Conflict

• “He who understands the limits of life knows how easy it is to procure enough to remove the pain of want and make the whole life complete and perfect. Hence he has no longer any need of things which are not to be won save by labor and conflict.”

• “All human conflict is ultimately theological.”

• “There are … no conflicts of interest among rational men, men who do not desire the unearned.”

• “No matter how frequently you visit the realm of dreams, you will inevitably confront the unvarnished truth. However, our truth is so much bitter that not even the entirety of the world's sugar can sweeten it.”

• “A man who only becomes a husband brings pain to his parents, and a man who only becomes a son brings pain to his wife.”

• “… the ego's need to be periodically in conflict with something or someone in order to strengthen its sense of separation between me and the other, without which it cannot survive.”

Quotes via Wikiquote (CC BY-SA), each with its original source.

Overview

From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Conflict across IJR

Open questions

what is it called when a lawyer cannot take on a case because of potential conflicting interests

On Watch

Brooks and Marcus on the Iran conflict becoming a 'forever war'PBS NewsHour