“Great ideas often receive violent opposition from mediocre minds.”
Albert Einstein

“There are two dilemmas that rattle the human skull: How do you hang on to someone who won’t stay? And how do you get rid of someone who won’t go?”
Danny DeVito, The War of the Roses

“Truth springs from argument amongst friends.”
David Hume

“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

“The torment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that the self is in prison, its vital force and “mangled mind” leaking away in lonely, wasteful self-conflict.”
Elizabeth Drew

“Don’t be afraid of opposition. Remember, a kite rises against; not with; the wind.”
Hamilton Mabie

“Whenever you’re in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude.”
William James

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

“No matter how you seem to fatten on a crime, there can never be good for the bee which is bad for the hive.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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

“Conflict is inevitable, but combat is optional.”
Max Lucade

“Conflict is the beginning of consciousness.”
M. Esther Harding

“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

“A conflict begins and ends in the hearts and minds of people, not in the hilltops.”
Amos Oz

“Conflict cannot survive without your participation.”
Wayne Dyer

“I believe in getting into hot water. I think it keeps you clean.”
Gilbert Keith Chesterton

“You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.”
Albert Einstein