Margaret Heffernan Quotes

I'm interested in conflict and confrontation.

If we aren't going to be afraid of conflict, we have to see it as thinking.

I've got a good imagination, so I can see someone arguing over a parking ticket and imagine they're getting a divorce or something.

I've learned It 's better to address conflicts head on and then move on.

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.

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

Our first and most pressing problem is how to do away with warfare as a method of solving conflicts between national groups or between groups within a society who have different views about how the society is to be run. If you look back, you will see that warfare was an invention, just as ways of handling government or taxes are inventions. You will see, too, that once people use an invention they go on using it until they find another which they think is superior.

You're either in a conflict or you're not in a conflict.

In every conflict we make mistakes. The trick is to fix them.

Every fight is a new fight.

Fighting is not my life.

Every fight, I have to learn something.

Every fight has its rough spots, and I'm always looking for improve every facet.

Fighting lives and dies; you can't fight forever.

If two irreconcilable elements are struggling with each other, the solution lies in force. There has never been any other solution in history, and there never will be.

You ask when is it that you can say yes we have had enough. It is enough revenge and I think now we have restored the equilibrium. It never happens!

the mediation of internal conflicts can be resolved by linkages with other problems.

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

I've got a knife and I want to talk to you I've got a prayer and I want to carve it to you I've got no chance, that's why I'm looking to you O Lord, ride with me

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.

I'm no longer afraid of conflict, and I don't think conflict is a bad thing.

A reasonable being might think that he and I could find some common ground; have a cup of coffee and compare our Passengers, exchange trade talk and chitchat about dismemberment techniques. But no: Doakes wanted me dead. And I found it difficult to share his point of view.

I often write about reconciling. Reconciling, or maybe half-reconciling between antagonists, between people who are deadly enemies.

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.