Henry Rollins Quotes

If you have a problem and you can't find a solution, you meet again tomorrow and you keep talking until you find a solution. You can disagree with behavior or a particular position, but you do not resort to calling an opponent worthless.

Don't let any issue carry over to the next day. Talk about it all before you hit the bed.

If two guys want to go see each other, let them be in the middle, let them throw some punches, then break it up.

Accommodation is a willingness to maintain constructive relationship with others with whom one is in serious and even intractable disagreement. Social cooperation would come under impossible pressure if it always depended on strict agreement.

Rachel, we've been over this. This is what I do," he said, crumbs of whiten cheese falling from the knife. "Find a way for your lofty, unrealistic ideals to deal with it.

I'm tired of fighting...

When it's impossible, it's better to stoop to compromise, without resisting and without complaining. People who complain are selfish.

So much for playing nice.Tired, I let my eyes shut while they argued, hoping I didn’t die in the interim and make the problem moot. I wasn’t ever going to get my water. Ever.

There are few situations in life that cannot be resolved promptly, and to the satisfaction of all concerned, by either suicide, a bag of gold, or thrusting a despised antagonist over a precipice on a dark night

We still seek to solve conflicts with 'judgement' instead of designing the way forwards.

Look, I realize both of you could happily strangle each other across the table, but I don't think that's the most effective use of our time, and frankly, I don't think I have enough money to tip the waitress for that kind of clean-up. And look, here's lunch. Let's eat that instead of eachother.

We accepted this war for an object, a worthy object, and the war will end when that object is attained. Under God, I hope it never will until that time.

Conflict is like cancer; early detection increases the possibility of a healthy outcome.

I hate to be a kicker, I always long for peace, But the wheel that does the squeaking, is the one that gets the grease.

If you want to bring an end to long-standing conflict, you have to be prepared to compromise. If either or both sides insist on getting everything that they want - that is to say 100 percent of their demands to be met, then there can never be a settlement.

Conflict is inevitable but combat is optional.

We have to see conflict as thinking and then get really good at it.

There's no way to have a peace agreement unless the mediator or negotiator looks at both sides from an equal basis.

I don't have problems with people, because if I do, I address it.

But there is nothing to be done till a horse's head is settled.

The only thing you think of is that you are in the middle and that you've got to find a way to stop it.

To observe people in conflict is a necessary part of a child's education. It helps him to understand and accept his own occasional hostilities and to realize that differing opinions need not imply an absence of love.

My first choice was to work it out with Larry Brown. I needed Larry and I gave him 50 million bucks. This is a situation that I'm in and I'll handle it and I'll make it work.

I'm interested in conflict and confrontation.

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.