Conflict Quotes And Sayings

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“Peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives for responding to conflict — alternatives to passive or aggressive responses, alternatives to violence.”
– Dorothy Thompson

“You can’t shake hands with a clenched fist.”
– Indira Gandhi

“There are three ways of dealing with difference: domination, compromise, and integration. By domination only one side gets what it wants; by compromise neither side gets what it wants; by integration we find a way by which both sides may get what they wish.”
– Mary Parker Follett

“Where all think alike, no one thinks very much.”
– Walter Lippmann

“The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations.”
– David Friedman

“Negotiation in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree”
– Dean Acheson

“Start out with an ideal and end up with a deal.”
– Karl Albrecht

“Tactics mean doing what you can with what you have…tactics is the art of how to take and how to give.”
– Saul Alinsky

“Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict.”
– Saul Alinsky

“The Law of Win/Win says, “Let’s not do it your way or my way; let’s do it the best way”
– Greg Anderson

“Mediation and reconciliation work is about a profound quest for justice and social transformation. But at the same time, they are about service, solidarity, about exploring and rediscovering the human spirit that has been lost or shattered through human conflict, cruelty, ignorance and greed…”
– Hizkias Assefa

“The most difficult thing in any negotiation, almost, is making sure that you strip it of the emotion and deal with the facts.”
– Howard Baker

“If you start a conversation with the assumption that you are right or that you must win, obviously it is difficult to talk.”
– Wendell Berry

“There is no time left for anything but to make peace work a dimension of our every waking activity”
– Elise Boulding

“If you can’t go around it, over it, or through it, you had better negotiate with it.”
– Ashleigh Brilliant

“Meditation brings wisdom; lack of meditation leaves ignorance. Know well what leads you forward and what hold you back, and choose the path that leads to wisdom.”
– Buddha

“All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.”
– Edmund Burke

“Unless both sides win, no agreement can be permanent.”
– Jimmy Carter

“One of the most basic principles for making and keeping peace within and between nations. . . is that in political, military, moral, and spiritual confrontations, there should be an honest attempt at the reconciliation of differences before resorting to combat”
– Jimmy Carter

“Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.”
– William Ellery Channing

“The right tools for solving disputes within our community are precision instruments such as reason, communication, empathy, curiosity, and understanding. They are also the right tools for building a global civilization of peace and prosperity.”
– Paul K. Chappell

“If you believe in a security strategy — a strategy of more friends and fewer enemies, a strategy of greater cooperation and a strategy of keeping America better at home as we grow more diverse — we have to build the minds and hearts to build this kind of world.”
– Bill Clinton

“Only reverence can restrain violence — reverence for human life and the environment.”
– William Sloane Coffin

“Peace produced by suppression is neither natural nor desirable.”
– Anna Julia Cooper

“The reality today is that we are all interdependent and have to co-exist on this small planet. Therefore, the only sensible and intelligent way of resolving differences and clashes of interests, whether between individuals or nations, is through dialogue.”
– The Dalai Lama

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