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“Positive change always encounters resistance, conflict, and obstacles. We must embrace difficult and heated situations in life, for that is the method of igniting our reactions in order to transform them.”

Order Difficult Change Situation Conflict Method Embrace Obstacles Reactions Resistance Encounters Positive Change Situations In Life

Author:Yehuda Berg

“The scientific-religious conflict ultimately is a conflict between allegiance to this method and allegiance to even an irreducible minimum of belief so fixed in advance that it can never be modified.”

Belief Religious Atheism Conflict Method Fixed Minimum Allegiance Religious Conflict

Book:James and Dewey on Belief and Experience

Source: James and Dewey on Belief and Experience

“The method of democracy is to bring conflicts out into the open where their special claims can be seen and appraised, where they can be discussed and judged.”

Democracy Special Conflict Claims Method Judged

Book:The Political Writings

Source: The Political Writings

“Our first and most pressing problem is how to do away with warfare as a method of solving conflicts between national groups or between groups within a society who have different views about how the society is to be run. If you look back, you will see that warfare was an invention, just as ways of handling government or taxes are inventions. You will see, too, that once people use an invention they go on using it until they find another which they think is superior.”

People Ifs Thinking Way Firsts Looks Different War Use Problem Government Running Views Groups Goes On Conflict Taxes Method Invention Superiors Warfare Different Views

Book:PEOPLE AND PLACES

Source: PEOPLE AND PLACES

“The very idea that there is some kind of conflict between science and religion is completely mistaken. Science is a method for investigating experience... Religion is the fundamental, necessary internalization of our system of more permanent values.”

Kind Ideas Values Conflict Method Fundamentals Permanent Mistaken Science And Religion Investigating

Author:Carroll Quigley

“Conflicts between nations will continue to arise. The real issue is whether they are to be resolved by force, or by resort to peaceful methods and procedures, administered by impartial institutions.”

Real Force Nations Issues Conflict Method Institutions Arise Peaceful Resorts Procedures

Author:Haile Selassie

“Because in traditional Hindu culture menstruation is associated with a variety of social taboos, prolonged menstrual bleeding produced conflicts within families. The whole idea of fertility regulation was still extremely new in this setting and many husbands and other family members were angry when they found out that women had decided on their own to use the method and had gone to the clinic in secret.”

“Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.”

Source: The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.:

“The courts of this country should not be the places where resolution of disputes begins. They should be the places where the disputes end after alternative methods of resolving disputes have been considered and tried.”

Should Has Beens Ends Country Conflict Method Court Alternatives Resolution Disputes Conflict Resolution Mediation Mediators

Author:Sandra Day O'Connor

“Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time: the need for man to overcome oppression and violence without resorting to oppression and violence. Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.”

Source: The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.:

“Our first and most pressing problem is how to do away with warfare as a method of solving conflicts between national groups within a society who have different views about how the society is to run.”

Firsts Different Problem Running Views Groups Conflict Method Warfare Different Views

Book:PEOPLE AND PLACES

Source: PEOPLE AND PLACES

“I am arguing that faith as such, faith as an alleged method of acquiring knowledge, is totally invalid and as a consequence, all propositions of faith, because they lack rational demonstration, must conflict with reason.”

Reason Religion Atheism Conflict Consequence Method Arguing Rational Propositions Demonstration Acquiring Knowledge

Book:Atheism: The Case Against God

Source: Atheism: The Case Against God

“Instead of suppressing conflicts, specific channels could be created to make this conflict explicit, and specific methods could be set up by which the conflict is resolved.”

Conflict Method Explicit Conflict Resolution Suppressing Resolving Conflict Workplace Conflict

Book:Zen and creative management

Source: Zen and creative management