBeing TruePulling Author:June Singer
“When we look at what's going on in the world and we see the immense level of conflict that seems to always be happening - you can always trace it back to competing narratives.” WorldLooksSeemsLevelsConflictHappeningsNarrativeImmenseCompeting Author:Steven Soderbergh
“One of the tricks is to have the exposition conveyed in a scene of conflict, so that a character is forced to say things you want the audience to know - as, for example, if he is defending himself against somebody's attack, his words of defense seem Justified even though his words are actually expository words. Something appears to be happening, so the audience believes it is witnessing a scene (which it is), not listening to expository speeches. Humor is another way of getting exposition across.” IfsKnowsWayWantBelieveCharacterSeemsAudienceExampleListeningSceneConflictSpeechHappeningsDefenseTricksJustifiedAnother Way Author:Ernest Lehman
“It is a fact that many of the wars and conflicts happening all over the world are aggravated or fought strictly for geopolitical fossil fuel energy interests, and many of the world's most dangerous regimes are funded by fossil fuel dollars.” WorldWarFactsEnergyInterestDangerousConflictHappeningsDollarsFuelRegimesFossilsFossil FuelGeopoliticalAggravated Author:Mark Ruffalo
“I get most my information about what's happening in the United States from reports and studies, which are often in conflict with what you read on the editorial pages, or handouts from right wing institutions like the American Enterprise Institute.” StatesUnitedUnited StatesStudyInformationConflictPagesHappeningsInstitutionsWingsEnterpriseReportsRight WingInstituteEditorialsHandouts Author:Ishmael Reed
“What many fail to realize is that being attached to what we think we want and don't have while resisting what is happening in the moment is the cause, not the cure, of much personal suffering and interpersonal conflict.” ThinkingWantMomentsSufferingCausesRealizingFailingConflictHappeningsCuresResistingInterpersonal Author:Lee L Jampolsky
“What's kind of happening is the conflict over football might be a class conflict where there is a percentage of people who have no relationship to physicality and a percentage of the populace who still does.” PeopleKindDoeStillsMightClassFootballConflictHappeningsPercentagesPhysicalityClass Conflict Author:Chuck Klosterman
“When I was a child, we seemed to be living in a world remote from the rest of the world. But television has made a great difference to all of us. If something happens where I live, you see it tomorrow or perhaps even at the same time it is happening there. It's not "one world" in the sense that conflicts are resolved in the world. But we are more one world in that we know what is going on and are psychologically influenced by what goes on around us.” IfsKnowsWorldChildrenMadeHappensDifferencesTelevisionGoes OnTomorrowConflictHappeningsThings Happen Author:Nadine Gordimer
“We oppress people, we make our victims small wherever they are, whether they are a black girl in a rural community in, say, America or Britain, or whether it's something happening out there in one of the countries of conflict. I mean Sri Lanka, the human rights abuse there is appalling.” PeopleHumansMeanCountryAmericaGirlBlackCommunityRightsConflictHappeningsAbuseVictimHuman RightsBritainSri LankaBlack GirlRural Communities Author:Roma Tearne