Association Quote by Thomas Jefferson

Every individual is a meeting ground for many different allegiances, and sometimes these loyalties conflict with one another and confront the person who harbors…

— Amin Maalouf

War is then not a relationship between one man and another, but a relationship between one State and another, in which individuals are enemies…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Usually when a lot of men get together, it's called a war.

— Mel Brooks

“you can have no conflict, without being yourselves the aggressors”

— Abraham Lincoln

It hardly needs saying that such mutualistic communities will also be plagued by conflict. Conflict is at the very heart of life, resulting not…

— Benjamin Nelson

The problem is to find a form of association which will defend and protect with the whole common force the person and goods of…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“No man can rightfully be required to join, or support, an association whose protection he does not desire.”

— Lysander Spooner

A man's conflicts represent what he 'really' is.

— Erik Erikson

“Fights between individuals, as well as governments and nations, invariably result from misunderstandings in the broadest interpretation of this term. Misunderstandings are always caused…

— Nikola Tesla

“So that in the nature of man, we find three principal causes of quarrel: First, Competition; Secondly, Dissidence; Thirdly, Glory. The first, maketh men…

— Thomas Hobbes

The quarrels of friends are the opportunities of foes.

— Aesop

The original of all great and lasting societies consisted not in the mutual good will men had toward each other, but in the mutual…

— Thomas Hobbes