“To resolve conflicts, excessive ambitions and one's own fears and aspirationis must be sacrificed.”

“Journalism must have been very different before people resolved so many of their conflicts with bullets.”

“Fairy tales begin with conflict because we all begin our lives with conflict. We are all misfit for the world, and somehow we must fit in, fit in with other people, and thus we must invent or find the means through communication to satisfy as well as resolve conflicting desires and instincts.”

“To rise above the conflicting desires of others, there must be no conflict about your own.”

“Being able to resolve conflicts peacefully is one of the greatest strengths we can give our children.”

“But it is not necessarily the case that liberal democracy is the political system best suited to resolving social conflicts per se. A democracy's ability to peacefully resolve conflicts is greatest when those conflicts arise between socalled "interest groups" that share a larger, pre-existing consensus on the basic values or rules of the game, and when the conflicts are primarily economic in nature. But there are other kinds of non-economic conflicts that are far more intractable, having to do with issues like inherited social status and nationality, that democracy is not particularly good at resolving.”