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“Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.”

Source: The Politics of Education: Culture, Power, and Liberation

“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.”

“The gap between rich and poor is, in fact, widening enormously. This idea of building up the powers of people who are already powerful and keeping everyone else back is a recipe for endless misery and conflict.”

People Ideas Facts Poor Powerful Rich Building Conflict Misery Endless Gaps Recipes Rich And Poor Building Up

Author:Robert Wyatt

“Peace is not merely the absence of visible conflict.”

“The common meaning of gratitude is to be thankful for benefits received. While this is important, I feel that the energy of gratitude is one of the most powerful attracting forces in the universe. A heart filled with Thanksgiving, even when appearances tell us that we are mired in scarcity, conflict, and affliction, moves us to a higher frequency in consciousness and we soon witness reality shining through the illusion.”

“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.”

“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.”

“It is better to be loved rather than feared, or feared rather than loved? It might perhaps be answered that we should wish to be both: but since love and fear can hardly exist together, if we must choose between them, it is far safer to be feared than loved.”

Ifs Love Political Powerful Conflict Humorous Witty Hustle

Book:The Prince

Source: The Prince

“Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.”

“Each of us has interests which conflict the interests of everybody else... 'everybody else' we call 'society'. It's a powerful opponent and it always wins. Oh, here and there an individual prevails for a while and gets what he wants. Sometimes he storms the culture of a society and changes it to his own advantage. But society wins in the long run, for it has the advantage of numbers and of age.”

Want Long Sometimes Running Age Culture Winning Individual Interest Powerful Numbers Conflict Advantage Storm Opponents Long Runs Here And There

Book:WALDEN TWO

Source: WALDEN TWO

“Hope, in its stronger forms, is a great deal more powerful stimulans to life than any sort of realized joy can ever be. Man must be sustained in suffering by a hope so high that no conflict with actuality can dash it - so high, indeed, that no fulfilment can satisfy it: a hope reaching out beyond this world.”

Men World Form Joy Suffering Hope Deals Powerful This World Conflict Stronger Reaching Reach Out Fulfilment Actuality

Book:The Antichrist

Source: The Antichrist

“We need to learn and to show others that there are tried and tested, powerful ways of containing and resolving conflict which do not require the use of force.”

Way Needs Use Shows Force Peace Powerful Conflict Resolve Resolution Tested Containing Win Win Use Of Force Resolving Conflict

Author:Scilla Elworthy

“Wherever a people have grown savage in arms so that human laws have no longer any place among it, the only powerful means of reducing it is religion.”

People Humans Mean War Law Powerful Arms Conflict Savages Reducing

Author:Georgie Henley