“Thank God, I think no one is thinking of unleashing a large-scale conflict with Russia. I want to remind you that Russia is one of the leading nuclear powers.” ThinkingWantConflictNuclearScalesRussiaThank GodNuclear PowerLarge ScaleUnleashing Author:Vladimir Putin
“Libertarians have always battled the age-old scourge of war. They understood that war brought death and destruction on a grand scale, disrupted family and economic life, and put more power in the hands of the ruling class - which might explain why the rulers did not always share the popular sentiment for peace. Free men and women, of course, have often had to defend their own societies against foreign threats; but throughout history, war has usually been the common enemy of peaceful, productive people on all sides of the conflict.” PeopleMenWarHandsMightAgeCoursesSidesCommonEnemyClassShareEconomicConflictUnderstoodMen And WomenDestructionThreatLibertarianScalesPeacefulProductiveSentimentsRulersRulingFree ManScourgeCommon Enemy Book:The Libertarian Mind: A Manifesto for Freedom Source: The Libertarian Mind: A Manifesto for Freedom
“A host of positive psychological changes inevitably will result from widespread economic security. The dignity of the individual will flourish when the decisions concerning his life are in his own hands, when he has the means to seek self-improvement. Personal conflicts among husbands, wives and children will diminish when the unjust measurement of human worth on the scale of dollars is eliminated.” HumansMeanChildrenSelfWisdomHandsPoliticsIndividualDecisionResultsEconomyWifeEconomicSecurityHusbandConflictSelf ImprovementDignityDollarsImprovementScalesPsychologicalLiberalismHostUnjustDiminishMeasurementEconomic JusticeEconomic SecurityHusband Wife Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.
“The problems raised by a conscious direction of economic affairs on a national scale inevitably assume even greater dimensions when the same is attempted internationally. The conflict between planning and freedom cannot but become more serious as the similarity of standards and values among those submitted to a unitary plan diminishes.” ProblemValuesGreaterPlansEconomicSeriousConflictStandardsConsciousAssumingRaisedAffairScalesPlanningDimensionsDiminishSimilarityStandards And Values Author:Friedrich August von Hayek
“The argument culture urges us to approach the world-and the people in it-in an adversarial frame of mind. It rests on the assumption that opposition is the best way to get anything done: Conflict and opposition are as necessary as cooperation and agreement, but the scale is off balance, with conflict and opposition over-weighted.” PeopleWorldWayMindDoneCultureBalanceConflictApproachArgumentScalesBest WayAssumptionOppositionUrgesAgreementCooperationFrame Of Mind Author:Deborah Tannen
“I think the scale of the conflict [in Afghanistan] has dramatically changed in 2003. You're now facing a much more motivated, well-supported enemy. I don't see any quick end to this thing.” ThinkingWellsEndsEnemyChangedConflictScalesMotivatedAfghanistan Author:Khaled Hosseini
“When you are in deep conflict about something, sometimes the most trivial thing can tip the scales.” SometimesConflictScalesCornyTrivial Things Book:Merman: an autobiography Source: Merman: an autobiography
“Climate change could produce a lot of misery and waste without necessarily leading to large-scale armed conflict, which depends more on ideology and bad governance than on resource scarcity.” ProduceDependsConflictWasteResourcesMiseryClimateClimate ChangeScalesIdeologyGovernanceScarcityLarge ScaleArmed Conflict Author:Steven Pinker
“Life, it is true, can be grasped in all its confused futility merely by opening one's eyes and sitting passively, a spectator on the stands of history - but to understand the social processes and conflicts, the interplay between individual and group, even the physicality of human experience, we have need of small-scale models.” NeedsHumansEyeIndividualSocialProcessGroupsConflictModelsSittingScalesOpeningConfusedHuman ExperienceSpectatorsFutilityPhysicalityFutility Of Life Author:Will Self
“Given the scale of life in the cosmos, one human life is no more than a tiny blip. Each one of us is a just visitor to this planet, a guest, who will only stay for a limited time. What greater folly could there be than to spend this short time alone, unhappy or in conflict with our companions? Far better, surely, to use our short time here in living a meaningful life, enriched by our sense of connection with others and being of service to them.” InspirationalHumansUseLife IsGivenGreaterPlanetsConflictConnectionsTinyMeaningfulScalesUnhappyHuman LifeFollyCosmosCompanionGuestsMeaningful LifeVisitorsShort TimeAlone TimeLimited Time Author:Dalai Lama
“We all wake up in the morning wanting to live our lives the way we know we should. But we usually don't, in small ways. That's what makes a character like Batman so fascinating. He plays out our conflicts on a much larger scale.” KnowsWayShouldPlayCharacterMorningOur LivesConflictWake UpScalesFascinating Author:Christopher Nolan