Kenneth E. Boulding Quotes

I do remember the whole thing as being very argumentative, hot blooded... a permanent state of friction between Jon and Chris, Chris and me, me and Jon.

Conflict drives fiction; no one wants to read a four-hundred-page novel in which everything rolls along smoothly.

Four personalities are bound to clash.

With a contained environment, there is the promise of friction. And that is where the drama comes from.

I obviously irritate people. I obviously antagonise them.

Oh my God, I don't think you can say anyone looks forward to controversy.

I don't like conflict.

Opposition is an inevitable reality of pastoral life.

My concern is that contention is becoming accepted as a way of life.

Conflict is entertaining and it's the stuff of drama - or comedy - but too much conflict, or conflict that's at too high a pitch can get annoying.

If too much harmony dominates, then aggression can get lost.

Two guys who don't like each other is a great fight.

When you're rivals, you can never be friends.

I am not anyone's enemy.

Letterman... he got his problems. We don't get along too well.

Opposition is not necessarily enmity; it is merely misused and made an occasion for enmity.

Rivalry doesn't help anybody.

I hesitate to get into the gutter with this guy.

He and I were about as compatible as a rat and a boa constrictor.

Enemies are so stimulating.

I'm not running around the world looking for ways to create hostilities.

I want to manufacture a feud.

There is no overt rivalry among our children.

Our friends, the enemy.

It was a pretty fierce rivalry. I'm just speaking for myself, but I think it was general through the clubs. We didn't like them, and they didn't like us.