1. A conflict begins and ends in the hearts and minds of people, not in the hilltops. ~Amos Oz
2. Always forgive your enemies-nothing annoys them so much. ~Oscar Wilde
3. Anger blows out the lamp of the mind. ~Robert Ingersoll
4. Anger gets us into trouble. Pride keeps us there. ~Unknown
5. Anger is a great force. If you control it, it can be transmuted into a power which can move the whole world. ~Sivananda
6. Anger is never without a reason but seldom a good one. ~Benjamin Franklin
7. Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were. ~Cherie Carter-Scott
8. Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it. ~Seneca
9. Anyone can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not easy. ~Aristotle
10. But the greatest menace to our civilization today is the conflict between giant organized systems of self-righteousness -- each system only too delighted to find that the other is wicked -- each only too glad that the sins give it the pretext for still deeper hatred and animosity. ~Herbert Butterfield
11. 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
12. Conflict is the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. It instigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheeplike passivity, and sets us at noting and contriving. ~John Dewey
13. Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict. ~William Ellery Channing
14. I was angry with my friend; I told my wrath, my wrath did end. I was angry with my foe: I told it not, my wrath did grow. ~William Blake
15. I was angry with my friend; I told my wrath, my wrath did end. I was angry with my foe: I told it not, my wrath did grow. ~William Blake
16. If we could read the secret history of our enemies, We should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility. ~Longfellow
17. If we could read the secret history of our enemies, We should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility. ~Longfellow
18. Injustice can be eliminated, but human conflicts and natural limitations cannot be removed. The conflicts of social life and the limitations of nature cannot be controlled or transcended. They can, however, be endured and survived. It is possible for there to be a dance with life, a creative response to its intrinsic limits and challenges. Sharon Welch (A Feminist Ethic of Risk)
19. It is not who is right, but what is right, that is of importance. ~Thomas Huxley
20. It is not who is right, but what is right, that is of importance. ~Thomas Huxley
21. Men's natures are alike; it is their habits that carry them apart. ~Confucius
22. Men's natures are alike; it is their habits that carry them apart. ~Confucius
23. Our mission is to gain true discernment of the contraries, first as contraries, but then as poles of unity. ~Hermann Hesse
24. Our mission is to gain true discernment of the contraries, first as contraries, but then as poles of unity. ~Hermann Hesse
25. 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
26. Speak when you are angry--and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret. ~Laurence J. Peter
27. Speak when you are angry--and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret. ~Laurence J. Peter
28. The man who lives without conflict, who lives with beauty and love, is not frightened of death because to love is to die. ~Jiddu Krishnamurti
29. 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
30. Two things a man should never be angry at: what he can help, and what he cannot help. ~Thomas Fuller
31. Two things a man should never be angry at: what he can help, and what he cannot help. ~Thomas Fuller
32. We are not going to deal with the violence in our communities, our homes, and our nation, until we learn to deal with the basic ethic of how we resolve our disputes and to place an emphasis on peace in the way we relate to one another. ~Marian Wright Edelman
33. Where all think alike, no one thinks very much. ~Walter Lippmann
34. You can't shake hands with a clenched fist. ~Indira Gandhi