Avoidance of Conflict Quotes

Britain and France had to choose between war and dishonour. They chose dishonour. They will have war.

I don't like to bring attention to myself. I don't like to make a scene.

I differ in my ideas from most of our people on the subject of retaliation. Sometimes I know it to be necessary, but it should not be resorted to at all times, and in our case policy dictates that it should be avoided whenever possible.

Confrontation is something that I accept as part of the project though not its purpose.

If you're talking to a man who wouldn't fight with you under any circumstances whatsoever, then you're talking to someone for whom you have absolutely no respect.

The passive aggressive arguer comes armed with tricky tactics. They cannot take the risk that they might be wrong: their self-esteem is too intertwined with their opinions. It is more important to affirm their rightness, and sense of superiority, than to arrive at the truth.

It's not my intention to have anything at all to do with violence.

Contempt is the weapon of the weak and a defense against one's own despised and unwanted feelings.

My mum was a peacemaker, and in personal things I tend to do that, because I can't deal with personal conflict. I find that horrible.

Every time we are confronted with a new revolution we take to the opium pipes of our own propaganda.

The way we always want to compromise between everything, I think that's really Belgian. I think I'm really Belgian for that, because I never make choices. That's my problem, actually.

My preference is not to fight a Mexican.

Although Salinger had long since cut me out of his life completely and made it plain that he had nothing but contempt for me, the thought of becoming the object of his wrath was more than I felt ready to take on.

People who are prone to anxiety are nearly always people-pleasers who fear conflict and negative feelings like anger. When you feel upset, you sweep your problems under the rug because you don't want to upset anyone. You do this so quickly and automatically that you're not even aware you're doing it.

You never want conflict. But sometimes conflict is inevitable.

Ironically, people who suppress the mini-confrontations for fear of conflict tend to have huge conflicts later, which can lead to separation, precisely because they let minor problems fester. On the other hand, people who address the mini-conflicts head-on in order to straighten things out tend to have the great, long-lasting relationships.

The great Chinese classics have always said that it's better not to fight; that the clever man achieves his ends without violence; that a battle delayed is better than a battle fought.

Men should give enemies leisure to flee.

I have gotten to a point in my life where I don't want to have dinner with someone I don't like.

A quarrel is quickly settled when deserted by one party; there is no battle unless there be two.

I've never pulled out of a fight.

I'm a yes person. I'm too concerned with trying to make too many people happy.

I've never been one who wanted any type of attention, good nor bad.

There is only one way under high heaven to get the best of an argument—and that is to avoid it.

We all have those times in relationships, whether it's work or personal or family or whatever it is, where there's something that's eating at you and eating at you, and you want to say it to the person that you care about the most, but you're so afraid it's going to destroy everything. Like the fear of destruction keeps one from saying what they want to say - when, in actuality, by not saying it, things get worse. Because it's the entropy, the leak that doesn't get fixed.