“Tension between two or several social entities (individual, group or organizations) which arises from incompatibility of actual or desired responses.”

— Arie W. Kruglanski

Source: "Conflict and power." 1970, p. 70

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American psychologist 1939

Bertram Raven (1926) American psychologist

Source: "Conflict and power." 1970, p. 70

“The individual or the group which organizes any society, however social its intentions or pretensions, arrogates an inordinate portion of social privilege to itself.”

Reinhold Niebuhr (1892–1971) American protestant theologian

Source: (1932), pp.6-7

“Genetics is the study of similarity between relatives, and the problem of human genetics is that, in a species with a family and social structure and a taboo against manipulating individual life histories experimentally, there is a confounding between the similarity of relatives that arises from biological causes and the similarity that arise from social causes.”

Richard C. Lewontin (1929) American evolutionary biologist

Genes and Sexuality: An Exchange (1995)

“Whenever we seek to avoid the responsibility for our own behavior, we do so by attempting to give that responsibility to some other individual or organization or entity. But this means we then give away our power to that entity.”

M. Scott Peck (1936–2005) American psychiatrist

Source: The Road Less Traveled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values, and Spiritual Growth

“Competition for power is of two sorts: between organizations, and between individuals for leadership within an organization.”

Bertrand Russell (1872–1970) logician, one of the first analytic philosophers and political activist

Source: 1930s, Power: A New Social Analysis (1938), p. 165

“Creativity arises out of the tension between spontaneity and limitations”

Rollo May (1909–1994) US psychiatrist

Source: The Courage to Create (1975), Ch. 6 : On the Limits of Creativity, p. 115
Context: Creativity arises out of the tension between spontaneity and limitations, the latter (like the river banks) forcing the spontaneity into the various forms which are essential to the work of art or poem.