Well-managed,cooperative conflict contributes to the productivity and innovativeness oforganizations and the competence and well-being of people.

It is atrick among the dishonest to offer sacrifices that are not needed,or not possible, to avoid making those that are required.

Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerfuland the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.

Conflictbuilds character. Crisis defines it.

It is better to trust and sometimes be disappointed thanto be forever mistrusting and be right occasionally.

If you truly want honesty, don't ask questions you don't really want the answer to.

Have adialogue between the two opposing parts and you will find that they alwaysstart out fighting each other until we come to an appreciation of difference... a oneness and integration of the two opposingforces. Then the civil war is finished, and your e

Civilization has made the peasantry its pack animal.

It seemed rather incongruous that in a society of super sophisticatedcommunication, we often suffer from a shortage of listeners.

Embracingconflict can become a joy when we know that irritation and frustration canlead to growth and fascination.

We knowwhat happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run over.

All your fingernails grow with no convenient speed except broken one.