“There are certainly beliefs in traditional Buddhism that conflict with basic principles of scientific understanding, .. We can't make sense of those beliefs in any kind of scientific framework.” KindBeliefUnderstandingPrinciplesBuddhismConflictTraditionalMake SenseFrameworkBasic Principles Author:Richard Davidson
“This society in which knowledge workers dominate is in danger of a new "class conflict" between the large minority of knowledge workers and the majority of workers who will make their livings through traditional ways, either by manual work... or by service work. The productivity of knowledge work - still abysmally low - will predictably become the economic challenge of the knowledge society. On it will depend the ability of the knowledge society to give decent incomes, and with them dignity and status, to non knowledge people.” PeopleWayGivingStillsChallengesAbilityClassEconomicDangerDependsConflictLowsDignityMajorityWorkersProductivityIncomeTraditionalDecentMinoritiesManualsThis SocietyKnowledge WorkersClass ConflictNew ClassManual Work Author:Peter Drucker
“An idea is growing in foreign policy circles in Washington ... that there is no turning back. We are stuck in Iraq and Afghanistan for 25 to 40 years, we are embedded in our prideful unilateralism, and nothing can return us to more traditional American values and principles of action. The hubristic creators of this "inevitability" planned it this way. ... Their failures in Iraq have not stopped the fanatic, power-hungry neoconservatives. ... The hard-liners who dominate this administration ... have led us to eternal conflict with Muslims.” WayYearsIdeasWarHardActionReligionValuesPrinciplesPowerGrowingPolicyReturnConflictEternalIraqCreatorCirclesStuckHungryTraditionalAdministrationAfghanistanForeign PolicyFanaticsEmbeddedInevitabilityAmerican ValuesNo Turning BackPower HungryUnilateralism Author:Georgie Anne Geyer
“During conflicts and tense situations, women often work in a more collaborative way, include a larger variety of viewpoints, and function more frequently outside traditional hierarchical means. Women leaders often take a consolidated and reconciliatory position in the society.” WayMeanSituationLeaderPositionConflictFunctionTraditionalVarietyTenseViewpointsWoman Leader Author:Dalia Grybauskaite
“As the great naturalist Charles Darwin saw clearly, individual and collective interests often coincide, as in the invisible hand narrative. But he also saw that in many other cases, interests at the two levels are squarely in conflict, and that in those cases, individual interests generally trump. That simple observation suggests that market failure is often the result not of insufficient competition (the traditional charge from social critics on the Left), but of the very logic of competition itself.” TwoHandsIndividualLeftSocialInterestSimpleLevelsResultsCasesSawsTrumpConflictLogicCompetitionCriticsInvisibleTraditionalObservationNarrativeCollectivesInsufficientNaturalistInvisible HandMarket Failure Author:Bob Frank
“Nobody had counseled women to expect the changes in bleeding patterns which are typically associated with IUD use, and they received no support from the health clinics with their problems. Because in traditional Hindu culture menstruation is associated with a variety of social taboos, prolonged menstrual bleeding produced conflicts within families.” UseProblemCultureSocialSupportConflictPatternsTraditionalVarietyTabooBleedingClinicMenstruationSocial Taboos Author:Ruth Simmons
“Besides problems of traditional societies, the Caucasus has to cope with quite a few unsettled territorial conflicts that also nurture authoritarian governmental structures.” ProblemConflictStructureTraditionalNurtureTerritorialCaucasus Author:Garry Kasparov
“I'll take a [Pavel] Chekhov comparison any day! He's of course one of the great masters at the short story form, and has helped define traditional conflict as we understand it.” StoriesFormCoursesMastersConflictTraditionalComparisonShort StoryChekhov Author:Alexander Weinstein
“I love the Russian absurdists - [Nikolai] Gogol,[Daniil] Kharms, and [Vladimir] Bulgakov. Even within the Russian experimentalists, there's a lineage of traditional narrative, conflict, and character development, which I find vital to my storytelling.” CharacterDevelopmentConflictStorytellingTraditionalNarrativeCharacter DevelopmentLineageGogol Author:Alexander Weinstein
“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.” StillsIdeasWholeUseCultureFoundSocialSecretGoneHusbandConflictMembersDecidedMethodAngrySettingTraditionalSettingsVarietyRegulationTabooBleedingFamily MembersFertilityClinicMenstruationSocial Taboos Author:Ruth Simmons
“The intellectual content of religions has always finally adapted itself to scientific and social conditions after they have become clear.... For this reason I do not think that those who are concerned about the future of a religious attitude should trouble themselves about the conflict of science with traditional doctrines.” ThinkingShouldReasonReligionSocialReligiousAttitudeClearTroubleConditionsConflictIntellectualConcernedDoctrineTraditionalAdaptedSocial Conditions Book:The Later Works, 1925-1953: 1929-1930 Source: The Later Works, 1925-1953: 1929-1930
“On the one hand, the idea of marriage and the sort of traditional family life repulses me. But on the other hand, I long for it, you know what I mean? I'm constantly in conflict with things. And it is because of my past and my upbringing and the journey that I've been on.” KnowsMeanLongIdeasHandsPastJourneyConflictTraditionalFamily LifeUpbringingMy PastTraditional Family Author:Madonna Ciccone