Acknowledgment Quote by Stephen Jay Gould

I despair of persuading people to drop the familiar and comforting tactic of dichotomy. Perhaps, instead, we might expand the framework of debates by…

— Stephen Jay Gould

The really difficult moral issues arise, not from a confrontation of good and evil, but from a collision between two goods

— Irving Kristol

“Conflict and differences. People share so much in common, yet are so magnificently different. They think differently; they have different and sometimes competing values,…

— RosettaBooks

“Dichotomies are most mischevious when they arbitrarily separate parts of a highly interrelated and complex system.”

— David Ehrenfeld

“Sometimes complex and difficult moral choices are decided less by reason and by right than by sentiment.”

— Dean Koontz

I always try to look at conflicts from as many different angles as is humanly possible, and in a lot of ways there is…

— Joe Rogan

“True pluralism, as Berlin understands it, is much more tough-minded and intellectually bold: it rejects the view that all conflicts of values can be…

— Isaiah Berlin

When you are in deep conflict about something, sometimes the most trivial thing can tip the scales.

— Ethel Merman

Our characterization of collective folly is that sound judgment is not feasible when there is forced or false agreement in groups. We also show…

— Alan Briskin

In any conflict the boundaries of behavior are defined by the party that cares the least about morality

— Anonymous

Ignoring moralities is always undesirable, but doing so systematically is reallyworrisome.

— Mohammad Khatami

“While it’s easier to avoid confrontations in the short run, the consequences of doing so can be massively destructive in the long term. It’s…

— Ray Dalio