Conflict avoidance often causes greater conflict.

[E]mpathy - not squishy self-serving conflict avoidance - is the hand-maiden, not the enemy, of reason and intellectual inquiry.

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

Conflict can and should be handled constructively; when it is, relationships benefit. Conflict avoidance is *not* the hallmark of a good relationship. On the…

— Harriet B. Braiker

“The greater the conflict, the less visible the exposition.”

— John Yorke

Well, the truth is I'm very scared for people to dislike me. I have conflict-avoidance.

— Hans Rosling

“On every project, there are always areas that everyone wants to shy away from due to either the political environment or a desire for…

— Anonymous

“A conflict, in and of its self, is not destructive. It’s the lack of effective conflict resolution (along with conflict avoidance) that causes impasses…

— Kim Wilkerson

“If you avoid your truthful emotions and pain you will implode and contract into a diminished and feeble state.”

— Bryant McGill

“You cannot avoid what you fear because what you fear is inside of you.”

— Bryant McGill

“There is an enlightened way to flow with, in, and through conflict.”

— Bryant McGill

I am not in favour of the takeover of excellent and strategically important British companies by struggling foreign firms whose actions are fuelled by…

— David Sainsbury, Baron Sainsbury of Turville

America is not static. America is striving. And sometimes, America requires critique. Jingoism is an avoidance of realism. You can simultaneously love and be…

— Charles M. Blow

“People spend entire lifetimes trying to avoid the things that have already happened.”

— Silvia Hartmann

All work is the avoidance of harder work.

— James Richardson

“Collect yourself: to smother what you feel, recall to order, summon in one place; making, like Orpheus, a system against loss.”

— Ruth Padel

Unmarried couples should get married - that's an excellent tax avoidance measure, if a bit drastic.

— John Whiting