“The purpose of formulating [a] conflict as a game is not that of resolving the conflict by 'solving the game.' It is that of displaying the structure of the conflict and thereby exposing features of it that may be concealed by rhetoric. In particular, appreciation of the peculiar structure of some of the so-called mixed - motive conflicts represented nonzero-sum games may change the conflicting parties' perception of their situation.” MayPurposeGamesPartySituationParticularConflictPerceptionStructureAppreciationFeaturesMotivePeculiarRhetoricConcealedExposing Author:Anatol Rapoport
“We believe that the developing crisis in the capitalist system, by which we mean both economic stagnation, and the social and political conflicts to which it gives rise, makes it possible to think in terms of developing a sizeable and serious revolutionary socialist party in a way that was not possible 20 or even 10 years ago.” ThinkingWayGivingYearsBelieveMeanPoliticalSocialTermPartyEconomicSeriousConflictYears AgoCrisisDevelopingRevolutionaryCapitalistSocialistStagnationSocialist Party Author:Anthony Crosland
“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
“The conservatives have already accepted a large part of the collectivist creed-a creed that has governed policy for so long that many of its institutions have come to be accepted as a matter of course and have become a source of pride to "conservative" parties who created them. Here the believer in freedom cannot but conflict with the conservative and take an essentially radical position, directed against popular prejudices, entrenched positions, and firmly established privileges. Follies and abuses are no better for having long been established principles of folly.” LongMatterCoursesPartyPrinciplesPolicyPositionSourcePrideConflictAbusePrejudiceInstitutionsPrivilegeConservativeBelieverAcceptedRadicalFollyCreedsConservative Party Author:Friedrich August von Hayek
“The House Of Commons has never been a tea-party. It consists of strong-minded, often very idealistic people, who are trying to accomplish something for our country. We are inheritors of an adversarial system and that, in itself, fosters conflict.” PeopleTryingCountryHouseStrongPartyConflictAccomplishOur CountryTeaTea PartyIdealisticHouse Of CommonsStrong Minded Book:The House of Commons at Work Source: The House of Commons at Work
“Borderlines create the vicious circles they fear most. They become angry and drive the relationship to the breaking point, then switch to a posture of helplessness and contrition, beg for reconciliation. If both parties are equally enmeshed, chaos and conflict become the soul of the relationship.” IfsSoulPartyConflictAngryChaosCirclesViciousReconciliationHelplessnessPostureBorderlinePoint BreakVicious CirclesContrition Author:Theodore Millon
“Neither party expected for the war, the magnitude, or the duration, which it has already attained. Neither anticipated that the cause of the conflict might cease with, or even before, the conflict itself should cease.” ShouldWarMightCausesPartyConflictSlaveryExpectedCeaseCivil WarMagnitudeAmerican Civil WarDurationInaugural AddressAmerican SlaveryCauses Of War Author:Abraham Lincoln
“Constant conflict is actually often good politics. Because the more you can inflame your supporters the more likely they are to show up at election day. And if they're more inflamed than the other side, even if the other side has more people agreeing with it, you'll win, because your crowd will show up.” PeopleIfsShowsRealityPoliticalPoliticsWinningSidesPartyDemocracyConflictElectionStrategyConstantCrowdsIdeologyVotingFree SpeechSupporterPolitical PartiesCivilityElection Day Author:William J. Clinton
“Conflict may be defined as a situation of competition in which the parties are aware of the incompatibility of potential future positions, and in which each party wishes to occupy a position that is incompatible with the wishes of the other.” MayWishPartySituationPositionConflictCompetitionDefinedIncompatibility Author:Kenneth E. Boulding
“Negotiation in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree.” InspirationalPartyConflictAgreeAssumingClassicResolutionDisagreeAnxiousNegotiationDiplomacyDisputesDisagreementDiplomaticDiplomatsNegotiatingWin WinAgree To Disagree Author:Dean Acheson
“I never sued anybody, I never fought anybody or was in conflict or contention with any other party in a legal way. I feel that it hurts people, it hurts their families.” PeopleWayFeelsHurtPartyConflictIt HurtsContention Author:Jack Kirby