Being Quote by Ariana DeBose

“...the fight that political philosophers have always identified as the central conflict in human history: that between the individual and society. Thus far, scholars…

— Thaddeus Russell

“Political parties are on the hunt to search and destroy each other, as though we were involved in some kind of enemy combat, rather…

— John Lewis

Even the art of quoting is a conservative art most of the time, in order to propel the same ideas and the same self-congratulatory…

— Fady Joudah

“...that ambiguous area of culture where something unfailingly political, though separate from the political choices of the day, infiltrates judgment and language.”

— Roland Barthes

“All concepts of politics, of whatever kind, are about conflict──how to contain it, or abolish it.”

— Ralph Miliband

In the world of speeches and orations, especially historical ones, the persistent misquotation is understandable. You hear a speech. You misremember or mishear a…

— Maria Konnikova

“Politics is an ongoing civil war designed to pit one against the other that would normally be friends”

— Johnny Flora

“A double standard, albeit unintended, violates our integrity and damages our credibility. In a global society, conflict is rarely the fault of only one…

— Karen Armstrong

“The new politics was not the art of the compromise but the art of conflict.”

— Michael Wolff

In the middle '50s, I had written that the point would come, inevitably, at which the relationship between the cause of conflict and political…

— Henry A. Kissinger

What people often mean by getting rid of conflict is getting rid of diversity, and it is of the utmost importance that these should…

— Mary Parker Follett

Conflicts are never caused in any simple way by identity, culture or economics. Where resources are scarce, or there are strong historical memories of…

— Geoff Mulgan