Personal Disputes Quotes

Wars come from egotism and selfishness. Every macrocosmic or world war has its origin in microcosmic wars going on inside millions and millions of individuals.

There's no room for petty grievances in politics.

I'm not going to grant Bobby Green his wishes by fighting him and responding to his nonsense.

I have always preferred conflict of individuals over the battle of extreme ideologies.

Never interfere in a girl and boy fight.

One of the interesting things about the Ozarks is you just about don't have street crime. It's strictly between people who know each other. It really isn't indiscriminate; it's kind of between themselves.

In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of dullness.

A small country town is not the place in which one would choose to quarrel with a wife; every human being in such places is a spy.

If we were all to chase every squirrel that comes running along in the form of a personal dispute or a mischaracterization of someone, or someone's integrity or intent, we'd be very busy doing that and not focusing on the government, on that which we need to reform internally.

Empathy is like a universal solvent. Any problem immersed in empathy becomes soluble. It is effective as a way of anticipating and resolving interpersonal problems, whether this is a marital conflict, an international conflict, a problem at work, difficulties in a friendship, political deadlocks, a family dispute, or a problem with a neighbor.

I'm sure you have arguments with your friends, but they don't get printed up and magnified in the papers.

Today, difficulties that a mere two or three years ago would have passed for private matters – for conflicts between students and teachers, workers and employers, or marital partners, for conflicts between individual – now claim political significance and ask to be justified in political terms. Psychology seems to turn to politics…