“What we try to do as Elders is help those who are trying to change their own societies and communities for the better. We hope that by supporting the good work that is being done, especially at the grass roots, we can help to alleviate the suffering of human beings. That is our core mission - to draw attention to the impact that conflict, injustice and poverty have on ordinary people.” PeopleTryingHumansDoneHelpingSufferingCommunityHuman BeingsAttentionPovertyConflictDrawsOrdinaryRootsImpactInjusticeMissionsCoreGrassGood WorkOrdinary PeopleEldersBeing DoneTrying To ChangeAlleviate Author:Desmond Tutu
“Never think that wars are irrational catastrophes: they happen when wrong ways of thinking and living bring about intolerable situations ... the root causes of conflict are usually to be found in some wrong way of life in which all parties have acquiesced, and for which everybody must, to some extent, bear the blame.” ThinkingWayWarHappensFoundCausesPartySituationBearsConflictRootsBlameIrrationalCatastropheWay Of ThinkingWrong WayRoot CauseCauses Of Conflict Author:Dorothy L. Sayers
“There is some conflict between religion and science in my world, but that's nothing new. Science, at its root, is a rational discipline. Religion, on the other hand, is fundamentally trans-rational. Both of them attempt to solve problems, but since their methodology is vastly different, they can't help but come into conflict.” WorldDifferentHelpingProblemHandsDisciplineConflictRootsSolveRationalScience And ReligionTransNothing NewMethodology Author:Patrick Rothfuss
“The roots of the Palestinian conflict must be sought in history. The Holocaust and Palestine are directly connected with one another. And if the Holocaust actually occurred, then you should permit impartial groups from the whole world to research this. Why do you restrict the research to a certain group? Of course, I don't mean you, but rather the European governments.” IfsWorldShouldMeanWholeGovernmentCertainCoursesGroupsConflictResearchRootsConnectedWhole WorldPermitHolocaustPalestinianPalestine Author:Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
“You see, when you're in love, you look for similarities with your beloved. Since the root of all conflict is seeing differences between yourself and another, love truly seems to be the key to eliminating conflict.” LooksSeemsDifferencesSeeingLove YouKeysConflictRootsBelovedSimilarityEliminating Author:Doreen Virtue
“My core competency has really informed my painting. The roots of editing stem from classical paintings - classic painters intended to drive your eye from this conflict to that intrigue, ending with a caprice. That is a montage, that is editing. It became a flipbook in later generations.” EyeGenerationsPaintingConflictRootsCorePainterClassicStemEditingIntrigueCapriceCompetencies Author:Billy Zane
“Duality is the real root of our suffering and of all our conflicts” RealSufferingConflictRootsDualityDualism Author:Namkhai Norbu
“Each of us needs to eliminate our anger, fear and greed. The roots of social conflicts and political tensions are in personal anger, fear and greed.” NeedsPoliticalSocialConflictRootsGreedTension Author:Satish Kumar
“No ideology can help to create a new world or a new mind or a new human being -- because ideological orientation itself is the root cause of all the conflicts and all the miseries. Thought creates boundaries, thought creates divisions and thought creates prejudices; thought itself cannot bridge them. That's why all ideologies fail. Now man must learn to live without ideologies religious, political or otherwise. When the mind is not tethered to any ideology, it is free to move to new understandings. And in that freedom flowers all that is good and all that is beautiful.” MenWorldMindHumansHelpingBeautifulMovingPoliticalCausesUnderstandingReligiousHuman BeingsFailingFlowerConflictRootsPrejudiceMiseryBoundariesIdeologyBridgesDivisionNew WorldIdeologicalOrientationRoot Cause Author:Rajneesh