“It is doubly chimerical to build peace on economic foundations which, in turn, rest on the systematic cultivation of greed and envy, the very forces which drive men into conflict.” MenTurnsForceEconomicConflictFoundationGreedEnvySystematicCultivationSmall Is Beautiful Book:SMALL IS BEAUTIFUL Source: SMALL IS BEAUTIFUL
“The self must be a tense bow. It must struggle with opposites rather than harmonize them, rather than turn the tension over to the great instruments of last manhood the skilled bow unbenders and Jesuits of our days, the psychiatrists, who, in the same spirit and as part of the same conspiracy of modernity as the peace virtuosos, reduce conflict.” SelfLastsSpiritTurnsStruggleConflictOppositesInstrumentsTensionConspiracyBowsManhoodTenseModernityPsychiatristJesuit Book:Closing of the American Mind Source: Closing of the American Mind
“We have the potential to help people out of poverty, out of disease, out of slavery and out of conflict. Too often we turn the other way because we think there's nothing we can do.” PeopleThinkingWayHelpingTurnsCan DoPovertyConflictDiseaseSlavery Author:Alicia Keys
“The most effective way to close down the human mind and to manipulate its sense of self is to program into it some form of dogma. A dogma will always vehemently defend itself from other information and repel any alternative opinion which contradicts its narrow, solidified view. Dogmas become a person's sense of security and means of retaining power, and humanity tends to cling to both until its knuckles turn white. Dogmas take endless forms, and when you can persuade different people to hold opposing dogmas, the manipulation of conflict and control through "divide and rule" becomes easy.” PeopleWayMindHumansMeanPersonsDifferentSelfFormHumanityTurnsEasyWhiteViewsOpinionSecurityInformationConflictProgramEndlessAlternativesManipulationHuman MindDividesDogmaManipulateDifferent PeoplesOpposingSense Of SelfKnucklesRetaining Author:David Icke
“I like people to be surprised by the turn of events. I don't want things just to be pat and formulaic. If there's some sort of internal combustion in the character or a desire to change the way things are going, that makes for conflict, which is the essence of drama.” PeopleIfsWayWantCharacterDesireTurnsEventsDramaConflictEssenceInternalsCombustionDesire To Change Author:Miranda Richardson
“When caught in conflict and blame - make a U-turn and shift your attention from blaming thoughts to what's going on emotionally in your body.” BodyTurnsAttentionConflictBlameCaughtYour Body Author:Tara Brach
“William R. Polk discusses the Spanish guerrilla war against Napoleon [ Bonaparte] and other cases where the conflict turns into a political war, and the invader, who usually has overwhelming power, loses because they can't fight the political war.” WarPoliticalTurnsFightingLosesCasesConflictOverwhelmingInvadersGuerrillasBonaparte Author:Noam Chomsky
“I would say I need two things: the first one is to be objective in every statement he could make regarding any conflict around the world, including Syria. The second one is not to turn Secretary-General office into a part or branch of the State Department of the United States.” WorldNeedsFirstsTwoStatesTurnsUnitedUnited StatesConflictOfficeIncludingStatementsObjectivesAround The WorldBranchesTwo ThingsDepartmentSecretarySyria Author:Bashar al-Assad
“America is the only superpower. But our leadership is being tested in the Middle East, and some of the things that we have done in the Middle East are contributing to a potential explosion region-wide. And if that explosion gets out of hand, we may end up being bogged down for many years to come in a conflict that will be profoundly damaging to our capacity to exercise our power, to address the problems implicit in this global awakening, and we may face a world in which much of the world turns away from us, seeks its own equilibrium, but probably slides into a growing chaos.” IfsWorldYearsMayEndsDoneProblemHandsAmericaFacesTurnsGrowingMiddleExerciseConflictCapacityChaosWideEastAwakeningAddressesRegionsMiddle EastTestedSlidesExplosionsEquilibriumContributingSuperpowerImplicit Author:Zbigniew Brzezinski
“Now, you lose something in your life, or you come into a conflict, and there's gonna come a time that you're gonna know: There was a reason for that. And at the end of your life, all the things you thought were periods, they turn out to be commas. There was never a full stop in any of it.” KnowsEndsReasonTurnsLosesPeriodsConflict Author:Matthew McConaughey
“The conflict will always beyond ur strength.The enemy always pushes us beyond our personal, inbred, preset limits concerning how far we'll go for God:"Here's how far I'm going to love,this is how many times I'll turn the other cheek."The test kills the limits of our humanity,til we're like Christ in everything We're left with a choice:Become Christlike or gradually shrivel into superficial hypocrites: angry people who have stopped walking with God, who blame others for our bitterness.” PeopleHumanityTurnsChoicesLeftChristEnemyWalkingConflictLimitsTestsBlameAngryBitternessCheeksSuperficialHypocriteWalking With GodTurn The Other CheekInbreds Author:Francis Frangipane
“You see, a conflict always begins with an issue - a difference of opinion, an argument. But by the time it turns into a war, the issue doesn't matter anymore, because now it's about one thing and one thing only: how much each side hates the other.” WarMatterHateTurnsSidesDifferencesOpinionIssuesOne ThingConflictArgumentUnwindDifferences Of Opinion Book:Unwind Source: Unwind
“Sport is where an entire life can be compressed into a few hours, where the emotions of a lifetime can be felt on an acre or two of ground, where a person can suffer and die and rise again on six miles of trails through a New York City park. Sport is a theater where sinner can turn saint and a common man become an uncommon hero, where the past and the future can fuse with the present. Sport is singularly able to give us peak experiences where we feel completely one with the world and transcend all conflicts as we finally become our own potential.” MenWorldGivingFeelsPersonsTwoAblePastSufferingDiesTurnsFeltSportsHoursCommonEmotionCitiesNew YorkHeroConflictSixTheaterLifetimeSaintMilesParksSinnerMotivational SportsNew York CityTrailsInspirational SportsUncommonCommon ManAcresFuseShort SportsFunny Inspirational SportsPeak ExperiencesCity Parks Author:George A. Sheehan
“The doctrine that the world is made up of objects whose existence is independent of human consciousness turns out to be in conflict with quantum mechanics and with facts established by experiment.” WorldHumansMadeFactsTurnsExistenceConsciousnessObjectsConflictIndependentPhysicsExperimentsDoctrineQuantumMechanicQuantum PhysicsQuantum MechanicsHuman Consciousness Author:Bernard d'Espagnat