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Within-group conflict is always personal and emotional - even if it begins with impersonal issues. -- Kenneth Kaye
In accounts of men in battle, there is an incredible adrenaline rush from group-versus-group conflict. The fervor and passion of partisans is clearly rewarding; and if it's rewarding, it involves dopamine; and if it involves dopamine, then it is potentially addictive. -- Jonathan Haidt
To a considerable degree, all minority groups suffer from the same state of marginality with its haunting consequences of insecurity, conflict, and irritation. -- Gordon W. Allport
Man is a competitive creature, and the seeds of conflict are built deep into our genes. We fought each other on the savannah and only survived against great odds by organising ourselves into groups which would have had a common purpose, giving morale and fortitude. -- Robert Winston
Life, it is true, can be grasped in all its confused futility merely by opening one's eyes and sitting passively, a spectator on the stands of history - but to understand the social processes and conflicts, the interplay between individual and group, even the physicality of human experience, we have need of small-scale models. -- Will Self
Conflict can be healthy within a collaborative group, as long as everyone sticks to the issues and things don't get personal. -- Eunice Parisi-Carew
The conflict between the need to belong to a group and the need to be seen as unique and individual is the dominant struggle of adolescence. -- Jeanne Elium

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