“While there are many causes for which a state goes to war, its fundamental object can be epitomized as that of ensuring the continuance of its policy - in face of the determination of the opposing state to pursue a contrary policy. In the human will lies the source and mainspring of conflict.” HumansWarStatesFacesLyingCausesMilitaryPolicyObjectsSourceConflictDeterminationFundamentalsContraryPursueOpposingHuman WillContinuance Author:B. H. Liddell Hart
“Every improvement in our conceptions of justice, as well as in the machinery for the administration of justice, whereby a closer approximation to exact justice may be secured, will make for social peace, though the mere adjudication of conflicting interests will not remove the conflicts themselves nor their cause. That lies deeper than legislatures or courts can probe.” WellsMayLyingSocialCausesInterestJusticeConflictCourtMereDeeperImprovementAdministrationRemoveConceptionMachineryLegislatureSecuredApproximationAdministration Of Justice Book:Essays in Social Justice Source: Essays in Social Justice
“Without culture there can be no growth; without exertion, no acquisition; without friction, no polish; without labor, no knowledge; without action, no progress; and without conflict, no victory. The man who lies down a fool at night, hoping that he will waken wise in the morning, will rise up in the morning as he laid down in the evening.” MenActionLyingNightCultureGrowthMorningWiseProgressHe ManFoolVictoryConflictLaborEveningPolishAcquisitionExertionFriction Author:Frederick Douglass