The Anatomy Of Peace: Resolving The Heart Of Conflict Quotes
"I’m not going!" Jenny screamed. "I don’t care what you say. I won’t!"
"This treatment program better do something to shape Cory up, Lou said to himself."
"You must be Cory. I’m glad to meet you, Son," al-Falah said. "I’ve been looking forward to it."
"We’re glad you’re here, Lou," al-Falah answered. "We know what it means for a mother to leave her child in the hands of another. It is an honor that you would give us the privilege."
"You’re a bigger loser as a parent than I’ll ever be as a son. And you’re just as much of a disaster at work."
"If you are going to invite change in him, there is something that first must change in you."
"I become an agent of change," Yusuf continued, "only to the degree that I begin to live to help things go right rather than simply to correct things that are going wrong."
"Seeing an equal person as an inferior object is an act of violence, Lou. It hurts as much as a punch to the face."
"I know what you said, but I won’t allow it. Not this time, Lou. The stakes are too high."
"See him as a person, see him as a person, you’ve got to keep seeing him as a person."
"No one, whatever their actions, can deprive us of the ability to choose our own way of being."
"My heart stirred in anger merely at the thought of Cory’s name. But there was a new feeling this night—a desire to be rid of the ache I felt regarding Cory rather than a desire to be rid of Cory himself."
"For everything. For not loving you as you have deserved to be loved. For not being there for you as you have always been there for me."
"The fact of being in the world with others, and not the idea of a separate self, is what is fundamental."
"We construct our boxes through a lifetime of choices. Every time we choose to pull away from and blame another, we necessarily feel justified in doing so."
"Having violated this truth, my entire perception now raced to make me justified."
"I couldn’t afford to lose Kate, but my pride had driven me over a cliff and blinded me to a truth I suspected was obvious to everyone else—that Kate, not Lou, was the prime mover behind Zagrum Company’s success."
"When you begin to see others as people, issues related to race, ethnicity, religion, and so on begin to look and feel different."
"If you see people of a particular race or culture as objects, your view of them is racist, whatever your color or lack of color or your power or lack of power."
"You end up seeing people who have hopes, dreams, fears, and even justifications that resemble your own."
"The solution to a problem at one level of the pyramid is always below that level of the pyramid."
"Most time and effort should be spent at the lower levels of the pyramid."
"If you are failing in your teaching, your correction will likely fail as well."
"Whenever I dehumanize another, I necessarily dehumanize all that is human—including myself."
"We separate from each other at our own peril."
"The Influence Pyramid will guide us in all our interactions—in our homes, in our workplaces, and in the world."